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U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe introduces presidential candidate Marco Rubio for his campaign event in Oklahoma City on Feb. 25, 2016.

CNN reported late on Monday that a battle is being waged within Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s campaign about whether he should drop out before the Florida primary. The report claimed some supporters and advisors believe Rubio losing his home state against Donald Trump, particularly after the barrage of ads against the frontrunner, would cost him his political career.

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Alex Conant, Rubio’s communication director, said the report of an internal debate is “100% false” and angrily confronted CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on “The Situation Room.” He told Blitzer “that is fiction” and demanded to know how the report was published without contacting the campaign. Conant also urged CNN to “stop reading that sort of fiction on air.”

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To be fair, Conant and the rest of the Rubio campaign are not particularly reachable by the media juxtaposed to other Republican candidates, including the frontrunner. Both Mr. Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz have called on Sen. Rubio to drop out of the race after he had two poor showings in the big Super Tuesday and Super Saturday contests.

CNN’s Jamie Gangel responded to the Rubio campaign’s push back, holding to her original report but stating it was from a single source.

Now, for the tie-breaker from PPD, which is based in Florida. Supporters in the state, including certain leaders in the Florida Republican Party, who claim to be neutral but are in fact completely anti-Trump, are growing increasingly concerned that it is just too late to stop Mr. Trump.

Sen. Cruz, who opened 10 offices in and around the I-4 corridor, is adding to that concern because he is intentionally trying to eliminate Sen. Rubio by drawing votes from him in central Florida, where the senator is particularly weak.

While the race appears to be tightening, Mr. Trump leads Sen. Rubio in the PPD average of Florida Republican primary polls by 16 points. The latest poll shows a closer 8-point race, but still a steep hill for the senator to climb.

CNN reported late Monday that a battle

Opinion

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Donald Trump, left, and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, right. (Photos: AP)

A Donald Trump supporter told me she likes Ted Cruz but doesn’t believe he is tough enough to handle the powerful forces he’d face in the general election and asked me to convince her otherwise.

Here is a summary of what I told her.

I think you overestimate the power of those forces — a crippled Hillary Clinton team and weakened Democrats. And I gather you mistake Trump’s toughness in business for the muscular resolve he’d need in public office — while underestimating Cruz’s steel backbone.

The only way to reverse the statism and autocratic lawlessness beleaguering America is through conservative principles. Trump has no conservative core, so no matter how tough he is, I see nothing to convince me he would fight for principles he barely believes in.

We need to start having confidence in our own ideas and quit being so scared of the media and establishment powers you seem to fear. We empower them through this weakness. Cruz has already been tested and passed. Trump, while reputed to be a brass-knuckles brawler, has already waffled on several positions during the campaign, including his signature issue of immigration.

Just as you implored me to respond to your email, I implore you to listen to your own heart. You’ve conceded that Cruz would be the best candidate in two decades. Why compromise yourself based on abstract fears about a media boogeyman or other forces that surely will oppose him? Cruz’s strength and resolve are among his finest attributes. Look at what he has done against all odds already.

Few gave him any chance at first. Many have ganged up on him. The press has alternatively savaged and ignored him. Yet he has plowed forward and is within striking distance of Trump. He has done so by smart, disciplined organization and his consistent principled message.

Yes, Trump can be tough, but there are various kinds of toughness. The relevant kind is the strength to resist pressure to deviate from core principles. Cruz has held the same firm beliefs his entire life. This is who he is. He will not abandon them.

Trump, on the other hand, is pliable because he has fewer core principles that he couldn’t abandon without great anguish. In his heart of hearts, he is either a moderate with many liberal tendencies or simply a pragmatic populist. For the life of me, I can’t understand how people can ignore that Trump has never been conservative and that he’s never even claimed to have a conversion. If you listen closely, he even mocks true conservatism and downplays Ronald Reagan’s vintage conservatism. He not only has bought political influence all his life but also brags about it. Only moral relativists can distinguish the buyer of influence from the seller.

You might argue that it doesn’t matter whether he’s a constitutional conservative; we just need to shake things up. But please think through this. That the left and establishment GOP have created (and allowed) this deplorable mess does not mean we must aimlessly rearrange it with machismo. We cannot solve our many problems by introducing more chaos. The way to ensure America’s resurrection as the shining city on a hill is through constitutional and conservative principles. The power of the people resides in an enduring Constitution, not in populist ear candy.

