{"id":6793,"date":"2015-03-23T17:56:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T17:56:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-03-23T17:56:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T17:56:47","slug":"will_cruz_push_the_field_right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/03\/23\/will_cruz_push_the_field_right\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Cruz Push the Field Right?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: This is Phillip in Raleigh, North Carolina. Great to have you, sir. I\u2019m glad you waited.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. Longtime listener, first-time caller. Mega dittos.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Like you, I think I\u2019ve been very worried as well about our future, and listening to that speech today, it provided so much hope. I think he\u2019s energizing, he\u2019s motivating. He articulated in sharing conservative ideals, whether it\u2019s taxes, health care, defense, protection of life, decreased regulation. And I\u2019m finally motivated. Somebody that didn\u2019t have the typical Republican apologetic tone in the speech.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, there was certainly none of that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: There were no apologies. There were no apologetics. There were no excuses offered. There were no qualifiers in any way offered by Ted Cruz<\/a> as an excuse for what he was saying or what he believes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. I think you can motivate the base. I think the independents will come on board.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, we\u2019ll see. I\u2019ll tell you one thing that\u2019s gonna happen here. I would have to think — I could be wrong — the exact opposite could happen. But I think the reaction this is gonna get — and, by the way, you\u2019re gonna think this is funny. Do not, folks, discount the fact he didn\u2019t use a teleprompter. Now, I know it sounds ridiculous, but the fact that he didn\u2019t use a teleprompter is causing the Drive-Bys as much puzzlement as anything he might have said. It\u2019s not supposed to be possible. What it\u2019s gonna mean: He really believed it, this guy is serious. <\/p>\n

Now, one of two things is gonna happen in the Republican field. This announcement today is either gonna force a whole lot of potential Republican candidates to move to the right, maybe further right than they intended to in order to compete with this. Or, I think more unlikely is, that some of them might decide to abandon going right at all and go more to the center in order to differentiate themselves because they might conclude that there\u2019s no way they can out-Cruz Cruz on the right. So it\u2019s gonna be interesting to me to see what the other candidates now do because of this and what happens the next day.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: The interesting thing to me right now is what will the rest of the Republican field do in response. It is entirely possible — and, by the way, I say this with some firsthand experience of things like this. It\u2019s quite possible — I\u2019m not predicting it. I don\u2019t know for sure it\u2019s gonna happen. But it\u2019s quite possible that Cruz was so effective<\/a> today in articulating conservatism, and then coupling that with what his conservative agenda would be, and then coupling that with what his vision for America is, and his recitation of what is wrong with the current president, the current leadership, the current Democrat Party, it may be that other Republicans decide there\u2019s no way they can get to the right of Ted Cruz and there may not be any way they can actually compete with him on that stage. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s quite possible. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s gonna happen. I\u2019m just throwing out possibilities here. We\u2019ll have to watch and see. But it\u2019s possible that a number of Republican candidates might say, “You know what? He owns it. Ted Cruz is the conservative in this. I\u2019m gonna have to stake out unique territory.” I\u2019ve seen this happen in none other than the media. So it could well be — and I doubt very seriously that you\u2019re gonna have a lot of Republicans abandon the right because Cruz was so good at it today, but it\u2019s possible. I don\u2019t expect it to happen, but if it does, I won\u2019t be surprised.<\/line><\/p>\n

But they\u2019re gonna have to differentiate themselves from him somehow. And the tough question is gonna be, “Okay, how do I do conservatism better than Ted Cruz does it? Can I do conservatism as well as Ted Cruz and win because I have a more likable personality, \u2019cause I have a better looking family, do I look better on TV, do I sound more competent? Or can I be as conservative as Cruz and articulate the same stuff and do I have a leg up because I\u2019ve actually done something? I\u2019ve actually implemented an agenda.” <\/p>\n

These guys are gonna be asking themselves all these questions. And I think this is great. You contrast what exists on the Republican side with the vanilla that\u2019s on the Democrat side, I don\u2019t care who you pick, Hillary, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, take your pick of any of them over there, and all you\u2019ve got is Chairman Mao Jr. I mean, you don\u2019t have any diversity on the left whatsoever. You\u2019ve got far left, extreme left, and nothing else. Mrs. Clinton cannot come anywhere near Cruz in likability, presentation, energy, articulation, any of that. She can\u2019t get anywhere near. <\/p>\n

Elizabeth Warren can only out-anger people. Joe Biden is a walking joke, a walking gaffe. So in that sense the Democrat bench, I think, is somewhat thin, but there certainly isn\u2019t any diversity. The Democrat base is so ridiculously, radically, genuinely insane. I was talking in the last hour about all of these people who have been voting Democrat for all of these years believing that\u2019s the ticket, and they\u2019re angrier than ever, and they\u2019re more unhappy than they\u2019ve ever been. It\u2019s understandable. Everything they\u2019ve been voting for and all the promises cannot possibly be kept. <\/p>\n

The prosperity and all the other things that are promised cannot possibly be delivered. Even after $18 trillion in spending money this nation does not and has not had. Eighteen trillion, we ought to have 10 utopias for that and we\u2019re not even close to one. So the rage and anger that\u2019s on the left, in one sense, is understandable. It\u2019s exacerbated and even inflamed with additional rhetoric by politicians on the left. That base has to be accounted for. <\/p>\n

You have to deliver hate-filled, extreme radical leftism in order to have the barest chance at winning the Democrat nomination, which does not bode well for diversity on the Democrat side, versus, again, all of the different personalities and concepts and themes and variations that do exist on the Republican side. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: This is Daniel in San Antonio, Texas. Great to have you on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi from Texas. The reason why I called in is, I\u2019m really excited about Ted Cruz running. Being from Texas, I voted for him in the primary and I voted for him when he was running in the general election. Listening to him gives me a better outlook on the future. I have a 11-month-old baby at home, and I\u2019m excited that he won\u2019t get more opportunities if Ted Cruz would be elected opposed to like Jeb Bush, Hillary Clinton, or any of the others.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I understand that. I think probably what excites you and a lot of other people is the realization that there is a Ted Cruz, that there is at least somebody out there who can do this, that there\u2019s somebody out there willing to do this. We finally have somebody that\u2019s willing to articulate conservatism proudly, happily, cheerfully, with no excuses whatsoever. In fact, just the opposite of that. I can see how that would be inspiring and reassuring. <\/p>\n

So have at it. <\/p>\n

I think it\u2019s totally justified. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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