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Rush Limbaugh said today on his radio show that Donald Trump’s attack on Ted Cruz over the weekend, calling him a ‘maniac’ given the way he’s dealt with McConnell and others in the Senate, is not an attack a genuine conservative would make and it has raised a red flag for him: While I would certainly vote for Trump if he were the nominee, I’ve never thought he was a genuine conservative. But I do think he’s tried in some ways to bridge his positions with conservatism and I think he generally leans in that direction. At the end of...

Via MFP, six months after the birth of Trumpmania, this is what finally raised a red flag? Trump arguing that Cruz is a bit of a “maniac” for taking on the entire Senate when it might pose a problem for a president who’ll need friends in Congress to help him pass his agenda? Guy Benson wrote this last week about Trump’s many admirers in conservative talk radio: Here’s how the coy game has worked: When Trump is right, they praise him. Fine. When Trump is factually wrong, while making an argument that may contain a “larger truth,” they justify his...

First, if you haven't read Guy's piece about the Trump phenomenon, please do. You can find it here. During his show today Rush Limbaugh, who has been an avid supporter of Donald Trump to the point of equating those opposed to him to Hamas Islamic terrorists, criticized him for attacking conservative Ted Cruz as a "maniac" on the campaign trail. "One thing here, I'm questioning the way Trump went after Cruz here, calling him a maniac, refusing to work with people in the Senate, the reason I am focusing on that folks is because it's so unlike Trump. I mean, that's a...

Rush Limbaugh today criticized Donald Trump for his attacks on Ted Cruz, but upon being informed the media thinks he turned on Cruz, Limbaugh insisted he did no such thing. In case you missed it, after Trump called Cruz a "mania" yesterday who can't get anything done in Congress, Limbaugh today criticized him for echoing the establishment. He said, "Any of you who are holding out hope that Trump is a genuine conservative... a genuine conservative would not go after Cruz this way." Well, during his show, Limbaugh founds out the media already picked up his criticism. He clarified, "I...