Our main goal should be to vastly shrink the federal leviathan — not annihilate the establishment, though it will implode in the process as a direct result. Our main enemy is the out-of-control government that has sucked all of freedom’s oxygen out of our system. We must reinstitute constitutional principles because they guarantee the principle of limited government. Many nations in history have had democratic participation, but none other has enjoyed our singular brand of liberty because they all have lacked structural limitations on government, the primary enemy of liberty throughout history.

As a constitutional conservative of deep and abiding conviction, Cruz is uniquely qualified to restore the integrity of the Constitution, from guarding our nation’s borders and thus its sovereignty to shrinking the federal government and its unaccountable administrative branch to appointing constitutionalist justices to reinforcing the separation of powers to recapturing the principle of federalism and ensuring governmental powers are more evenly divided between the federal government and state governments to upholding the Bill of Rights in toto to unleashing the power of the free market, resulting in explosive economic growth, to rebuilding our military.

Cruz understands and embraces all these ideas and truly believes the antidote to America’s ailments is constitutional and conservative principles. Neither “Constitution” nor “conservatism” is a red-meat sound bite to him. We don’t want a president who will, like a liberal, employ an ends-justify-the-means approach to governance. We can’t have a chief executive or commander in chief flouting the Constitution, even for noble policy ends. It’s one thing for the left to trample the Constitution, but once the right starts doing it also, it’s over and you can kiss this nation, as founded, goodbye.

President Cruz would not act lawlessly — i.e., outside his constitutional scope. If elected by campaigning on a clear conservative message, he would have a clear mandate to implement a strong, conservative agenda.

I believe as an American I have a fiduciary duty to my country, and as a parent, I have a fiduciary duty to my children and fellow Americans not to squander this nation’s future and their future by allowing my frustration with the ruling class to lead me to choose the wrong remedy for the mess we’re in.

We need a particular kind of strength in statecraft. And that kind of strength can only be derived by a strong, unwavering commitment to principles. So in analyzing the toughness issue, please use the proper metrics. Donald Trump is tough in certain ways. But he is not tough when criticized, and blistering criticism is the standard fare of politics. Ted Cruz is the opposite. He would do what he says he’d do; he’s already proved that. And what he says he’d do is the only remedy for this ailing nation.

A Donald Trump supporter told me she

Opinion

froma-harrop-thumbnailHow many among us recognize the name of Yolande Betbeze Fox, the Alabama beauty who died recently at the age of 87? Fox blazed quite a trail through American culture when, as Miss America of 1951, she refused to reign in a bathing suit. The swimsuit-maker sponsoring the pageant was not pleased.

Educated in a convent in Mobile, Fox championed a certain propriety in dress. She found the idea of parading half-naked around America most distasteful. Fox moved on to become a prominent progressive activist in New York and Washington, D.C. She knew at the age of 22 that no one would take her seriously in a bathing suit.

You wonder how Fox would respond to a convoluted feminist debate, one side of which holds that women should be taken seriously no matter how they dress. It’s been expanded to condemn high-school dress codes — arguing they are sexist because they force the girls to de-emphasize their breasts, legs and rear ends. A kind of “body shaming,” if you will. If the girls’ fashion choices arouse the boys, it’s the boys’ problem.

This argument has some teeth, though only baby teeth. It’s true that the sternest dress codes apply to the girls, but that’s because the boys are already mostly covered up. Many such dress codes do include the boys. Arkansas, for example, bans showing underwear or revealing the crack of one’s butt.

The fact remains that in most professions, the fully clothed man projects more authority than the woman flashing her flesh. It’s sad to see smart women on serious news shows exposing their arms, their lower thighs and often their cleavage — while the men’s dignity and paunch are protected in tailoring. Have you ever seen a male commentator wearing shorts?

Many professional women have spoken resentfully of the pressures to dress seductively for TV. So why would any branch of feminism egg on high-school girls to voluntarily do to themselves what their older sisters and mothers are fighting against?

One wishes the allegedly serious media (The Atlantic and The Nation) would stop playing the dope by feeding an academic feminism that goes inert at the street level. Again, it’s the notion that the boys have no business salivating at the nipples popping out of a girl’s spandex T-shirt.

