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RUSH: You know, I had no idea. I just noticed Obama\u2019s in Argentina<\/a>. When did he leave Cuba? I thought the last we knew he was at a baseball game in Cuba. He\u2019s in Argentina so, okay, we gotta apologize for something down there, right? I\u2019ll bet he\u2019s gonna apologize because we overdrew — no, that was Chile. Pinochet. What did we do to Argentina? Had to do something. Maybe we didn\u2019t export Madonna there. Greetings, my friends, great to have you. Rush Limbaugh. What is this, already — this is Wednesday, this is unbelievable, fastest week in media, great to have you here. Telephone number\u2019s 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program and e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n


\nWell, guess what has happened? Ted Cruz has become the focus of the Republican campaign today. It is stunning how these things happen. In no particular order, somebody ran an ad that included a picture of Trump\u2019s wife, Melania, nearly nude from 15 years ago in a GQ, it\u2019s from a Gentleman\u2019s Quarterly photo spread. And Trump didn\u2019t like it. So he tweeted: (paraphrasing) “Lyin\u2019 Ted, you better be careful or I\u2019m gonna spill the beans on Heidi.”<\/p>\n

And everybody says, “What are the beans on Heidi? What beans are there on Heidi Cruz that Trump could possibly spill?”<\/p>\n

Well, then Cruz responded (paraphrasing), “Hey, real Donald Trump, I had nothing to do with that ad. We had nothing to do with that ad released by,” bah bah bah. “Be careful. Stay away from Heidi. She could run rings around you,” whatever it was. In fact, you\u2019ve gotta hear this. Let me get the actual tweet here. “Lyin\u00c2\u2019 Ted Cruz just used a picture of Melania from a GQ shoot in his ad. Be careful, Lyin\u00c2\u2019 Ted, or I will spill the beans on your wife!”<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t have Cruz\u2019s response tweet here. But it was along the lines: “Be careful, you don\u2019t want to tangle with Heidi.” And you\u2019ve gotta hear how CNN reacted to this. Grab sound bite number one. This is on CNN this morning around an hour and 40 minutes ago, Carol Costello plays a clip from earlier with Cruz. I want you to listen to how she reacts to this. She plays the clip of Cruz, and then she reacts.<\/p>\n

CRUZ: Last night Donald threatened my wife. He went directly after my wife, and I gotta tell you that, number one, Heidi, my wife, she\u2019s the daughter of missionaries in Africa, she\u2019s my best friend in the world, and if Donald wants to get in a character fight, he\u2019s better off sticking with me \u2019cause Heidi is way out of his league.<\/p>\n

COSTELLO: I\u2019ll stand up for my little woman. (laughing) Thoughts?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ll stand up for my little woman. Carol Costello, I\u2019ll stand up for my little woman, mocking it, mocking a man defending his wife against an attack from Donald Trump. Now, in what world does that happen? What, are you not supposed to defend your wife anymore? Is that the new feminism? Are you not supposed to defend women? Are you supposed to let them go ahead and be ridiculed and threatened? Are you supposed to let them be defamed? Are they just on their own out there?<\/p>\n

Or is it that when a conservative, when Ted Cruz, who they hate, who they don\u2019t like, if anybody threatens anybody, it\u2019s Ted Cruz threatening these people. These people all think Ted Cruz is gonna put \u2019em in the morality prison. That\u2019s what they\u2019re afraid of. So, in that context (imitating Carol), “Well, I\u2019ll stand up for my little woman, ha-ha-ha,” and then she runs around the table and asks for thoughts, and nobody reacted to that clip the way she wanted. She had David “Rodham” Gergen and some other woman whose name I don\u2019t remember, and neither of them commented on what Carol Costello asked. (imitating Carol) “Oh, well, I\u2019ll stand up for my little woman.” You\u2019re not in her league either, Carol. Just for everybody to know.<\/p>\n

Anyway, it turns out that the original tweet, or the ad that featured Melania Trump nearly nude from a 15-year-old photo shoot in GQ was actually placed by a PAC, a political action committee called Make America Awesome, and a woman runs that PAC. Her name is Liz Mair. And it has been fascinating to me read all the reaction to this today. There\u2019s some people on the right who can\u2019t believe Liz Mair would stoop to such a thing, can\u2019t believe that anybody on the right would stoop to such a cheap gutter type ad, even if it is about Trump, who many on the right think is already in the gutter, meaning Trump.<\/p>\n

