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RUSH: The Indiana primary is coming up next week. Interesting, too, the way this is shaping up because what does Trump do? Trump goes out and gets Bobby Knight. Bobby Knight, one of the biggest people in Indiana. One of the most beloved, respected, and, by the way, a fighter. If Bobby Knight didn\u2019t agree with the refs, he\u2019d throw a chair at \u2019em all across the court if he had to. <\/p>\n

So here\u2019s Bobby Knight talking about the guy that can get it done, and that\u2019s Donald Trump. Same day that Ted Cruz announced Carly Fiorina as his vice presidential pick. So you have two strategies here, and they\u2019re on display side by side. Cruz announces a VP pick, Carly Fiorina, strategic for California there, I think. And also an attempt to change the narrative. And Trump appears on stage in Indiana with Bobby Knight, which is to keep up the momentum from the massive sweep of the Tuesday Northeastern primaries and then win Indiana and pretty much close it out, set up California. <\/p>\n

So Cruz, his strategy is delegate strategic, Carly Fiorina in California trying to hold off Trump in Indiana. And Trump is going for voter intensity with Bobby Knight in Indiana and using celebrity and the power of celebrity to change the narrative and get people all hyped up for his side of things. Cruz is obviously the master of the inside game, Trump playing the people\u2019s choice card here. <\/line><\/p>\n

And of course the media, this is the thing, folks, sad to say, the media\u2019s always gonna gravitate to the guy on stage with the celebrity. It\u2019s the way it is in America today. So Bobby Knight, big celebrity — by the way, the media hates Bobby Knight. You should know this. The sports Drive-Bys hate Bobby Knight. They hate him \u2019cause he won and he did kowtow to them, and I don\u2019t think Bobby Knight broadcasts whatever his political affiliations are. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s known as choosing what he thinks is the best guy for the job, whether he\u2019s Republican-Democrat, liberal-conservative, I don\u2019t know that it\u2019s widely known, and if it is, it\u2019s just because he\u2019s been in Indiana for so long and so many people know him, but he doesn\u2019t really broadcast it one way or the other. But the media will gravitate to the man of the people, the celebrity in his own right.<\/p>\n

The insider game is not sexy, \u2019cause you don\u2019t see it. I mean, the insider game is Cruz working these state conventions for delegates, and nobody sees that, and even if anybody did, it wouldn\u2019t be exciting to cover. “Our cameras are live now at it San Cordoba state party convention where Ted Cruz is wooing local carpenters who might end up as delegates.” Nobody\u2019s gonna watch that. It\u2019s not exciting. So you got Bobby Knight out there. But it\u2019s countered a little bit with Carly Fiorina. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: John in San Diego, I appreciate your patience. You are next, sir. Great to have you with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks for taking my call. I have a question on the vice president pick. I think it\u2019s a brilliant stroke for Ted Cruz as far as, you know, an outsider businessperson in Carly Fiorina. And, you know, how are they gonna go after her, you know? Are they gonna, like Sarah Palin, Saturday Night Live, are they gonna break out that playbook? And I had a comment on John Boehner, if I may, as far as, you know, what he said on Ted Cruz. That\u2019s name-calling, that\u2019s right out of second grade, you know, if you\u2019re losing the argument, what do you do? You start name-calling, and I learned that a long time ago. If someone\u2019s calling names, they lost the argument. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I started listening to you, you know, back in the day, I go, “Why are they calling Rush all these names?” back in the early nineties. And I started listening, and I\u2019m like, well, wait a minute, that\u2019s all they could do. <\/p>\n

\"original\"RUSH: You\u2019re right on. Nobody ever takes me on on the substance. Nobody ever says I\u2019m wrong. They just either get mad at the way I say it or who I happen to say it about. No, that\u2019s a good point. Name-calling does tend to indicate a lack of anything else to say. The Fiorina pick, it\u2019s gonna be categorized depending on who does the categorizing any which way you can imagine. It\u2019s gonna be called a desperation move. It\u2019s gonna be called a brilliant move. It\u2019s gonna be called a great tactical, strategic move for California, delegate selection and winning outright in California. It\u2019s necessary to get women because Trump\u2019s negatives with women are very high. <\/line><\/p>\n

And then you\u2019re gonna have the Trump oppo research people going out and saying, “Hey, wait a minute, did you know that this woman, Carly Fiorina, we got videotape here where she is just loving on Hillary Clinton.” And Carly will say, “That was years ago, that was then, this is not now.” I mean, a pick like this, it\u2019s gonna have its pros and its cons. You\u2019ve got two different strategies, right out in play. Like Trump, Bobby Knight is capitalizing on the media, slash, celebrity, big nature of things. And Cruz is using an insider strategy of trying to actually win delegates, a procedure that nobody sees \u2019cause it\u2019s not covered, \u2019cause it\u2019s not sexy, it\u2019s not exciting. <\/p>\n

We\u2019re gonna know here, aren\u2019t we, after Indiana? A lot of people think they already do. A lot of people think it\u2019s already over. But it isn\u2019t yet. But people are acting like that to try to create that mind-set with certain people.<\/p>\n

As far as the selection, I think she\u2019s great. She goes out and she has the ability to hit Hillary and hit Hillary hard with credibility. And I think she\u2019s fast on her feet. She\u2019s a sharp and quick thinker. But it is a move that usually is not made at this time. Reagan tried it in \u201976, to get the nomination, he chose Richard Schweiker, the governor of Pennsylvania. It did not work then. But it was a move that probably was the only one he had left. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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