A female student at Woodford County High School in Versailles, Kentucky, was sent home for wearing a tight, low-cut T-shirt and jeans straining at the seams. Rather than help her to change into something a bit more modest, her mother, Stacie Dunn, posted the picture of her badly dressed daughter online. It went viral, we are stunned to learn.

We forgot, the boys and men are not supposed to ogle. It’s their fault. But one might ask Dunn’s daughter whether she wore circulation-constricting jeans and a tight tank top to school because they are comfortable.

Now, school administrators should be ultra-careful about not letting boys who misbehave off the hook. And when calling out a student for inappropriate dress, they should do so with quiet sensitivity.

The girls, meanwhile, might look to their cool older sisters for direction. A style writer observing the innovative summer dress of 20-somethings in hipster Brooklyn noted, “There is nary a spaghetti strap or strappy stiletto to be found.”

High-school girls from South Orange, New Jersey, have launched a highly successful #IAmMoreThanADistraction campaign on Twitter. Too bad Miss America of 1951 was born too soon to turn her famous line into a hashtag: #IAmAnOperaSingerNotAPinup.

That would have made for an intelligent conversation.

Froma Harrop on dress codes and female

Opinion

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RNC Chair Reince Priebus speaks to the debate crowd before the CNBC Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colorado, on Oct. 29, 2015.

It is desperation time for the Republican party establishment. Its extremely well financed favorite — Jeb Bush — never got anywhere with the voters in the primaries, and has already been forced out of the contest.

This should at least cause some second thoughts — or perhaps first thoughts — by people who keep repeating that money buys elections. It is one of many theories that seem impervious to evidence.

The desperation of the Republican establishment comes from the fact that the two biggest vote-getters in the Republican primaries — Donald Trump and Ted Cruz — are people they do not want to be the Republican candidate for President of the United States.

The immediate panic is over Donald Trump. His surprising string of victories in the primaries conceals his vulnerability in the general election in November. Most of Trump’s primary victories were with less than 50 percent, and even with less than 40 percent. In the general election, less than 50 percent usually means losing.

Even more important, while Trump’s style and substance may endear him to his followers, both that style and that substance are deeply offensive to many other people. Polls repeatedly show higher negative responses to him than to any other candidate.

Trump is not just in danger of losing this year’s presidential election, which the Republicans would otherwise have a high probability of winning. He can poison the whole Republican brand, taking Republican members of Congress down with him, along with Republican governors and other state and local officials.

Stopping Trump is obviously a high priority for the Republican establishment, as shown by their biggest gun, Mitt Romney, suddenly coming out swinging against Trump in the media.

After Trump’s momentum from his primary victories, it will not be easy to stop him at this point. But the strategy chosen suggests that establishment Republicans have more in mind than just stopping Trump, even if that is job one.

One of the secrets of Donald Trump’s primary victories has been that the majority vote against him has been split among the various other candidates, making him repeatedly a “winner” with a third of the vote or so, but seldom 50 percent.

The most obvious way to stop Trump, if that was the sole objective, would be for the other candidates to drop out of the race, leaving it a Trump versus Cruz contest. But the Republican establishment has chosen the opposite strategy, wanting all the candidates to stay in the race.

That way, if Senator Rubio can win his home state of Florida and Governor Kasich can win his home state of Ohio, that can deny Trump two important, winner-take-all states. This may keep him from reaching the number of delegates required to win the Republican nomination. At that point, it becomes anybody’s game at the convention.

If the only objective is to stop Trump, this approach seems less likely to achieve that objective than instead consolidating the non-Trump votes behind one candidate. In a number of the states that Trump won, the combined votes for Cruz and Rubio would have been enough to defeat him.

Now that Rubio is being badly beaten almost everywhere, and is substantially behind Trump in the polls for his own home state of Florida, the most obvious person to have the best chance of beating Trump one-on-one is Ted Cruz, especially after his primary victories over the past weekend.

The Republican establishment is not about to go down that road, even if that would increase their chances of stopping Trump from becoming the Republican nominee. This is because they don’t want Cruz to become the Republican candidate either.

Senator Cruz has been fighting against the Republican establishment for years before Trump decided to become a candidate. Nor does he have Trump’s new-found “flexibility.”