And all the hand-wringing, “I can\u2019t believe we would stoop to this level. I can\u2019t believe this would happen.” And, of course, the ad that this PAC ran is being characterized as slut shaming. Do you know what that is? Well, it\u2019s pretty much self-explanatory. So that\u2019s another reason some on the right don\u2019t like it \u2019cause they think it\u2019s slut shaming, and so Liz Mair said (paraphrasing), “No, no, no, I hate that word. I hate that word in any context. That\u2019s not what we\u2019re doing here. We were trying to alert Mormons to vote for Ted Cruz. We wanted Mormons in Utah to know certain things about Trump and his wife.” But it does break some taboos, you know, children, wives, off limits. Melania, she really hasn\u2019t put herself out there. She\u2019s done a couple of interviews. But it just goes to show how volatile the whole campaign is.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got two different stories, maybe three today, on how the campaign\u2019s already over. One from Politico, from a liberal Democrat who thinks it\u2019s over — actually there\u2019s three. Jonah Goldberg, National Review<\/a>, who thinks it\u2019s over no matter what happens, the GOP is destroyed, it\u2019s over. Whether Trump gets the nomination or if Trump doesn\u2019t get the nomination, we\u2019re finished, it\u2019s over. Another person said this campaign ended last October, and it\u2019s over, it\u2019s for the Democrats. Hillary has been the winner since last October. And then there are others, one other who thinks it\u2019s still wide open and a possibility.<\/p>\n

<\/a>The fatalism that\u2019s out there is just overwhelming. We\u2019re still in March, we haven\u2019t even gotten to April yet, and the fatalism that has infected many on the Republican, slash, right.<\/p>\n

Oh. By the way. I\u2019ve had a couple of people send me snarky e-mail. “You know what? Everything you told us about rule 40, you were wrong, you were wrong. It doesn\u2019t apply to this convention.” I said go back and listen to what I said<\/a>. Rule 40, convention, Republican National Convention rules, rule 40 was written, I said, for the 2012 convention. And it was designed to prevent people like Rand Paul from making an end run against Romney in the 2012 convention, but it still stands. And what rule 40 essentially says is that nobody can be made the Republican nominee unless they have won a majority of delegates in a minimum of eight states.<\/p>\n

Well, that leaves only Trump and Cruz. It disqualifies Kasich; it disqualifies everybody else. It disqualifies whoever they would come up with in a contested convention, which I\u2019ve known all along, which is why I said they\u2019re gonna meet in April and rewrite this. And I said further, they can meet the day before the convention and rewrite rules. But if Rule 40… I think it\u2019s 40, parentheses, B. If it doesn\u2019t change, then it can\u2019t. But, of course, it will change. They\u2019re gonna change it to whatever.<\/p>\n

I got another story here that says Paul Ryan, in his speech to AIPAC, made it clear that he\u2019s running for president. His speech to AIPAC was his first attempt at getting delegates from Florida. I kid you not. It\u2019s the variety, the scattershot, the shotgun element here of commentary. Nobody knows what\u2019s going on. Nobody can analyze it, nobody can explain it, and people are unable to keep their emotions out of it. On the Republican right, you\u2019ve got fatalists and defeatists writing that it\u2019s all over.<\/p>\n


\nOn the left, you have people beating their chests, celebrating that it\u2019s all over, that nothing can stop Hillary. On the right, you\u2019ve got people that don\u2019t think it\u2019s all over but they\u2019re worried about Trump. The worry, the negativism, the pessimism that\u2019s out there is just overwhelming. I guess it\u2019s natural. I mean, I think, sadly, pessimism is more a natural state in the human condition than optimism is. Pessimism doesn\u2019t take any effort. Optimism does. And that\u2019s why there\u2019s always far more pessimism out there than there is optimism.<\/p>\n

