The weekly standard has a piece in it that very, very rarely has this ever happened to me.

In fact, I can't ever remember it happening.

I'm sure it has, because it's been 27 years of doing this.

The headline of this, and it's not a hit piece, it's not a criticism.

The headline's going to mislead you.

The headline is, no, Ted Cruz did not invent the term undocumented Democrat.

Apparently, Senator Cruz has been running around after this spat with Marco Rubio on immigration

and amnesty and legalization.

Cruz has been using the term undocumented Democrat instead of illegal alien as a means of demonstrating

what the Democrat's interest in this whole thing is.

So now that you know that, here's the weekly standard story.

In his current quest to out-trump, Trump, Ted Cruz has begun referring to illegal immigrants

as undocumented Democrats.

This is hardly original.

The phrase has been a staple of the Rush Limbaugh program for at least five years.

And the joke also migrated from the Limbaugh show to a J-Leno monologue in 2013 as well.

If there's any story here, it's that Cruz is making a strategic decision to appeal

to ditto heads by lifting Rush's language.

That is significant insofar as while Limbaugh has not endorsed Trump, he has tended to be

very, very friendly toward the estate mogul on his radio show.

Okay.

Trump is too much to ask for the New York Times and NPR reporters to listen to Rush regularly.

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