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This has been a really busy, busy week.
I'm sitting here.
I am worn out.
I just tell you.
You know what?
I feel like Fridays when I was doing the TV show.
We'd have two TV show tapings on Thursday and a radio show, a TV show every day.
And when Friday came, I was just, I was wrung out.
And it's been one of those kinds of week here, weeks here.
But I'm not making any excuses, folks.
I'm just sharing, as you wish, or as you will.
Okay, so what's the big news out there today?
Well, I guess it depends on your perspective.
We have the contretant between Ted Cruz and the Trumpster.
To put all this in context, bring it into focus.
The Trumpster got mad at something Cruz did.
And Cruz didn't do it.
There was a PAC published a photo of the wife of the Trumpster, Melania, from 15 years ago in GQ, back to her modeling days, and it was kind of risque.
She wasn't wearing much, if anything.
Well, this offended the Trumpster.
And so the Trumpster warned Cruz to be careful or he would spill the beans on Cruz's wife, Heidi.
Everybody said, what are the beans?
What's there to spill about Heidi Cruz?
And it turns out there was something.
It would not have amounted to much of anything, but it was something from 15 years ago.
But it never came out.
It never really mattered much because the Trumpster fired back with a tweet of his own.
Side-by-side photos of Heidi Cruz looking like she was mad at somebody.
Her mouth is wide open.
She's screaming at something.
Right next to a picture of the Trumpster's wife, Melania, looking like she looks.
And the Trumpster says, no need to spill the beans.
The picture says it all.
And I have to tell you, and Mr. Schnerdley confirmed this with me today, for the first time, a number of women, I mean, the Megan Kelly stuff didn't evoke much of a reaction from women.
The insults of some of the other women that Trump, like Carly Fiorina and her face, no big deal.
But this one, for some reason, has resonated with a lot of women.
And Trump has a gender gap already details coming up.
Don't know how serious it is, but it's said to be a serious gender gap, serious problem with women even before this.
And this side-by-side picture, Heidi Cruz, next to Melania with the tweet, no need to spill the beans.
Picture says a thousand words.
For some reason, all that other stuff about women didn't raise a hackle, but this one has.
Has it with you?
And I have to tell you, I'm curious about it.
I mean, let's review this.
She had blood coming out of, well, everywhere.
I don't know.
Hey, you know what?
No big deal.
It's funny.
Hardy Harhar.
She kind of deserved it because the way she treated Trumpster.
I mean, this is the reaction people got.
Then, Carly Fiorina, who would want to elect somebody with a face like that, Trump said.
No big deal.
What is it about this?
Is it that there's a picture?
Is that what it is?
Because you have to admit here, folks, that some of the things, and I've got my objectivity cap on here.
I'm just reviewing all this.
Some of the things that Trump has said about women prior to this Heidi Cruz thing, I mean, do they not measure up?
Are they not just as egregious?
Are they not just as over the line?
But they didn't seem to be harmful.
Women didn't seem to be particularly upset over any of that.
Not like this.
This is in its own league.
And then, I don't know if I got the timeline exactly right, but somewhere in the midst of all this, a very hot rumor starts percolating out there across the internet in Twitter and Facebook.
What?
What now?
That Cruz has been catting around out there with five different mistresses.
It turns out the National Inquirer is the source for this.
There isn't any story yet.
It's just scuttlebud out there that the Inquirer has the data, has the information sitting on it.
Everybody say, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Ted Cruz?
Five mistresses?
Ted Cruz?
People can't imagine Ted Cruz ever taking his clothes off even to go to bed.
Am I right?
Five.
And then we find out that it's not being given a lot of credence out there on the internet because it just sounds so incredulous.
And if the Inquirer has this news now, where was it a month ago?
Where was it two months ago?
Why now?
And then, ladies and gentlemen, New York Magazine, Trump's alliance with the National Inquirer is the headline of the story.
Oh, and now this is really getting good.
It's an October 2015 article from last year.
Just last October, last year.
Trump and Inquirer CEO David Pecker.
Is that not a great name for the guy that runs the National Inquirer, by the way?
Trump and Inquirer CEO David Pecker.
That's P-E-C-K-E-R, David Pecker, have been friends for years.
A source close to the Inquirer said, yeah, they're very close.
