Posted on 07/23/2015 3:13:15 AM PDT by elhombrelibre
Donald Trump has criticized or mocked conservative candidates, politicians, and pundits nearly five times as often as liberal-leaning folks on his personal Twitter account.
A Washington Examiner analysis of the individuals Trump has mentioned on his Twitter feed — excluding mentions included in retweets or quoted tweets — found that the Republican presidential hopeful strongly prefers to launch attacks against members of his own party on social media.
On June 21, less than a week after launching his presidential bid in New York City, Trump tweeted that GOP strategist Karl Rove "spent $430 million in the [2014 campaign] cycle and didn't win one race." In a separate tweet on the same day, the billionaire businessman called the Fox News contributor and former Bush adviser a "jerk."
Since then, Trump has tweeted a total of 46 negative remarks about Rove and other GOP presidential candidates, politicians, and pundits in comparison to the 10 times he's gone after Democratic candidates, politicians and pundits during that same time frame.
I’m offering an observation of what he has done and what we can expect him to do. He’s a flighty on conviction as his friend Hillary.
That’s by splitting the conservative vote and keeping the more conservative candidate from getting traction.
Did not the GOPe declare war on the conservative grass roots (tea party) voters in 2014?
Now that's a little more like it...
From what I can see, he is mostly reacting to the criticisms coming his way from the GOP.
He’s not splitting the conservative vote. So far he’s at least attracted damn near ALL of it.
If it comes down to Trump or Cruz, even though I like Cruz more, I’m going to have to go with Trump just based on his effectiveness.
Remember, vote for the most conservative candidate *that can get elected.*
Furthermore, as an outsider he’s going to have to maintain popular support as President or the two parties will tear him to pieces.
I’m not saying you shouldn’t back him. Honestly, I don’t what he’s about—if he’s making a sincere run or blocking and tackling for Hillary.
At this point, I am rooting for him too.
Nobody thinks he is a true conservative, but he is willing to fight and that is worth supporting. When is the last time you have seen someone on our side taking to the media and the rest of the corrupt establishment?
Pray America is waking
Not really, you seem to detest Trump, which Cruz evidently does not, in fact he’s been defending Trump lately.
I see him as a fraud, an unseemly attention seeker, an arrogant crony capitalist, an inane reality TV show type of these fad conscious times. Cruz is playing it smart. Wrestle with a pig and you both get dirty.
Spoken like a true Trumpy; it’s also how liberals speak. You don’t deserve dialogue.
Did you not understand that you cannot insult me, like Trump, and then have a discussion?
One can’t discuss with a guy that thinks that attacking Carl Rove, Lindsay Graham and John McCain is attacking “conservative conservatives”. On what planet is that? You should be giving thanks to God everyday that there is finally someone to take these traitors on.
I think you need to learn a little about the primaries. Could it be possible he has gotten a lot of flack from those in the GOP as well?
Donald, you have to stop attacking Rove. Come on, man. Not nice. Bad Trump.
I attack the GOP five times as often as Dems myself.
At least with the Dems you get truth in advertising.
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