The number of people that are natural optimists? You ever notice how many people suspicious of those people? Natural optimists, it is said, “There has to be something wrong with \u2019em. How can you be an optimist in the mess that we call the world today? How could you be an optimist when you look around the country, when you watch the evening news? How in the world can you be an optimist?” Some people claim to naturally be. Pessimism seems to be the order of the day — and that\u2019s how you cater to people, by the way.<\/p>\n

You play on their pessimism. You amplify it. You acknowledge it. You let \u2019em know that you, too, understand and you\u2019re pessimistic but you have the solution. Which takes us to the news of the day, and that\u2019s Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz is all over the news for two reasons. One is that ad attacking Melania that everybody thought came from him that didn\u2019t. That has created its own universe. But Cruz said something else. He said that the police need to “patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods,” and you would have thought that somebody has suggested impeaching Obama.<\/p>\n

The reaction to this is overwhelming. People can\u2019t believe he would say such a thing, and they\u2019ve gone talked to experts, cops, commissioners, law enforcement people here and there, to ask what they think of Ted Cruz suggesting that the police need to start patrolling and securing Muslim neighborhoods. And the amount of fear at the very idea of doing this? There are so many people who are shouting disagreement with Cruz \u2019cause they don\u2019t want the jihadis to target them. And Trump, meanwhile, is saying that we need to start thinking about using torture to stop some of this stuff.<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s gonna be our starting point. Gonna take a brief time-out. I want to come back and replay a response I gave to a young caller, I think it was Friday, a 14-year-old who was pro-Cruz. The kid was pessimistic himself, and he asked me if I thought that Cruz could still win. And we\u2019ll we play what I said and get started with all the rest of this when we get back.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Back on Friday, ladies and gentlemen, we had a young caller who wanted to know if it was over<\/a>. Is a Cruz supporter. He\u2019s from Texas, 14 years old, and asked me if Cruz still had a chance. This is what I told him…<\/p>\n

BEGIN RUSH ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think the fact that Ted Cruz is in second place is astounding. Ted Cruz has been ignored from the first day of his campaign. … Ted Cruz is in second place; he has been given no time by the Drive-By Media. He has been shown no respect. They have not treated him as a viable candidate. He has been hammered over and over by every other candidate one way other another. Ted Cruz has been lambasted. He is very rarely given a chance to rebut the things that are said about him. He is routinely one of the speakers at each debate that speaks the least.<\/p>\n

<\/a>There\u2019s some exceptions in some debates, but for the most part he\u2019s among the least. He is hated by the establishment, and they are the ones that totally ignore him. The party has not lifted a finger to help him — and even now when they are starting to, they make it known that they\u2019re not happy to be doing it. … He is being dwarfed and swamped by unprecedented coverage of Trump, who hasn\u2019t had to spend any money to get it. Ted Cruz has raised money left and right. There are all kinds of people giving money to Ted Cruz, and nobody talks about it.<\/p>\n

Nobody wants to talk about Ted Cruz. We\u2019re told over and over that everybody in the Senate hates him. We\u2019re told over and over everybody in Washington hates him. But yet he\u2019s in second place and he\u2019s won nine states. So you\u2019re asking me if I think Ted Cruz can win? Yeah, I do. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s anywhere near over yet. Everybody wants you to believe that it is. Everybody wants you to believe one of two things: It\u2019s over, Cruz is not gonna get there, Trump is, or we\u2019re gonna go to a contested convention and it\u2019s gonna be between Kasich and whoever else the establishment can throw up.<\/p>\n

It still amazes me. You have the establishment types with their secret dinner meetings like last night near here in Palm Beach trying to figure out how to game the convention so that one of theirs can get the nomination. Then you have these conservatives who are plotting, trying to come up with a third-party candidate. And here, again, nobody\u2019s talking about Ted Cruz. And he\u2019s there every day, and he\u2019s out campaigning. He\u2019s going everywhere, and he is in second place despite all of the obstacles that have been put in his way. So I think he can win.<\/p>\n

END RUSH ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n


\nRUSH: In any number of ways. It\u2019s a long shot, yeah. But still I think it\u2019s a major achievement given the odds that have been stacked against him. Which, hey, I\u2019m not complaining about them; I\u2019m just pointing them out. Nothing is guaranteed. I\u2019m not crying about anything here. I\u2019m just laying things out as I believe they\u2019ve happened. Today, Jeb Bush did endorse Ted Cruz. And he\u2019s not the first. I made a point earlier in the week that if some of these establishment guys start endorsing Cruz, is it gonna actually be helpful?<\/p>\n