In July of 2013, Trump even tweeted that Pecker should become CEO of Time Magazine, which at the time was being spun off from its corporate parent, Time Warner.
Trump back then said he'd make it exciting.
Pecker would.
Pecker would make Time magazine exciting and would win awards.
So of all the things that have happened in this campaign, of all the things that people thought they would never, ever see in a presidential campaign, of all the things people thought they'd never hear in a presidential campaign, a lot of them go by.
Ho-hum reaction.
This thing comes along, the side-by-side picture of Heidi Cruz and Melania Trump.
No need to spill the beans.
Picture says it all, says it out, whatever, worth a thousand words.
And for the first time that I'm aware of, women.
Now, by the way, let me acknowledge.
I know that there are a lot of you ladies and women in the audience who are pro-Cruz.
And this is not the first time that you have been offended by Trump.
It's not the first time you've said so.
We're talking about people who heretofore we know who have looked the other way or been unmoved, didn't seem to care, however, you want to categorize it or describe it.
But this one has seemed to result to create universal reaction of less than a favorable nature.
So we don't know where this is headed.
Of course, Cruz has, for the second time now, he has responded in defiant defense of his wife.
Remember the first time we played the audio soundbite of him defending Heidi the first time, and we had a soundbite of Carol Costello on CNN laughing about it derisively.
Got to defend the little woman.
And I'm sitting here thinking, she's a product of the modern feminist era.
She's a liberal media member.
What is so worthy of mocking a man defending his wife?
Is that not even supposed to happen?
Are women so equal?
Are women so on their own that when they are offended, when they are impugned, when they are unfairly criticized, their husbands are not supposed to say anything that their husbands do, and we want to laugh at it and make fun of it.
It's another thing I need to have explained to me.
You know, when is it okay to defend your wife?
When is it not?
When will liberals appreciate you defending your wife, and when will they make fun of you for doing it?
And under what circumstances?
And does it matter who you are when you defend your wife?
But regardless, there she was, snickering at it, laughing at Cruz, mocking him for defending the little woman.
What?
She's a working woman.
She's exactly, Heidi Cruz is exactly what the modern era of feminazis suggested all women should do.
Heidi Cruz tried to do it all.
Heidi Cruz believed you could do it all, and she set out to do it all, and she did.
And she found out as she was doing it all that it was more than she wanted to do.
But Heidi Cruz has accomplished a heck of a lot more than 95% of the women in the media reporting on her and making fun of her and mocking her.
It is just classic.
It's constant drive-by media people making fun of, laughing at gallantry, laughing at chivalry, laughing at valor.
Then you have Bill and Hillary with Bill doing what he was doing and Hillary blaming on a right-wing conspiracy and so forth.
And there was no condemnation of what Bill Clinton did.
There was no condemnation of the way Hillary reacted to any of it.
And Hillary was responsible for it.
Hillary was involved in all of the bimbo eruption stuff.
But I know, I know, it's they're liberals.
They're Democrats.
Therefore, they're protected.
I get that.
I just, you know, look at this stuff that's happening.
So much of it is inexplicable to me, given how previous similar examples have barely gotten any kind of reaction whatsoever.
On the political side, the Republican establishment is all of a sudden starting to feel its oats out there.
Have you noticed this?
I have a political story here, which basically Republican establishment to Trump, you know, no majority, no nomination.
If you don't get 1237, bud, you're done.
If you don't get 1237, you're out of here.
That's what politico and a story of supposed Republican establishment guys sending that message to Cruz.
You have Scott Walker, an early presidential candidate from Wisconsin.
He's the governor.
And he has said that he thinks there's going to be an open Republican convention.
And furthermore, he thinks a contested or open Republican convention would nominate someone not currently running.
Any possibility he's thinking of himself here when he says this could well be.
We also have a bunch of Republican establishment types who continue to express their frustration that Trump continues to triumph.
One of them is quoted in one of these stories, you know, I thought Trump would, I thought he'd be out by Labor Day.
And then he didn't have him.
I thought he'd be out by Thanksgiving.
I thought Trump would be out by Halloween.
I thought he'd be out by Thanksgiving.
I thought Trump would be finished and done with by Christmas.
I'm running out of holidays.
So they're getting, they're flexing their muscles on the establishment side here.
They're feeling confident and Trump's not going to get to 1237.
