Ben Shapiro's Advice for Cruz
RUSH: I've just come across a fascinating piece I peer by Ben Shapiro who is writing at the DailyWire.com. He also writes some things at Breitbart, and he is a really bright young conservative out of California. He has a piece here on what Ted Cruz has to do. There's only one thing Ted Cruz can do now, and he's got to do it in the next debate. If Cruz wants to win, he's gotta drop and everything and just focus totally on destroying Trump, and not with issues. "If Cruz Wants to Win, Thursday Night He'll Have to Clock Trump with Everything He's Got -- And More."
Now, before setting up with the specifics of his suggestions, some table-setting. "Rubio Will Never Drop Out. The Cruz campaign seems to be under the bizarre misimpression that if Marco Rubio underperforms on March 1 and March 5, he'll drop out of the race. This is nonsense," Shapiro writes. "The Rubio campaign has already picked up the Jeb! Bush money train, and they're cultivating the establishment endorsements they think will be necessary to push Rubio to victory on March 15." That's true, by the way.
Rubio is the establishment's guy from now to the rest of this campaign. There isn't... If something happens to Rubio, the establishment's done. They're not gonna go to Cruz, they won't go to Trump, and Kasich's not gonna do anything. Carson... Their eggs are now all in the Rubio basket. Rubio's not dropping out. No matter what he's not dropping out, and Shapiro's point is that Cruz had better realize this. Therefore: "If Rubio Won't Drop Out, Rubio Isn't Cruz's Obstacle." Cruz and Rubio both seem to think that each other are the obstacle, and I happen to agree with Shapiro on this.
I think that's not the way to look at this. Here are the specifics of what Shapiro thinks that Cruz has to do on Thursday night in the next debate. He says that Cruz "should face down Trump and say to him, 'Donald...'" You know, after a Trump insult or similar comment, that Cruz should say something like this: "Donald, for months, everybody has been tiptoeing around you out of courtesy. Enough. We all know you're a spoiled brat who's never had anybody say no to him. You're a pathetic, bloated old man who stood on daddy's money stack to make billions, and then can't shut up about how he's a self-made man.
"You're a ridiculous dolt who lies about his politics, brags about having sex with married women, and shafts little old ladies for cash. And every time you are attacked, your face turns as red as the Kool-Aid man -- just like it's doing now. Then you cite polls, as though polls make you not all those things. They don't. You're just as much of a ridiculous clown as you ever were." Then Shapiro says, "If Trump tries to interrupt him, Cruz will have to tell him to shut the hell up, and then not back down. It will be brutal. But if Cruz wants to win, he's going to have no other choice.
"Trump won't be defeated so long as both Cruz and Rubio are in the race, and Rubio's going nowhere. Somebody's going to have to knock King Trump off," if anybody else is going to win this. So that, I think, is a measure of the frustration that is out there. And there is a lot of it, folks. There is a lot of frustration out there in the anti-Trump campaign that Trump is getting away with so much that people are afraid to call Trump on anything. They're afraid to do anything other than tiptoe around Trump. And that's because everybody's afraid of the people that support Trump.
They don't want to tick 'em off, because if you take Trump out you need to get his voters. And if you do Trump wrong, you might tick off his voters to the point that they'll just sit home and not vote. So it's a delicate thing. But the anti-Trump frustration is sizable, and part of the anti-Trump frustration is not just anti-Trump. I mean, there are a lot of Rubio supporters who wish Rubio were doing things differently, like Cruz supporters, like Shapiro here
. They wish that Cruz were doing things differently. And depending on where you go, you can see all the advice that's being written for both Rubio and Cruz over how to do this.
Shapiro is the latest to weigh in here. So I just wanted to share that with you.
http://www.dailywire.com/news/3638/if-cruz-wants-win-tomorrow-night-hell-have-clock-ben-shapiro
RUSH: I've just come across a fascinating piece I peer by Ben Shapiro who is writing at the DailyWire.com. He also writes some things at Breitbart, and he is a really bright young conservative out of California. He has a piece here on what Ted Cruz has to do. There's only one thing Ted Cruz can do now, and he's got to do it in the next debate. If Cruz wants to win, he's gotta drop and everything and just focus totally on destroying Trump, and not with issues. "If Cruz Wants to Win, Thursday Night He'll Have to Clock Trump with Everything He's Got -- And More."
Now, before setting up with the specifics of his suggestions, some table-setting. "Rubio Will Never Drop Out. The Cruz campaign seems to be under the bizarre misimpression that if Marco Rubio underperforms on March 1 and March 5, he'll drop out of the race. This is nonsense," Shapiro writes. "The Rubio campaign has already picked up the Jeb! Bush money train, and they're cultivating the establishment endorsements they think will be necessary to push Rubio to victory on March 15." That's true, by the way.
Rubio is the establishment's guy from now to the rest of this campaign. There isn't... If something happens to Rubio, the establishment's done. They're not gonna go to Cruz, they won't go to Trump, and Kasich's not gonna do anything. Carson... Their eggs are now all in the Rubio basket. Rubio's not dropping out. No matter what he's not dropping out, and Shapiro's point is that Cruz had better realize this. Therefore: "If Rubio Won't Drop Out, Rubio Isn't Cruz's Obstacle." Cruz and Rubio both seem to think that each other are the obstacle, and I happen to agree with Shapiro on this.
I think that's not the way to look at this. Here are the specifics of what Shapiro thinks that Cruz has to do on Thursday night in the next debate. He says that Cruz "should face down Trump and say to him, 'Donald...'" You know, after a Trump insult or similar comment, that Cruz should say something like this: "Donald, for months, everybody has been tiptoeing around you out of courtesy. Enough. We all know you're a spoiled brat who's never had anybody say no to him. You're a pathetic, bloated old man who stood on daddy's money stack to make billions, and then can't shut up about how he's a self-made man.
"You're a ridiculous dolt who lies about his politics, brags about having sex with married women, and shafts little old ladies for cash. And every time you are attacked, your face turns as red as the Kool-Aid man -- just like it's doing now. Then you cite polls, as though polls make you not all those things. They don't. You're just as much of a ridiculous clown as you ever were." Then Shapiro says, "If Trump tries to interrupt him, Cruz will have to tell him to shut the hell up, and then not back down. It will be brutal. But if Cruz wants to win, he's going to have no other choice.
"Trump won't be defeated so long as both Cruz and Rubio are in the race, and Rubio's going nowhere. Somebody's going to have to knock King Trump off," if anybody else is going to win this. So that, I think, is a measure of the frustration that is out there. And there is a lot of it, folks. There is a lot of frustration out there in the anti-Trump campaign that Trump is getting away with so much that people are afraid to call Trump on anything. They're afraid to do anything other than tiptoe around Trump. And that's because everybody's afraid of the people that support Trump.
They don't want to tick 'em off, because if you take Trump out you need to get his voters. And if you do Trump wrong, you might tick off his voters to the point that they'll just sit home and not vote. So it's a delicate thing. But the anti-Trump frustration is sizable, and part of the anti-Trump frustration is not just anti-Trump. I mean, there are a lot of Rubio supporters who wish Rubio were doing things differently, like Cruz supporters, like Shapiro here
. They wish that Cruz were doing things differently. And depending on where you go, you can see all the advice that's being written for both Rubio and Cruz over how to do this.
Shapiro is the latest to weigh in here. So I just wanted to share that with you.
http://www.dailywire.com/news/3638/if-cruz-wants-win-tomorrow-night-hell-have-clock-ben-shapiro