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RUSH: So here are the three different strategies that are being bandied about on the Republican side, all focused on stopping Trump. Plan A, sit tight, let things go on as they are and don\u2019t try to influence anything. Rubio sinks or swims on his own, Cruz ditto. They hope that Kasich gets out and Carson, nonfactors, get \u2019em out soon as they can, but other than that, sit on everything and wait for Trump to implode. Wait for Trump to collapse.<\/p>\n

Now, before you Trumpists get all mad at me, I\u2019m just telling you what the establishment strategy is. And I can detect it because I listened to \u2019em talk last night. You know who\u2019s speaking and where they\u2019re coming from you can put two and two together and get four easily. And when you hear these establishment types say, “Well, you know, Trump is underperforming. Well, you know, Trump\u2019s not nearly as far ahead as what he thought it would be. Well, you know, with every one of these victories, Trump is not expanding his momentum.”<\/p>\n


\nNow, very little of that is actually true. But truth is not what any of this is about, just like truth is very rarely about the outcome in court. This is all about perceptions. It\u2019s all about momentum. It\u2019s all about feelings combined with perceptions and so forth. Because there are still a lot of votes to happen. There\u2019s still a lot of states yet to have their primaries. And so creating impressions and mind-sets — and that\u2019s what strategy A is all about. And, believe me, there are a lot of people in the establishment that are still in complete denial.<\/p>\n

They still believe that Trump\u2019s not gonna be in Cleveland. They still think that something\u2019s gonna happen, either he is going to cross a threshold that even his supporters will not stick with him on. Or that he\u2019s gonna quit. Something\u2019s gonna happen and he\u2019s gonna realize he\u2019s not gonna win, he\u2019s gonna quit. Or he\u2019s got some other objective that nobody knows and at some point he\u2019s gonna have met that objective and then quit. I mean, it\u2019s silly, but that\u2019s part and parcel of the first part of the three pronged strategy.<\/p>\n

Plan B is to clear the field of everybody but Rubio. They do not want to unify behind Cruz. That would be their smartest move, but they will not do that. Plan B is oriented around getting everybody to drop out and then the party unifying behind a guy who has won one state and did not reach the 20% threshold in a couple of states, meaning he didn\u2019t get any delegates in those states last night. That would be Rubio. And Rubio is the desired candidate because that\u2019s where the moneyed people want to go. He\u2019s closer to the establishment, this whole Gang of Eight business.<\/p>\n


\nTrumpsters think Trump owns this outsider business. Cruz is more of an outsider than you know in terms of the way the Republican establishment disdains him, doesn\u2019t like him, fears him, hates him. He\u2019s so much of what they don\u2019t want. They don\u2019t want conservatism in the party. They don\u2019t want evangelicals prominent in the party. They don\u2019t want anybody talking about Judeo-Christian ethics and morality and conservatism. They\u2019re trying to sweep that out of the party ever since Goldwater.<\/p>\n

The third prong of the strategy, keep everybody in so that Trump does not accrue the minimum requirement of 1,237 delegates going into Cleveland. The way that would work is, if that happens, if nobody has 1,237 on the first vote delegates are pledged and pretty much would have to vote the way everybody knows they\u2019re gonna vote because of the primary results. But after that then it\u2019s wide open.<\/p>\n

And that point wouldn\u2019t be brokered. Brokered means that powerful people in smoke-filled rooms are denying delegates the right to participate in the process. That wouldn\u2019t be the case. There would be all kinds of horse trading going on and bickering and arguing, Trump included. And if Trump, let\u2019s say he shows up and his 15 or 20 delegates short or 30, he\u2019s gonna say, “I can find those, I can find those, I can get those away from somebody easily.”<\/p>\n

But those are the three strategies that the GOP establishment is relying on now. And I don\u2019t know which one they\u2019re gonna decide on. They may decide different factions of all three. And more will become clear as future primaries — there\u2019s another slew of states on Saturday, and then on the 15th of March we have Florida and Ohio. Those are the biggies.<\/p>\n


