Posted on 08/08/2015 12:48:09 PM PDT by VinL
Donald Trump's misogynistic rant against Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly led to his Republican primary rivals demanding he apologize for the disgusting remarks.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on Saturday hit the motormouthed mogul for insulting Kelly — and women — at a conservative activists' conference and demanded an apology.
"Come on — give me a break. I mean, do we want to win? Do we want to insult 53% of all voters? What Donald Trump said is wrong," Bush said to cheers at the RedState Gathering.
The conference's organizer, Erick Erickson, cut Trump from the roster after the billionaire buffoon lashed out at Kelly, who challenged him on his past misogynistic comments during the first big TV debate of the cycle.
Trump said Friday that during the Cleveland showdown, "You could see there was blood coming out of (Kelly’s) eyes. Blood coming out of her — wherever."
Not very classy — or helpful, Bush said.
That is not how we win elections — and worse yet, that is not how you bring people together to solve problems. That is not the way to do it," said the ex-governor, who saw himself bumped to second place by Trump's June leap into the packed GOP field.
"Your decision, I think, was the right one," Bush told Erickson, who pulled Trump's invite to RedState on Friday. "Mr. Trump ought to apologize."
Speaking earlier Saturday to reporters after a warmly received speech to the grassroots conference, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz -- who has defended some of Trump's controversial remarks on immigration -- defended Kelly while avoiding a direct assault on the frontrunner.
"I think that's a decision for RedState to make," Cruz said when asked about Trump being barred from the gathering. "I think every candidate should treat everyone else with civility and respect. That is a standard that I try to follow. That is a standard I hope that all of us try to aspire to."
Cruz praised Kelly as a "terrific journalist" who "did a very good job moderating the debate," but also chided the press for focusing too much on the "soap opera" aspects of the campaign over more substantive issues, including foreign policy.
"You're not going to defeat the Washington cartel by obsessing over the politics of personality," he said.
Oh, yeah. I am THERE. The scales finally fell completely from my eyes in November of 2012. If Donald Trump can f up the lives of me and mine any more than John McCain, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, John Cornyn, Orrin Hatch, Mitt Romney, the Bush of your choice, Susan Collins and (insert GOP elitist here) already have, then he's one really bad dude. Why, he'd be damn near as bad as the jug-eared Imam.
Mr.niteowl77
Hey Linda good luck waiting on me to rejoin your party. I have been conned with Dole, McCain and Romney. Three strikes.
It is. Its no accident. Stepford is infectious.
Tagline.
Well said.
(Drop dead...)”Arbusto” Lol funny!
Trump will pull independents and democrats. Who do think watches his show the Apprentice.
I guess there's a large contingency who truly believe this has all been set up with Bill Clinton so Trump will run 3 party insuring Hillary will win. He said he would not run 3 party UNLESS the Republicans didn't treat him fairly. Dear God I hope that's not the case.
And yet JEB! looked profoundly bemused and stupid when Megyn asked him if he knew that a Bloomberg board that he was a part of was sending MILLIONS to
Planned Parenthood.
And she dropped the questioning.
Imagine if he got the Trump treatment.Barbara would have slapped him for his sniveling.
And Prom Queen who just had something spilled on her dress.
FOAD shrub, you insignificant puissant.
I agree with you 100%. This is starting to look like the wrestling federation.
Bad Boy hits girl while the phony hero comes into save her.
Trump is a stalking horse for Bush.
Kabuki theatre’s for the rubes.
I never really believed Jebbers would follow through. He’s got a war chest and no likeability factor. Looks to much like the old man, “read my lips, no new taxes.” The main attraction now is to assist the gangbanger Rubio to lose to Hillary.
You da man!
The underlying question here is "Donald, you can be kind of a jerk sometimes and your mouth gets you in to trouble. How do you respond?" That's pretty forward and impolite, so it's natural that the question would get asked in a different way. Probably not the best way.
That’s freaking hilarious woman.
Yeh El Yeb nice job saving Terri Schiavo from the ghouls who dehydrated her to death. Dont worry the damsel Megyn uses her own daggers quite well. She don’t need no stinkin’ hero named El Yeb to defend her...
I heard that too. I also heard sniffing too much nail polish like news anchors sometimes do can kill brain cells.
FUJB
I’m already behind Cruz but I’m not stupid enough to go thinking like a lib. I’m glad the RINOs are showing everyone their horns. I hope Trump knocks them all down so Cruz can walk right by them all. RINOs are looking for anything, anyone to take Trump out right now. He’s messing up all their arrangements. Until they take him out, they won’t be able to take out any other conservative. They can’t afford the possibility of having Trump and Cruz around through the primaries. But both have the money to last.
If the GOP (ee or otherwise) was smart, they would stop trying to take down conservatives and just let things play out. But they know conservative principles win every time. Their little pretend conservatives won’t last without being able go etch-a-sketch, so multiple people holding true to conservative ideas past the FL primary is very dangerous to them.
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