But, whatever his merits or demerits, Ted Cruz is not the Republican establishment’s idea of the kind of candidate needed to win. Neither was Ronald Reagan.

The kinds of candidates the Republican establishment has chosen — from Romney and McCain in recent times, all the way back to Thomas E. Dewey in 1948 — have had an almost unbroken record of losing, even to Democrats who were initially unknown (Carter, Clinton) or unpopular (Obama, Truman).

The desperate tactics of the Republican establishment

Entertainment

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Erin Andrews testifies at the civil trial.

A jury awarded Erin Andrews $55 million on Monday in her lawsuit against a stalker who bought a hotel room next to her and secretly recorded a nude video, finding that the hotel companies and the stalker shared in the blame. The decision comes after Davidson County Circuit Court Judge Hamilton Gayden on Friday found Michael David Barrett at fault and instructed jurors to decide if the hotel owner, West End Hotel Partners, and former operator, Windsor Capital Group, shared responsibility.

The hotel is a franchise and Marriott was not part of the civil trial.

“I’ve been honored by all the support from victims around the world. Their outreach has helped me be able to stand up and hold accountable those whose job it is to protect everyone’s safety, security and privacy,” she said in a statement posted on her Twitter account.

The panel after a full day of deliberations said the stalker was responsible for 51% of the verdict and the two hotel companies should share the remaining burden, which comes to almost $27 million.

An FBI investigation found that Barrett shot videos in hotels in Nashville and Columbus, Ohio, and posted them online. However, the civil trial focused on the video shot in 2008 at the Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt.

A jury awarded Erin Andrews $55 million

Politics

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Michael Bloomberg at a news conference at the COP21 climate summit in Paris, on Dec. 4, 2015. (Photo: Christophe Morin/Bloomberg/Getty)

Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former three-term mayor of New York City, has decided against mounting a third-party White House bid. There are no doubt more than a few people at Hillary Clinton’s headquarters in Brooklyn, New York, breathing a sigh of relief. A Bloomberg run would undoubtably have hurt Mrs. Clinton in her own home state, as well as nationwide.

Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former three-term mayor

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Every so often, I see visuals that do a great job of illustrating various economic principles. This Wizard-of-Id parody contains a lot of insight about labor economics. As does this Chuck Asay cartoon and this Robert Gorrell cartoon.

If you want to understand Keynesian economics, this Scott Stantis cartoon is a gem, as is the house-on-fire image in this post. Regarding tax policy, the philoso-raptor explains supply-side economics and Paul Bunyan helps to illustrate why double taxation is so destructive.

You can also get clear messages about why a welfare state is economically destructive in this classic from Chuck Asay, as well as these home-made cartoons on riding the wagon vs. pulling the wagon.

Regarding the minimum wage, I think Henry Payne effectively shows – in this cartoon and this cartoon – how mandating above-market wages is very bad news for those with limited skills. But this cartoon strip from Red Panels deserves special praise because it shows both what some people think and what actually happens.

Amen. I’ve always been mystified why some people don’t understand that jobs are only created when an employee is expected to generate net revenue.

In other words, there are no “magic boats.” Especially in the long run, companies will shed workers that hurt the bottom line.

P.S. Here are some of my favorites images that don’t involve economic principles.

A political cartoon strip from Red Panels

Politics

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Texas Sen. Ted Cruz on the campaign trail in Nevada. (Photo: AP)

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, the man who bills himself as the principled inside-outsider, agreed last week to participate in a concerted effort to stop Donald Trump. With the exception of Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who told Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney personally in a phone call last week he “was not interested in playing these games,” the remaining rival campaigns have agreed to work together on various levels to stop Mr. Trump.

The strategy is two-fold. The first prong was laid out by Gov. Romney during his widely criticized speech in Utah last week. The basic idea is to help the candidate they believe has the best chance to defeat The Donald in various upcoming states to deny him an outright majority in the delegate count.

The second prong is to relentlessly hammer and assail his character, which they ultimately view as the most effective way to destroy his image as a nationalist defender of the little guy. According to one operative, the anti-Trump crowd understands voters will tune out an over-saturation of ads on the airwaves. However, they believe Sen. Cruz, the other non-establishment candidate in the race, holds more credibility with the primary electorate. Thus, the prevailing wisdom holds that if he echoes and reenforces these attacks, then they will resonate.