Some things happen to Louisiana that end up Ted Cruz controlling Louisiana, getting some delegates there, despite the fact that Trump won.
And I told you, I told you earlier this week, we had it in a New York Times story.
A 100-day plan to deny Trump the nomination starts April 5th in Wisconsin.
That's where the establishment plan to take all this away from Trump actually begins.
And lo and behold, we've got polling data out of Wisconsin that shows Cruz is essentially tied with Trump there.
And people weren't expecting that.
So we've got a lot of things to fill in today.
It's also Open Line Friday, which means your phone calls get added to the mix.
And our president, Barack Hussein-O.
In what should surprise nobody, said that there actually is very little difference between communism and capitalism.
Just choose what works, he said.
It was a town hall event in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
And he was talking to young Latin American leaders, a young Latin American leaders initiative.
And he said, there's not much difference in capitalism and communism.
Just, you know, pick whatever works.
You know, pick one from column A, one from column B, mix them, combine them, do whatever works.
That's what I do.
No, that's not what Obama does.
Obama blocks what works, folks.
Obama gets in the way of what works and implements what doesn't work, such as Obama here, by design.
Anyway, that's a brief setting of the table.
Hang in there.
We'll be right back and continue.
I just got another email.
They've been coming in all morning long.
And look, I know it's all anecdotal, folks.
I'm not one of these people that tries to tell you what the country's doing based on what my email tells me or even callers to the program.
But I'm just telling you that there's been an inordinate volume of this today.
Another guy says, my mother was all in for Trump until this, until this Heidi Cruz thing.
It's still, I have to tell you, the Heidi Cruz thing is what it is.
But some of the stuff that came before it's not beanbag.
I mean, there's been really, you think, I'm just confused.
That's all.
I'm not always that it.
You can get away with criticizing certain women because they are unlikable, dislikable.
So if they're unlikable in the first place and Trump happens to hit them, fine and dandy.
But Heidi Cruz is not dislikable or unlikable, and therefore it's over the pit.
Is that what it is?
Okay.
No, I'm not arguing.
I'm trying to understand.
I'm the last guy who claims to understand how some people think.
And I will take all the information I can get on this.
But this seems to have hit a nerve where others have not.
But Heidi Cruz particularly.
I mean, again, I think this is, this bears repeating.
I will never get over Carol Costello mocking her, mocking Ted Cruz for defending him.
What if it were you, Carol?
I don't even know if you have a husband.
I don't even know if he's manly enough to defend you if you ever came under assault.
But would you laugh at him if he did?
Would you make fun of your own husband if he defended you when somebody came after you?
I don't understand.
Here's Heidi Cruz, who has, she is a role model for what the modern era of femme, take the ideology out of feminism.
She said she obviously thought she could have it all.
Motherhood, career, I mean stellar career, top of the ladder career, marriage, motherhood, the whole ball of wax.
They laugh at her.
And meanwhile, women who haven't done 10% of what she's done, you can't talk about.
You're not allowed to categorize or whatever.
It's a dichotomy.
Fascinates me.
We've got more.
Stay with us.
Okay, so we got a full roster of calls, and I had chosen the first one I wanted to take.
I told Snerdley, tell a guy, get ready here.
We're coming to it.
He hung up.
So I'm going to tell you what the guy was going to say.
Now, I didn't talk to him, so I didn't, I'm just going off what Snerdley's summary of his comment was.
Where was he from?
Was he West Virginia?
Is that where that, not that it matters?
I just want you to know.
The guy was going to point out, you know, okay, fine.
Understand that this Heidi Cruz and Millennium Trump thing doesn't look good for Trump, but you've got to understand something the guy was going to say.
Trump doesn't have a pack.
All these other guys have packs, which means they've got an out.
They've got an excuse.
They've got a mechanism whereby they can say, I didn't do it.
I don't know what was going on.
But Trump, he's a real man.
Trump doesn't have a PAC.
So Trump doesn't shift blame to anybody else.
When something goes wrong, Trump takes the blame himself like a real man.
And that was going to be the guy's point.
What is this basically the same thing?
Okay, we've got somebody who wants to make that point.
I guess Las Vegas here.
This is Wendy.
Wendy, glad you called.
You're up first Open Line Friday.
Welcome to the program.
Hi, Rush.
I'm so happy to talk to you.
