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RUSH: Now, one more possibility here, folks, about Iowa and the polling data. What if the polls were right? Remember, the last poll was taken like five days before. What if the last poll was right? What if at the time the poll was taken Trump was gonna win by four points, and then Trump went on the Sunday shows, and that\u2019s when he started talking what he was saying about health care, and Cruz wanting people to die in the streets. He\u2019s gotta save people, help people, can\u2019t let \u2019em die in the streets like Cruz wants, got a big heart and so forth, Cruz doesn\u2019t, start sounding just like Obama talking about health care. What if they had taken a poll after the Sunday shows? Wonder what that poll would have shown. <\/p>\n

Then this whole business with the endorsement from Bob Vander Plaats back on December 10th, president of The Family Leader, popular evangelical leader in Iowa. He endorsed Huckabee, he endorsed Santorum in the previous caucuses, and they both won. Back in January, late January, Trump skewered Vander Plaats on Twitter calling him a phony and a bad guy because he endorsed Cruz. You know, these are things that Iowans notice. And I think there was a cumulative effect of things that Iowans noticed. I really don\u2019t think it has much to do with the debate at all. <\/p>\n

Back to the phones. Cindy in Asheville, North Carolina, welcome. Great to have you on the program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, how you doing?<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Just fine. I\u2019ve been to Asheville before. I just want you to know that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m sorry?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ve been to Asheville before.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh. Poor you. It\u2019s a horrible place, very liberal.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know it is. I was just in there for a day.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I actually live in an area called Spring Creek. But let\u2019s get to the point. I love you. I have listened to you, and 34 years ago I met Ronald Reagan and I became a Republican, and that was in Bowling Green, Kentucky. And I had a business in Bowling Green, Kentucky. I played you, I was one of the first Rush rooms back then, years ago.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Whoa.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I love you. And I do not agree with you now. I am a Southern girl, and I will tell you, Trump didn\u2019t attack Cruz enough, as far as I\u2019m concerned. I\u2019m gonna tell you, somebody called yesterday, and they said they would never vote for Donald Trump. I will never vote for Ted Cruz. You can\u2019t afford to lose me. I am the voter that this party does not need to lose. <\/p>\n

Donald Trump has given me the energy and the heart to go on in this party when everyone else left it. I love him. And I\u2019m proud of it. I\u2019m proud of being a listener of yours for so many years just like I\u2019m proud of being a voter for Donald Trump. But I think Ted Cruz, he\u2019s creepy. The man is creepy. I mean, I don\u2019t need a guy that\u2019s gonna be a Jesus fish to get my vote.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What? You don\u2019t need a guy that\u2019s gonna beat a Jesus fish to —<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, or carry a cross on his back. I don\u2019t need that to vote for Donald Trump. Donald Trump did not pander to the people of Iowa. I mean, I think he\u2019s the first guy I ever saw in Iowa that didn\u2019t wear a pair of blue jeans. I mean, he didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t, either.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I mean, I love Donald Trump. But, you know, with Ted Cruz, Ted Cruz for 15 months has been running for the president. And, you know, I mean, I look at Ted Cruz, and I mean that mailer he put out, that was like Heinrich Himmler. That mailer that came out —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Time is dwindling here and I need to ask you some questions, Cindy. You want Trump to win, right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, yes, I love him. I will vote only for Trump.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute, now. You\u2019ve gotta understand that, as yesterday showed, there are a lot of Republicans, Reaganites like you, who like Cruz. If you\u2019re gonna —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Only Trump.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Cindy, hang on.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ll hold you through the break here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But you gotta understand a conversation is two people talking, okay?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, back for another stab at it here with Cindy in Asheville, North Carolina. I just want to run a couple of ideas by you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know you don\u2019t… You\u2019ve said you don\u2019t like Cruz because you think you\u2019ve got a —<\/p>\n

CALLER: He\u2019s creepy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s “a revival hour” when you watch him.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, I got that. Now, you want Trump to win.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You gotta realize that Trump is competing in an arena of majority conservatives who make up the Republican base like you, Reagan-inspired type conservatives.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, it\u2019s understood by everybody in a primary that candidates are gonna go after everybody. There\u2019s a way you do it, though. I think Mr. Trump\u2019s mistake in going after Cruz is not that he did it, but it\u2019s not gonna be helpful to go after fellow Republicans in the same way liberal Democrats or establishment Republicans go after him when this is a campaign that\u2019s anti-establishment from top to bottom. So —<\/p>\n

CALLER: I agree with that. But I think he needs to go back, Mr. Trump does, and look at the 15 months. You know, I think, do the timeline. I think he needs to attack Cruz, and I think you need to attack.<\/p>\n

RUSH: On what?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I mean, he\u2019s coming down here to the South.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s not gonna help —<\/p>\n

CALLER: If Cruz wants to come down South, we\u2019re hot and ready for him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s not gonna help to say that Cruz is Canadian.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m not saying…<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s not gonna help to say that Cruz doesn\u2019t have a big —<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m saying, he assumed it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But that was the nature of the attack.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I think that he needs to attack him on the fact, and this bothers people. It bothers the people the way Mr. Cruz has ran (sic) his election. It bothered me last night with the fact with Mr. Carson how they told people that Mr. Carson was out. You know, he wasn\u2019t running. I mean, that\u2019s dirty. Now, that\u2019s what liberals do Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I saw that. I — I —<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Mr. Trump did not attack enough.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. All right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: He didn\u2019t pander to the Iowans. He did not pander to them. And you know that. You wouldn\u2019t have done it, either.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There you have it. We\u2019ll put it out there, Cindy. We\u2019ll have people talk about it. You think Trump wimp out when it comes to criticizing Cruz. He didn\u2019t hit him hard enough. And obviously Cindy thinks Cruz got away with too much revivalism. There was too much Christianity going on out there, and Trump should have hit that. (interruption) That\u2019s not what she\u2019s saying? (interruption) Well… (snort) That\u2019s what… (interruption) Look, non-Christians think that Christians come off as creepy. Or people…<\/p>\n

Look, people who don\u2019t wear it on their sleeves think that those who do are creepy. (interruption) Yeah, the fish comment and the cross on the back and what have you comments that she made. My only point is, I know these guys are gonna go after each other. It\u2019s the name of the game. The Democrats do the same thing in their primaries, but they have unique ways of his doing it. I just think that if you\u2019re gonna go after Cruz, just it isn\u2019t gonna… It isn\u2019t gonna help you to try to convince people he\u2019s not qualified \u2019cause he\u2019s Canadian, even if you\u2019re trying to be funny with it.<\/p>\n

And then say that he\u2019s comfortable with people dying in the street \u2019cause they don\u2019t have health care? Those are things that raise red flags for people who are supporting Trump, who think he\u2019s an outsider running against the establishment. And when he ends up sounding like a member of the establishment… That\u2019s all I\u2019m saying: When he ends up sounding like a member of the establishment, some people in his group are going to have red flags raised. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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