PALM BEACH, Florida –
Now that conservative champion Sen.
Ted Cruz is officially running for president, radio host Rush Limbaugh says the most interesting thing in the
2016 race right now is what the rest of the Republican field will do in
response.
“This announcement today is either gonna a force
a whole lot of potential candidates to move to the right,” Limbaugh said
Monday, “or more unlikely is to decide to abandon going right at all, because
there’s no way they’re gonna out-Cruz Cruz.”
“It may be that other Republicans decide there’s
no way they can get to the right of Ted Cruz.”
Limbaugh said he doesn’t expect that to happen,
but if it does, other GOP contenders might tell themselves, “I’m gonna have to
stake out unique territory.”
The media giant said those candidates will need
“to differentiate themselves from him somehow,” as they wonder, “How can I do
conservatism better than Ted Cruz?”
There is a major worry, though, for Limbaugh as
Republicans go through the primary process leading to the party’s nomination
for president.
“We take ‘em out one by one because they’re not
perfect,” he said. “Some conservative blog or some conservative media type
somewhere is gonna find one thing that conservative Candidate X falls short on and
will say disqualifies him.”
“This is why the Republican Party ends up with
the McCains and the Romneys,” he added. “You have to go into this understanding
there is not a perfect candidate. There is not a candidate that
is gonna be right on everything. … Single-issue politics is our death knell. …
This quest for perfection which sometimes descends into single issueism can be
damaging and even destructive.”
Limbaugh said he is excited about what appears
to be a diverse group of Republicans running for the Oval Office, providing a
stark contrast to the “vanilla on the Democrat side.”
“All you’ve got is Chairman Mao Junior,” he
said, referring to names such as Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren and Joe
Biden. “You don’t have any diversity on the left whatsoever. You’ve got far
left, extreme left, and nothing else.”
He said “the Democratic base is so genuinely
insane,” that presidential hopefuls “have to deliver hate-filled extreme
radical leftism in order to have the barest chance at winning the Democratic
nomination, which does not bode well for diversity on the Democratic side.”
Limbaugh also took aim at the national news
media’s treatment of Cruz. “They are very worried about Ted Cruz,” he said. “I
don’t think anybody in the Drive-By Media thinks Ted Cruz has a ghost of a
chance of being president. But they’re not taking any chances.”
I know for a fact that they don’t think he is a
real contender,” Limbaugh continued. “But because he articulates conservatism
irrefutably, because he does it without a teleprompter, because he does
it so well, they are going to try to destroy him.”
He cited CNN’s Wolf Blitzer raising the issue of Cruz’s
natural-born citizenship since Cruz was born in Canada. “There’s no questions
of birtherism or anything like that,” Blitzer noted. “Nobody’s raising that
issue.”
Limbaugh noted the irony, explaining, “So they
start out by saying there’s nothing to see here, and they spend 32 seconds
talking about it.”
He focused on how many in the media were
“dazzled” by the fact Cruz could speak so eloquently without the electronic
help of a teleprompter. “They were so dazzled they were worried the guy is
superhuman,” Limbaugh said.
“There’s something not real about somebody who can do all of that
without a prompter. So dependent on the teleprompter has become the
inside-the-Beltway political culture that somebody who doesn’t need one is
looked at with suspicion. I kid you not on this.”
See the entire speech by Ted Cruz at: http://www.wnd.com/2015/03/rush-heres-what-to-watch-now-that-cruz-is-in/
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