And keep doing what you're doing.
You're the most objective host out there.
Thank you very much.
I love it.
Appreciate it.
I have a bit of a problem with Mr. Cruz.
You know, he didn't put out the ad in Utah that, you know, Liz Mayer and them of Melania.
He was more than happy to take all the votes that it got him in Utah.
And I never once heard him denounce, you know, or defend Mrs. Trump.
But yet, you know, he reaps the benefits, but he doesn't take any of the blame.
And he never has to.
He can always afford to take the high road because he's got all his attack dogs out there doing the work for him.
You got Glenn Beck three hours a day bashing Trump, and he's made hay out of Mrs. Trump's modeling career.
His supporters, the same thing.
These photographs of Mrs. Trump have been out there.
Okay, so let me see if I understand what you're saying.
The Ted Cruz APAC for Ted Cruz puts up the photo of Melania Trump, practically nude, that offends Donald, causes him to react.
Trump can then, or Cruz can then say, wait a minute, I got that.
My PAC did that.
I had nothing to do with that.
We're not allowed by law to be in contact with the PAC.
I had nothing to do with it.
But your point is the PAC still did it, and Trump, sorry, Cruz gets to benefit from it.
Yes.
And with a built-in excuse to keep his reputation up, saying, I didn't do it.
I had nothing to do with it.
I would not have approved it had I known it was going to work.
Meanwhile, Trump does not have one of those.
Trump doesn't have a PAC.
So everything Trump does, he faces squarely.
It's on his shoulders and he makes no excuses.
He's a real man, right?
Yes.
Yeah.
And Cruz, I wouldn't debate him either.
I mean, look at his background.
Look what he's done his whole life.
And I even had a body language expert confirm this for me because there was always something that I just didn't like about Cruz.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Hold on, no, no, no.
You said you wouldn't debate Cruz either.
No, I would not.
Why?
Because he's so good at it.
Yes, and no matter, it doesn't matter if everything he says is true or not, but he, I knit, right?
I knit and I cook.
And he could debate me on blueberry pie and put me away.
Right.
I'd be at such a disadvantage.
Okay.
So Trump is wise to avoid that confrontation because there's nobody better than Cruz at it, isn't it?
Yes.
And that doesn't mean that Cruz is right about everything.
And it doesn't mean he's more qualified than Trump as a real man because Trump doesn't have a PAC.
Right.
Now, let me ask you this.
Forget the PAC angle and all of that.
What do you think of the tweet with the photo that Trump posted?
The side-by-side photo of Heidi Cruz and Melania?
I didn't like it necessarily, but I look at it as defending his wife.
And, you know, he's mad about it.
I would be too.
But, of course, Ted, he quotes movie lines.
But Ted had nothing to do with it by your own admission.
Just like Trump says.
Well, it doesn't result in it.
He's not responsible about it.
Now, wait a second.
Just like Trump says he's not responsible for what anybody in his audience does, vis-a-vis beating up on these protesters.
You can't hold him responsible.
You just said you can't hold Cruz responsible.
His PAC did it.
Well, Trump gets vilified every day.
Right.
In other words, he has to take responsibility for what your supporters do, and they do what you tell them.
And somehow, Cruz gets to walk away.
Okay, let me ask you this.
I know you're a Trump supporter.
I'm asking these questions so that I can learn.
I'm putting this, you know, just in the hopper here to learn.
Not infer a tone of criticism or anything else.
Don't know.
When Trump said what he said about Megan Kelly, either any of those things or all of them combined, why do you think those comments did not really cause Trump a problem compared to this instance with the photo of Heidi Cruz and Melania, which obviously has.
This is different.
I mean, there's some Trump people that have problems with this.
Why didn't they have problems with any of the other stuff that had happened with Trump and Megan Kelly, for example?
Well, Megan Kelly started it right off.
I mean, she did not give context to that Rosie O'Donnell incident, the show that led up to Trump saying what he said.
She immediately, well, he insults Clinton at pigs, and I didn't see it that way at all.
Right, but she's also in the arena, right?
I mean, you say she started it, which means she's in the arena.
She got the ball right.
She insulted Trump.
And so when that happens, then anything that comes back at her, fair game.
Is that right?
Yes.
Okay.
I don't want to put words in your mouth.
Is that what you think?
