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RUSH: Last night on Charlie Rose on PBS, David Axelrod — you know this is amazing. David Axelrod ran Obama\u2019s campaign and he\u2019s the fill-in host on PBS for Charlie Rose. And these people maintain, “No, no, no, no, no. We don\u2019t have any bias. No, no, no, no. No prejudice. We are journalists.” Axelrod ain\u2019t no journalist. He\u2019s a political hack sitting in for Charlie Rose. This taints Charlie Rose, whether Charlie wants to admit it or not. <\/p>\n

Anyway, Axelrod\u2019s speaking to Alex Wagner of MSNBC. They\u2019re talking about the Republican primary race, about whether the establishment would prefer Cruz or Trump to be the party\u2019s nominee. So this is Axelrod, who ran Obama\u2019s campaign, with a commie babe, practically, from MSNBC, Alex Wagner. And here is what the conversation sounded like.<\/p>\n

WAGNER: I hear from other Republicans, you know, establishment Republicans, moderate Republicans, they would much rather see Ted Cruz lose —<\/line><\/p>\n

AXELROD: Yes.<\/p>\n

WAGNER: — in November because the implications for the party would be much clearer than if it was Donald Trump at the top of the ticket.<\/p>\n

AXELROD: That is true. You have heard conservative Republicans say now for several cycles if we just nominated a true conservative —<\/p>\n

WAGNER: Right.<\/p>\n

AXELROD: — and not one of these center-right moderates in their view — John McCain, Mitt Romney — that we would win. The notion of Cruz gives them a pure test —<\/p>\n

RUSH: What these guys go on to say here is that according to the Republican establishment types that they\u2019re talking to, the theory is that they want Cruz to be the nominee. The Republican establishment wants Cruz to be the nominee because they\u2019re convinced Cruz is gonna lose. And if they\u2019re gonna lose, they want a rock-ribbed conservative to lose so that they can then blame it on conservatism. <\/p>\n

Because if conservatism is on the ballot, and conservatism loses, then the Republican establishment run around and say, “See, we told you, we\u2019ve been telling you, there is no way we can ever win with a conservative on the ballot.” So I think that\u2019s what they\u2019re hoping for. That would require, of course, Cruz to get the nomination. And for Cruz to get the nomination, appears to be a long shot. Some people think it could happen on the second or third ballot. So if Cruz gets the nomination and go on to lose, why, the establishment, the Republican establishment would be sitting pretty \u2019cause they can run around, “See? See? Okay, we ran the best conservatives you people said we had, the guy got skunked. That\u2019s why we can never nominate another conservative.” Folks, I have no doubt that that\u2019s what they\u2019re trying to do. No doubt whatsoever.<\/p>\n

In fact, I have to amend something that I said yesterday. Something I said yesterday was that if Cruz somehow gets the nomination away from Trump, I said the establishment will then do everything they can to take Cruz out, but I have to amend that now because I think they let Cruz get the nomination and then hope that Cruz would then lose to Hillary and then they could say, “See, conservatism loses every time it\u2019s tried. We got you guys, we got the nominee, you said Cruz is the best conservative since Reagan. Cruz gets up there and if Hillary were to win, that\u2019d be the end of conservatism and the Republican Party.” <\/line><\/p>\n

That\u2019s what these people on Charlie Rose were speculating. And I can\u2019t discount that, folks. I mean, I think they may have a point with that, so I\u2019d have to, again, revise my theory from yesterday. Maybe it was a couple of days ago. If the establishment succeeds in thwarting Trump at a contested convention, and if Cruz happens to pull off magic here with this delegate battle that he\u2019s waging and would happen to win the nomination the second, third ballot, I said it wouldn\u2019t get that far because the establishment move in and try to next sabotage Cruz. But maybe not. <\/p>\n

You already got Republicans out there saying they\u2019d prefer to vote for Hillary than Trump and Cruz. So it is something to keep in mind, that the establishment, if Cruz were to be the nominee, might lay down and not offer him that much help, hoping that he lost, so they could forever be rid of conservatism in the Republican Party. <\/p>\n

So then it would come down to, okay, whatever polling data do we have, can Cruz or Trump, which of the two can beat Hillary, what does the polling data say, and there\u2019s polling from Fox News today — strange that you should ask the question. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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