According to one official, the goal is to spend some $25 million to smear Mr. Trump before March 15 with ad buys prioritizing delegate-rich Illinois, Florida and Ohio. As of now, Mr. Trump leads considerably in public polling in all of these states, barring Ohio. Trump leads Gov. Kasich by just 5 points in the Buckeye State, while Florida appears to be tightening slightly. Sen. Cruz was the benefactor of the effort on Saturday, when political allies of the Bush family (whom Cruz came up under) behind the scenes mobilized support for him in Maine.

“We got a lot of new people out,” an official allied with Gov. Paul LePage told PPD. “But they [establishment] have a big presence up here. Maine typically goes for their guy, who is moderate. You don’t really think Maine had a sudden migration of very conservative evangelicals, do you?”

But not everyone sees this alliance as one that will benefit them or their career in the end.

“If Gov. Kasich does not carry his own state he will respect the will of the voters,” said a Kasich campaign official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to speak freely. “He doesn’t believe Donald Trump can be defeated by getting in the mud or making backroom deals. More importantly, he doesn’t believe an election is worth his integrity. That’s not who he is.”

When asked about the effort or potential collaboration, Cruz’s communication manager Alice Stewart admitted on Saturday that all the non-Trump campaigns have been in contact with each other to discuss strategies to take down the frontrunner. While Stewart said she “was not at liberty to discuss” the content of those conversations, multiple sources have confirmed to PPD that Sen. Cruz agreed to participate prior to Mitt Romney’s speech.

PPD first reached out to Stewart on Saturday, but after multiple attempts received no response. Ms. Stewart replaced Rick Tyler after he was eventually asked to resign amid multiple accusations of dirty tricks in Iowa and South Carolina.

Prior to Super Tuesday, raising the funds for a serious anti-Trump campaign was difficult because big GOP donors were concerned it would backfire and help Sen. Cruz. But after the Texas senator was defeated in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and other states he strategized his entire campaign around in the South, the path to a delegate majority all but closed. Now, they are willing to loosen the purse strings. Further, despite his precipitous drop donors still believe Sen. Marco Rubio will best Sen. Cruz in his home state.

An internal poll conducted for a super PAC opposing the frontrunner in Florida shows Sen. Cruz trailing by just under ten points in a head-to-head matchup, while Sen. Rubio trails by only 2 points, 47% to 45%. That’s much closer than public polling indicates, though it was conducted in the last three days.

But it remains to be seen whether their confidence in misplaced. Sen. Cruz has opened some 50 offices in the Sunshine State and Sen. Rubio’s standing in the polls has diminished significantly, which may be what the Texas senator is playing at.

Regardless, politics make strange bedfellows and donor dollars are headed to groups that were vehemently against Sen. Cruz earlier in the process, including the nonprofit American Future Fund run by Nick Ryan. The group, which ran anti-Cruz ads for Mike Huckabee’s super PAC in Iowa, bought $1.75 million in ads in Florida and $450,000 in Illinois.

“The establishment and the base are normally trying to bury each other at this point in the process, but they’ve called a ceasefire to prevent Donald Trump from changing the status quo in one election cycle,” said one Republican strategist involved in the effort. “It’s a coin flip whether we have enough time left to pull this off. Sure, no one likes Ted Cruz. But we’re all willing to work with him based on the reality. That reality is we’re all afraid of Donald Trump, and we’ll take dislike over fear at the end of the day.”

If the efforts succeed, then at best they will deny Mr. Trump the necessary 1,237 delegates needed to lock down the nomination. But unless Sen. Cruz wins roughly 72% of the remaining delegates, which would require he pull off upsets in not-so conservative winner-take-all primaries, he won’t get to the magic number, either. On Sunday, the senator said he thought a brokered convention would be a terrible idea for the party and essentially doom their chances in November.

For Sen. Cruz, the ultimate goal may be to force a contested, not a brokered convention. According to the rules of the Republican National Convention, a candidate must have won at least 8 states to have their name on the nomination ballot during the summer in Cleveland. In order to be a viable anti-Trump choice, Sen. Cruz would need to remain very close in the delegate count when the contests move to a winner-take-all allocation. Otherwise, it will likely turn into an out-and-out revolt.