Yeah.
Okay.
She was trying to do a gotcha, and it backfired.
And so, you know, too bad, too sad.
Okay, does this worry you?
You're a Trump supporter.
You obviously have seen or are aware that some people are a little bothered by this one.
Are you worried about it?
Well, yeah, and it bothers me too on both sides.
You know, I don't like them going, either one of them going after the other's wife.
But the Cruz supporters seem to be kind of morally superior, I guess, because this photograph of Melania Trump has been out for a long time, and I've had people sending it to me on Facebook.
Oh, did you see this?
Is this who you want to be, our first lady?
And this was months ago.
So they have been using this.
The Cruz supporters have been using this for a long time.
This is not something that just happened last week.
And so then, you know, an anti-Trump group uses it in an ad in Utah to get votes, you know, trying to be morally.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I understand.
Yeah, getting the moral votes.
I just, you know, it just rubs me the wrong way.
So you don't see the day where maybe for the good of the party and the possibility of actually winning the election, Trump and Cruz could bury the hatchet and form a unity ticket.
Well, I wish that they would because there'd be no stopping them.
But I see Trump supporters that if Cruz is the nominee, they're going to vote for him.
But I don't see that coming up.
Pat Buchanan.
Pat Buchanan was on TV last night.
I talked to Pat Buchanan for the next issue.
It's out now, the Limball Letter.
It was a fascinating interview.
And he's very excited by what Trump's doing.
It mirrors much of what Buchanan was trying to do in 1992, 1996.
But Buchanan said that if Trump ends up with the majority delegates, but not enough, not 1237, if they take the nomination away from him, that Trump supporters are leaving.
They will not vote.
They'll take their ball, go home.
And he wouldn't blame them.
He said the party had better be very careful here.
And I heard this, and I said, Pat, this is what the party wants.
The party is prepared.
I've got this story here political.
They're talking about how they're ready to vote for Hillary.
These establishment types are ready to vote for Hillary rather than vote Trump.
And if Trump is denied this nomination with a majority of delegates, with a plurality of delegates, if he's denied, and if Buchanan's right, and people like you say, screw it and walk away, leave the party, don't vote, that guarantees Hillary.
I'm telling you, there are some in the establishment that would love for that to happen.
Because in their minds, that would save the party.
I'm absolutely voting for the nominee.
You are.
I'd be a bitch Cruz.
You'd vote for the nominee.
Oh, yeah, I would vote for that.
What if the nominee is Jeb?
I'm just going to run to, what if the nominee is Scott Walker?
What if they...
What if they pull strings and get Paul Ryan the nomination?
I was originally for Scott Walker.
I was originally before he had.
Oh, and you are a regular listener here, then.
Yes, I am.
Yes, ma'am.
Yes, ma'am.
I've been listening since 1989.
Appreciate that.
Really do.
I wouldn't miss it.
Wendy, I appreciate it.
I really, really do.
Have to go because I'm out of time, but I really appreciate your frankness here, Nancy.
Thank you, Rush.
I love you.
Have a great day.
Same here.
We'll be right back, folks.
By the way, there's an important distinction to make on this PAC that ran the ad in Utah of the question of Mrs. Trump, Melania Trump.
That was not a pro-Cruz PAC.
Such things are not possible.
Candidates are not allowed.
No candidates are legally allowed to coordinate with political action committees.
And therefore, pro this, pro that, what this PAC actually is.
is an anti-Trump pack, and this pack will be running ads anti-Trump that might look like they are, depending on where they're run, could appear that they are advocating for Cruz, but this is an important distinction to make out there, that this pack in Utah, that ran the ad in Utah, is an anti-Trump pack.
Look, you can't, a candidate is not, they're shouting, he didn't denounce it, he didn't denounce it, Cruz, you can't have any contact, you can't tell a pack what to do or not, you start doing that, and the FEC is going to come at you, you cannot tell a pack what to do or not, that's the first caller's point, the one that hung up, the first caller that hung up was going to say, a pack is the greatest out a candidate has,
because he can't talk about them, so a pack can do a candidate's dirty work and the candidate can't say word one about legally, if there is any indication there's been coordination, that, that will get everybody in a lot of trouble, lasting trouble in terms of a campaign, so coming out and denouncing it, that's even risky, because that sends a message to the pack, hey,
the candidate doesn't want you doing that, and you can't, you can't, no coordination whatsoever is permitted.
