{"id":214018,"date":"2016-07-21T16:47:30","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T20:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/07\/21\/is_it_curtains_for_cruz_s_career_\/"},"modified":"2017-07-11T10:57:03","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T14:57:03","slug":"is_it_curtains_for_cruz_s_career_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/07\/21\/is_it_curtains_for_cruz_s_career_\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Curtains for Cruz\u2019s Career?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH:\u00a0 By the way, folks, here\u2019s another just a little throwaway question.\u00a0 Does it surprise you that somebody saying “vote your conscience” would be booed practically out of an arena?\u00a0 Vote your conscience. \u00a0Boo!\u00a0 Vote your conscience.\u00a0 Boo!\u00a0 Leave!\u00a0 Get out!\u00a0 I mean, I know I\u2019m not including context here, but just stop and think of this for a second.\u00a0 Cruz\u2019s message is vote your conscience, and all hell rained down on him.<\/p>\n

Now, the context is that vote your conscience, I know, happens to be a rallying cry for many of the Never Trumpers. And further context is that vote your conscience could be code language for how in the world can you possibly vote for this guy Trump if you have a conscience?\u00a0 And it\u2019s obviously, I think, what a lot of people thought Cruz meant, and that\u2019s why the boos. But just without any context, somebody says vote your conscience and gets booed.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s where I think Cruz could have done better.\u00a0 And, look, armchair quarterbacking, morning-after hindsight\u2019s always cheap and easy, but I think it\u2019s an important point.\u00a0 Last night Cruz complained that freedom was under assault.\u00a0 And he\u2019s right.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t a complaint; it was a warning; it was an acknowledgment.\u00a0 But what he didn\u2019t do is make the clear difference that a Clinton and Trump presidency would make to freedom itself and to the Constitution itself.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t until this morning, under intense questioning from the Texas delegation that Cruz said he wasn\u2019t gonna vote for Hillary. \u00a0He didn\u2019t say that last night.\u00a0 He left it for implication, or inference.\u00a0 I think had he drawn this comparison, he acknowledged that there\u2019s no contest between Trump and Hillary when it comes to voting to preserve and expand freedom, he didn\u2019t explicitly do that.\u00a0 Hillary Clinton\u2019s a clear and present danger to the Constitution.\u00a0 And Cruz, a lot of speakers made the point last night, but Cruz didn\u2019t.\u00a0 Not expressly.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, Cruz was asked about his pledge.\u00a0 They all took the pledge on the same stage last August to support the eventually nominee.\u00a0 And they asked Cruz about that, the Texas delegation.\u00a0 And he said that that day was “abrogated” when this became personal.\u00a0 “The day that pledge was abrogated was the day this became personal.”\u00a0 He says, “I\u2019m not gonna get into criticizing or attacking Donald Trump, but I\u2019m just going to give you this response.<\/p>\n

“I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father.”\u00a0 And he mentioned this a couple of other times and used the words, “I\u2019m not gonna be a puppy dog here in servitude to a guy accuses my dad of assisting in the JFK assassination.”\u00a0 And again, in saying that, it just takes everything that Cruz said the night before in his speech off the table.\u00a0 We eventually got the big reveal.<\/p>\n

Everybody said, “Gee, what\u2019s that? What\u2019s going on? What the hell here?”<\/p>\n

All this in-depth analysis, and it boils down to that.<\/p>\n

Some of the in-depth analysis was, you know, there\u2019s a lot of Never Trumpers out there, and the Never Trumpers, they\u2019re a loyal bunch, and Cruz wants to be considered the leader. Cruz wants to be the guy. He wants to be the guy that\u2019s considered the number one, consistent Never Trumper.\u00a0 And that\u2019s who he was playing to last night, at the expense of party loyalty.\u00a0 The Texas delegation was not happy.<\/p>\n