{"id":10933,"date":"2013-11-06T19:52:42","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T19:52:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-11-06T19:52:42","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T19:52:42","slug":"cruz_vs_christie_could_be_epic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/11\/06\/cruz_vs_christie_could_be_epic\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruz vs. Christie Could be Epic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/53920\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Here\u2019s Simon, San Diego.  Simon, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.  Happy to have you here.  Hi.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Thank you, sir.  Glad to speak to you and I just got a question for you.  The Republican Party doesn\u2019t seem to really be supporting the Tea Party at all.  Are they, in fact, creating an environment for a third party by kind of turning their back on the Tea Party?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Well, in terms of desire, are you asking if I think the Republicans are actually trying to drive the Tea Party away and force &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  No, I think in the Republicans view they\u2019re letting \u2019em know, &#8220;Hey, you do it our way or you don\u2019t get anything.&#8221;  And I\u2019m just wondering are they in fact &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><BR\/>RUSH:  Well, okay, so they\u2019re already looking at \u2019em as a third party then, you mean?<\/line><img id=\"eZObject_83392\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/CruzChristiePIX.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Forcing them into a third party by not allowing them to come to the table, not supporting them.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  In a sense &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s their intent to create a third party.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  No, but I think it is their intent to change their base.  I think they don\u2019t like the conservative or Tea Party, the pro-life base.  I think if they could change that they would do it on a dime and I think that\u2019s one of the things that they\u2019re trying to do.  If you look, I think this is one of the great illustrations.  One of the reasons why the Republican Party is having orgasms over Christie is that he beat the Democrat candidate in the Hispanic vote.  Kid you not.  He beat this Buono Democrat babe 51-45 in the Hispanic vote.  And I\u2019m telling you, that is orgasm city in the Republican establishment.  So here you have the Tea Party, you got Ted Cruz, and what does he do?  Ted Cruz takes the fight to the left.  Ted Cruz takes the fight to the Democrats. <\/p>\n<p>What is the Republican Party doing?  The Republican Party is taking the fight to the Tea Party, \u2019cause they think the Tea Party is preventing the Republican Party from reaching out to Hispanics and women and all that.  So this could end up being pretty epic, Cruz versus Christie if it ever materializes, \u2019cause it\u2019s gonna be a huge contrast. The Republican Party right now would kill, figuratively, if they could get the Hispanic vote. If they could just tie the Democrats with the Hispanic vote.  I don\u2019t know what it is about that particular segment, but I\u2019m telling you that\u2019s why they\u2019re just falling all over themselves with Christie.  That and he has nothing to do with the Tea Party. <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  As my friend Vince Flynn always said, &#8220;Keep the faith, folks, keep the faith.&#8221;  And we will be back tomorrow.  See you then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s Simon, San Diego. Simon, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program. Happy to have you here. Hi. CALLER: Thank you, sir. Glad to speak to you and I just got a question for you. 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