That will be very difficult if Sen. Rubio remains in the race, blocking a one-on-one fight for the nomination both top contenders now prefer. Unfortunately, whether he knows it or not, his fellow-collaborators never intend to give him that chance.

“The plan is to block Donald Trump, not to nominate Ted,” said a senior Republican strategist who worked for Bobby Jindal’s campaign manager. “If Trump wins Florida it won’t matter. The nomination is over.”

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, the man who

Opinion

Donald Trump Holds Campaign Rally In Dallas

DALLAS, TX – SEPTEMBER 14: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump greets supporters during a campaign rally at the American Airlines Center on September 14, 2015 in Dallas, Texas. More than 20,000 tickets had been distributed for the event. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images)

Luke 4:17-21 (NLT)
17 The scroll of Isaiah the prophet was handed to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where this was written: 18 “The Spirit of the LORD is upon me, for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the oppressed will be set free, 19 and that the time of the LORD’s favor has come.” 20 He rolled up the scroll, handed it back to the attendant, and sat down. All eyes in the synagogue looked at him intently. 21 Then he began to speak to them. “The Scripture you’ve just heard has been fulfilled this very day!”

On June 16, I was sitting in my office at work when a Fox News update flashed on my computer screen: “Donald Trump to announce a Presidential bid.” I quickly tuned in to the live feed and was captivated by Ivanka’s passionate introduction of her father, The Donald.

Immediately, by the way she spoke about her dad, I understood the family was of great value to Trump. As a father of a precious daughter, myself, I could see there was no hidden agenda in her tone. Her love, sincerity and passion could not be any clearer.

Enter The Donald.

I thought to myself: “Who are we about to see? The Apprentice, the celebrity?”

What I witnessed and what followed was similiar to what Jesus did in Luke 4:17-21. Without a teleprompter, Mr. Trump stumbled through the main points of what’s wrong with America in plain, straight-forward, non-political talk.

“We don’t win any more.”

Trump spoke plainly about the diminishing position of America, and of her greatness. He spoke refreshingly unfiltered but with a concerned tone, serenity, and a large dose of something that has been missing for the last 8 long years–patriotism.

Just like the hearers in the room after Jesus read the scroll from the prophet Isaiah and said in essence “I am He!” shock slowly set in. But it was the good kind! Where has he been hiding? I didn’t know he felt the same way I did! Feed up with politicians who pay us lip service and do nothing outside of taking and spending our money.

Just as Jesus announcement drew vicious attacks against His claim to Messiah, I thought oh dear, the Pharisee-like politicians will not be happy. Fast forward to today and, despite the vicious attacks on the “regular guy’s” candidate, as I like to call him, Trump is still holding his own. The message from June has resonated in the hearts of the populace.

Have I actually lived long enough to see a non-political power play for the White House? A bottom-up revolt by the people?

I hope so.

Trump’s battle with the Republican Establishment–their Pharisee-like cronies and media acolytes–has me vigorously routing for the underdog.

“There’s no need to fear” Sweet Polly Purebred, your underdog Donald J. Trump is here!

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Donald Trump's battle with the Republican Establishment--their

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Conservative talk radio show giant Rush Limbaugh told Chris Wallace during a rare TV interview on Fox News Sunday that “there’s a much bigger upside than downside” regarding Donald Trump.

“His dad did much the same thing against Barry Goldwater with a cabal of Republicans, establishment guys, back in 1964,” Limbaugh said about Romney. “This is not new. The establishment not wanting outsiders, not wanting conservatives is not new… They were this way with Ronald Reagan before Reagan was elected. They tried to deny Reagan in ’76 and they tried to deny Reagan in 1980. They’re not conservative.”

Rush also weighed in on the controversy between Mr. Trump and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, saying the vicious attempt by the Republican Establishment to take down the insurgent frontrunner is nothing new. Limbaugh noted how they tried to do it to Ronald Reagan and, in fact, pointed out how Mitt Romney’s father was part of a similiar plan.

“His dad did much the same thing against Barry Goldwater with a cabal of Republicans, establishment guys, back in 1964,” Limbaugh said about Romney. “This is not new. The establishment not wanting outsiders, not wanting conservatives is not new… They were this way with Ronald Reagan before Reagan was elected. They tried to deny Reagan in ’76 and they tried to deny Reagan in 1980. They’re not conservative.”

Rush Limbaugh told Chris Wallace during a

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