Now, there are a lot of people, like that first caller that hung up, I'm sure if I had a chance to interrogate the guy, I'm sure he is one of many who believe, don't lie to us, don't try to fool us, we know that candidates coordinate with the packs all the time, you're trying to tell us that the Democrats don't coordinate with their packs, who are you kidding?
I know a lot of people think that's all part of what the establishment is able to pull off, but it's not allowed, there's no perception, you, a candidate, would be creating a lot of trouble for him or herself to acknowledge the pack, especially in an either approval or disavowing way.
Here's Gail in Birmingham, Alabama.
Hi, Gail, you're next, it's great to have you.
Well, hello, nice talking to you again.
Thank you very much.
I've been watching this, listening to this for hours over all the media, and I'm a little troubled because I, you know, I certainly see the value of Cruz, and I understand if it is correct, it's an anti-Trump ad.
But Cruz took advantage of it, I listened to your, to your, to their last caller, and you know he didn't have to do that, it seems to be a pattern of Mr. Cruz, he's a lawyer.
Well, wait, wait, wait, hold on, it's my hearing, I want to make sure I heard you right, you say he took advantage of it and he didn't have to do, what do you mean?
Well, he did take advantage in the same way, you know, he treated dear Dr. Carson.
So it's a pattern with him, and you know, I hate to say this, I'm a lawyer, and I don't want to say unkind things about lawyers, but they, there's a general rule, you have to be cautious, because they're rather, they're rather, I don't want to use the word slippery, but they certainly know how to...
Why will you use the word slippery?
Well, I use the word that you take advantage of a situation to get on top of another and kind of prevail, that's sort of the advocacy game.
What is it?
Who got on top of who?
What are you adding to this?
Well, I'm adding to this, all the Cruz had to do was to immediately call Mr. Trump and say, Mr. Trump, this is absolutely wrong.
I want to stand with you.
I want a press conference.
I want us both to announce that PAC.
You have a lovely wife, and that woman is a mother of a 10-year-old child, and I don't condone it.
I want to stand with you and denounce it.
A good man would have done that.
Now, what do you think Trump would have done with a call like that?
You know, I don't knowing.
I just got a call from Lion Ted, who said he had nothing to do with it.
Does he think I'm a fool?
If I were counsel to Mr. Cruz then, I would have established that he would go, instead of doing the foolishness, pointing his finger into a camera and acting like he's defending his wife, he should have gotten on camera and say, I immediately denounce it.
I'm going to call Mr. Trump and say I denounce it.
I stand with him.
I praise his wife for her career.
We had nothing to do with it.
He could have done that, and he would have saved the day for himself.
But 10 points against Mr. Cruz for not doing the right thing.
I cannot believe that.
You're good.
I have to tell you, it's Cruz's wife that's been maligned, and you're calling and telling us how Truz Cruz could have prevented it.
10 points against Cruz.
Oh, absolutely.
Cruz could have pulled this off and looked magnanimous.
Had he called me, I would have given him that advice.
Don't you go down that road with Mr. Trump because Mr. Trump seems to have a habit of trying to one-up.
If you do something, he does something more dynamic.
And neither woman was treated properly.
Okay, so how do you hope this ends up?
Well, I really would like to see both of them.
I would like someone to have a temperament and maybe have a mediator like Dr. Carson, because those two need to get together.
Because I think the Republican establishment is the one I fear.
I fear, as an American, I fear what is going on in Washington with the Republican.
I'm sorry.
Gail, I've got to get the last word in only because we're out of time here.
You are so good.
All of this somehow is Cruz's fault.
The ad was run against his wife.
The insults, it's his fault.
And now you want somebody who's endorsed Trump to mediate.
Well, I knew this was going to happen.
Now I am hearing from women who have no problem with what Trump did.
So I knew that was going to happen.
It's standard operating procedure.
I was not trying to engender it.
I just know human nature.
I mean, they're rolling in here now.
I mean, I've got...
It was too a pro cruise, Ed!
That PAC, it said support Cruz.
What do you, you can't get more pro-Cruz than that?
They're lying about.
And another one said, hey, these PACs are all establishment people.
You better keep that in mind, Mr. Limbaugh, as you talk about all this.