http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/02/02/reagan_conservatism_dominated_iowaReagan Conservatism Dominated Iowa
February 02, 2016
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RUSH: The establishment's out there going nuts, folks, thinking that they have made a giant recovery here.
But at the end of the day, what do we have? We have Rubio. We have Ted Cruz. And I'm gonna throw Ben Carson in because this is a crucial point. We have two genuine disciples of Ronald Reagan in the top three places in Iowa. We have a very strong outsider in Donald Trump, who is showing the way in illustrating how to oppose the establishment and what not to be afraid of. And then we've got Ben Carson. And I would have to say Ben Carson is a disciple of Ronald Reagan. When I listen to Ben Carson talk, I hear Reaganisms.
I know I hear them when I listen to Cruz, and Cruz openly admits he's a Reaganite. Ditto with Marco Rubio. So three of the top four finishers last night are Reagan disciples with a party that is urging -- its establishment is urging -- that we get rid of "the Reagan fetish," that we finally realize "the era of Reagan is over." It isn't. It's the salvation! We have tried it the establishment's way I don't know how many years starting back in Bill Clinton's era. We have tried it with the Northeasterner moderates. I mean, we even nominated a nice guy, Mitt Romney.
We nominated a guy who was the architect of Obamacare on the premise that we're gonna repeal Obamacare. It was... This is one of those things Saturday Night Live makes jokes about. Sixty percent of the Republican vote in Iowa last night went for two Hispanics and an African-American, and 100% of the Democrat vote went for a couple of tired, old, decrepit white people.
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