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.
Has anybody apologized for the murder of Kathryn Steinle?
You may be right,
I see her as a woman who didn’t make the cheer leading squad or prom queen, and has never gotten over it.
= :^)
Who TF is this Bush fella?
You’re absolutely right, except that wasn’t the question asked, and this wasn’t “the View”.
You know I have been thinking about these gay, race and women playbooks. I think just to be fair to all, every subgroup should have one. You know like the sexual subgroups in our culture here in U.S. For example,
hairy girls,
short, hairy girls
tall, hairy girls
short, bald girls
tall, bald girls
mean hairy girls
mean short, hairy girls
mean, tall, hairy girls
sweet, hairy girls
sweet, short, hairy girls
sweet, tall, hairy girls
short transgender hairy girls
short, mean, transgender hairy girls
short, mean, transgender, bald girls
Well anyway you get the idea. I don’t want anyone left out.
Is wittle Jebby’s feewings hurt again!?
He’s just so sensitive, it’s adorable in a projectile vomit sort of way.
If they weren’t going after Trump, they would be going after Cruz!
So that is what is wrong with them? I never knew that. Makes sense.
Too funny! She may not been able to breath in that spray on dress either. You may be on to something.
Yea, she’s obviously bleeding from somewhere. I can say that I am a woman. But let a man say it and women go ape crap. My husband has grown a sixth sense for my hormonal moments. He just says I’ll be in the man cave. We laugh and move to the next thing.
It was a Fox News panel discussion where they called Cruz a pitbull (I think it was Cruz) and Bush a metro-sexual purse dog. I shortened it to purse puppy.
I may be remembering the source wrong. I think it was Fox News. But the Jeb Bush as a metro-sexual purse dog was the key thing.
Time would have taken care of Trump gracefully but no the Big ,mouth establishment gotta screw with a caged lion and push him into a third party run. The ignorant GOP is screwing themselves and Fox is setting up for a Hillary victory.
Jeb is just getting in touch with his famine side.( pussie) Say something about the girls like him and Linda and he will hit you with his purse.
She was shooting daggers at him from her eyes.
He termed it shooting blood at him from her eye(s).
This was not about the other thing.
I linked the one minute clip up thread.
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