{"id":4982,"date":"2015-11-02T19:49:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T19:49:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-11-02T19:49:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T19:49:27","slug":"why_republicans_hate_ted_cruz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/11\/02\/why_republicans_hate_ted_cruz\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Republicans Hate Ted Cruz"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Jeremy in the Wilds of East Texas. It\u2019s great to have you in the EIB Network. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. How are you doing?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Just fine. Thank you so much for calling, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Listen I\u2019ve got a lot to say so I\u2019m just gonna launch right into it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Do that. That\u2019s exactly what you should do, just launch, just get in, get it, and get out. Go for it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I want to talk about Cruz electability. I\u2019ve heard people talk and seen on social media where people say I\u2019m not sure Cruz can win the general, and the news media have been promoting Rubio and some of these other candidates. And I just wanted to say Cruz started out in the state of Texas when he ran for the Senate at 2% in the polls. Margin of error was 3%. And he went on to beat David Dewhurst, the lieutenant governor of Texas, by double digits, and then turned around and won the general election by double digits. So, you know, that part of it is a frustration to me, that people keep — you know, they can\u2019t seem to take this, even they make excuses even after the debate that Marco Rubio or this candidate\u2019s gonna win the nomination. That\u2019s my first point. <\/line><\/p>\n

My second point is what you just talked about the climate change court. This goes to the issue of what Cruz will do when he\u2019s in office. When he was the solicitor general of the State of the Texas, he actually fought in a case called Medellin v. The State of Texas where he fought the world court in the Supreme Court and won that case, where George Bush was trying to tell the State of Texas that we had to stop — that Texas had to stop an execution because the world court said so and because of international law and that we had to abide by international law. And Cruz shut it down and basically litigated that and won. So there\u2019s two examples right there of where we need Ted Cruz to be our next president. <\/p>\n

Number three is, you know, Cruz has actually said he\u2019s going to be to conservatives what Obama has been to liberals. And he\u2019s going to govern like that. He\u2019s already said that when he takes office, he\u2019s gonna overturn all the illegal executive orders. What other candidate has said that? I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve heard a single one of them. He\u2019s the only one talking about trying to undo. You know, they speak in general terms about fixing Washington and all this kind of stuff, but he has actually come out and said, I\u2019m gonna do this.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, Ted Cruz scares \u2019em all. Ted Cruz scares a lot of people, because they\u2019re not conservative. Ted Cruz means it when he says he\u2019s going to try to get government out of people\u2019s lives, when he\u2019s going to try to reduce the size of government, when he\u2019s going to try to reduce the financial take that comes to government. He means it. And most everybody makes their living off government, Republican, Democrat, whatever, they make their living off of it. They make their living governing it, expanding it, writing laws for it, or what have you. Ted Cruz is serious about wanting to deemphasize it. <\/line><\/p>\n

I love this argument that he\u2019s not electable, he can\u2019t win. Mitt Romney was, right? John McCain, there\u2019s somebody could win. Right, right. All these people they tell us that can\u2019t win, they singularly set out and try to destroy. Ted Cruz has overcome odds as you described in Texas. If he can\u2019t win, how did he become senator? It\u2019s a fascinating thing to watch when you for the longest time conservatives thought the Republican Party was their home and where their beliefs resonated and echoed and it\u2019s really a slap in the face whenever you, as a conservative — when you realize the Republican Party actually is not for the things you\u2019re for. That is an interesting day, whenever the day happens, and it happens to every conservative when they realize that the Republican Party is actually not you. And if you\u2019ve ever had any doubts, all you have to do is take a look at the way they all react to Ted Cruz. It\u2019s with palpable anger and fear. And it\u2019s irrational. <\/p>\n

Here, give you an example. This is Boehner. Grab sound bite 13. CNN\u2019s State of the Union yesterday. And this is just a small example, you know, the DC establishment despises Ted Cruz. If Ted Cruz weren\u2019t around, they could sell this budget deal as they\u2019re trying to tell people it reforms entitlements and it reduces spending and it does all this. The thing is that Ted Cruz is running around calling them out on it. No, it doesn\u2019t do that. And that makes them mad, so Boehner\u2019s on State of the Union yesterday with Dana Bash, who said, “The budget deal that you struck just this week calls for an increase of $80 billion in federal spending over two years.” That\u2019s caca. It\u2019s much more than that. “In exchange for a variety of cuts. Ted Cruz said it\u2019s a complete and utter surrender. John Boehner\u2019s golden parachute will certainly cement his legacy, but it\u2019s a slap in the face to conservatives.”<\/line><\/p>\n

BOEHNER: That\u2019s just total nonsense. Real entitlement reform in this agreement. We\u2019ve got a big group of members who need more money for our national defense. And all the increases in spending are offset with spending reductions elsewhere in the government.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Folks, the numbers don\u2019t add up that way. The net spending increases are significant. There isn\u2019t any entitlement reform. The national debt, by the time this deal is one year old, is going to be $20 trillion. Where in the world is anything being cut, entitlements or anything else? Nothing is. You know why this budget was done? And Politico has a story, they\u2019re just smiling ear to ear on this story. “Behind the Secret Budget Deal that Drove Conservatives Mad.” And they\u2019re just so happy at the Politico. That\u2019s one of the biggest days they ever have is when they could write a story detailing how anger conservatives are or how big a shaft the conservatives got. And that\u2019s one — this is one of these stories. A potential national default, John Boehner\u2019s resignation, and a resolute Barack Obama aligned to temporarily halt Washington\u2019s dysfunction. There isn\u2019t any dysfunction. Washington Democrats and Republicans are working together just fine, folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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