Are these the kind of people he wants endorsing him? These are the people he\u2019s been running against, for example, the establishment. But, you know, things are fluid, and we\u2019re getting down to the end of this in terms of time to pull it out, and unity is what has to happen here one way the other. There has to be some kind of unity if the Democrats are going to be defeated in November. I don\u2019t know how the unity would manifest itself yet, but there has to be some. This could be an indication of it. Jeb alone probably is not a significant thing in terms of bringing support to Cruz.<\/p>\n

He never… He had four delegates and that kind of thing. But at this point, everything like this matters, and it adds up. So we see where it plays out. It\u2019s a long shot. Cruz, as predicted, won Utah last night. Trump won Arizona, and there were more delegates at stake in Arizona. So Trump had a net delegate gain last night despite Trump winning Arizona and Cruz sweeping Utah. And, of course, John Kasich is still out there. Another round of George Soros money has been donated to Governor Kasich.<\/p>\n

This is the second installment now, which puts him up over $200,000 that Soros related PACs have contributed to Kasich, who literally has no chance. He has no mathematical whatsoever of securing the nomination, yet he runs around talking about that as though he does and as though it\u2019s a reality. Now, to Ted Cruz. This is CNN: “Ted Cruz on Tuesday called for law enforcement to step up their policing of Muslim neighborhoods in the US in the wake of terrorist attacks in Brussels, comparing it to police boosting their presence in areas with known gang activity.<\/p>\n


\n“‘If you have a neighborhood where there\u2019s a high level of gang activity, the way to prevent it is you increase the law enforcement presence there and you target the gang members to get them off the streets,\u2019 [Cruz] told CNN\u2019s Anderson Cooper. ‘I\u2019m talking about any area where there is a higher incidence of radical Islamic terrorism.\u2019 Cruz also pointed to what he called the ‘successful program\u2019 in New York implemented by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, apparently pointing to the New York Police Department\u2019s controversial surveillance efforts targeting Muslims under his administration.<\/p>\n

“J. Peter Donald, communications for the New York Police Department, described Cruz\u2019s comments as an ‘incendiary, foolish statement.\u2019 ‘Hey, @tedcruz are our nearly 1k Muslim officers a ‘threat\u2019 too? It\u2019s hard to imagine a more incendiary, foolish statement,\u2019 he tweeted, the night before Cruz is expected to host a rally in New York City.” Hillary Clinton got in on it. Everybody has gotten in on ramming Ted Cruz on this.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Listen to this montage. This will set up what\u2019s coming. A quick montage of the media savaging Cruz over his suggestion the cops patrol Muslim neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

SAVANNAH GUTHRIE: How would you define a Muslim neighborhood? Is there a certain percentage of Muslims that have to live there? Do you have to have any particular suspicion that they\u2019re being radicalized, or is it just the mere fact they\u2019re Muslims?<\/p>\n

CHRIS CUOMO: You don\u2019t want to paint with too broad a brush and blame an entire faith for the acts of the worst among them, and that\u2019s why there\u2019s criticism about policing Muslim communities, uhhhh, as if they were all an enemy.<\/p>\n

MARIA BARTIROMO: People had a problem with that “patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods,” as if saying all Muslims are radical.<\/p>\n

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: How is targeting Muslim neighborhoods constitutional?<\/p>\n

NORAH O\u2019DONNELL: How many Muslims are in America? Three million Muslims in America! Law enforcement is overwhelmed. It\u2019s impractical what you\u2019re suggesting. Name one community, one city.<\/p>\n

GAYLE KING: Your comments are decidedly anti-Muslim. You\u2019re playing right into the hands of ISIS.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ted Cruz was on every morning show today, and those are sound bites of Drive-By Media people that are preaching to him, lecturing him or asking him questions. So you can see, it didn\u2019t go over too well with the Drive-Bys. And it didn\u2019t go over well with Hillary, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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