\nNow, another interesting point about all of this as it relates to delegates, folks, I think after Saturday — I could maybe need to be corrected on this, but at some point very soon all of the remaining primaries are closed, which means Democrats and independents cannot cross over and vote in the Republican primaries. And that is also a factor in the Republican establishment strategy because they are realizing or theorizing that Trump is picking up a lot of votes from leftist, progressive Democrats, liberals, and independents.<\/p>\n

They did so in South Carolina, some other states yesterday and last night. But when you get to the closed primaries, one of the examples given of a closed primary is Oklahoma. Oklahoma last night was a closed primary, and Trump lost, so the establishment, “See? See? When it\u2019s just Republicans voting, we can beat Trump.” So they\u2019re realizing on all kinds of hopeful analyses to tell themselves that there are ways to stop Trump here.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, wait. Before everybody goes and blows a gasket out there, I am gonna be talking about the Cruz victory in Texas and the Cruz victory in Oklahoma. There\u2019s three hours here. So don\u2019t jump to any conclusions. Let me tell you about this closed primary. The next four GOP primaries are closed. There are four of \u2019em on Saturday, March the 5th. I think it\u2019s 4. Anyway, these four are closed: Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Maine. And remember the establishment theory. Oklahoma: closed primary. Cruz wins; Trump loses.<\/p>\n

The establishment theory is that in closed primaries, Republicans only, Trump will not win. This is what they\u2019re telling themselves. Remember their three-pronged strategy here that they\u2019re scratching their own backs with to try to tell themselves they\u2019re still in this and that they haven\u2019t lost anything and they can still prevent Trump from running away with it.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: This delegate stuff? I have spent… While doing this program, I\u2019ve spent the last 30 minutes going back and forth with people on the delegate count, and they still can\u2019t make me understand it. And I still don\u2019t know what numbers to give you. The New York Times Nate Silver say one thing, but over here something totally different. Politico\u2019s got another… (interruption) Politico what? (interruption) Same as the New York Times? Well, I hate that the New York Times may have it right. Oh, no.<\/p>\n

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\nRUSH: By the way, a big, big, big announcement moments ago that Mitt Romney is going to have a big, big, big, big, big announcement tomorrow. And Mitt Romney gonna make a big, big, big, big, major speech tomorrow. However, we\u2019re also told that Mitt Romney is not going to enter the race. Mitt Romney is not gonna announce himself as a candidate. By the way, one of the strategies, the three-pronged strategies that I mentioned to you is just wait it out and hope that Trump doesn\u2019t get to 1,237. There\u2019s another part of that strategy, and that is Romney, if it looks like that might happen, Romney enter the race at the end, like before the California primary, and go in there and actually having contested as a candidate and then the party unites and coalesces around Romney.<\/p>\n

I kid you not. This is an establishment dream. There are some in the Republican Party to whom that is the solution. It boggles the mind. They\u2019re gonna send Romney out there to ring the warning bell? These guys are saying, “We\u2019re all in danger of losing the Republican Party, Rush. Do you realize what\u2019s happening here? The party gonna be blown up if we don\u2019t stop Trump, the party\u2019s over, we gotta stop Trump.”<\/p>\n

I watch this, I say, “Well, you guys are the ones that tell your base that they\u2019re not wanted, not needed or whatever. But of all people to send out this warning?” You know, they make this job tough. To describe what they\u2019re doing, you can\u2019t avoid sounding mean, unbelieving, whatever. It\u2019s really hard. Why don\u2019t they send McCain out? Why don\u2019t they send Dole out? Why don\u2019t they send Christine Todd Whitman? Who else have they got? I\u2019m joking. I\u2019m trying to make a point here. It doesn\u2019t matter who they send out. If they send somebody out from the establishment warning we\u2019re about to lose the party everybody\u2019s gonna shout, “No, no, ‘you\u2019 are losing the party, and you may have already lost it. Don\u2019t blame us.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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