Posted on 08/08/2015 5:37:02 PM PDT by VinL
On Saturday morning at his annual RedState Gathering, one of the nation's most influential conservatives took the stage to deliver news that could change the course of the presidential race.
"If you haven't heard," the radio host and blogger Erick Erickson told his guests, "I disinvited Donald Trump."
Loud cheers filled the ballroom, along with several boos. Conservatives from around the Southeast had converged on the InterContinental Hotel for a two-day conference with scheduled appearances by 10 Republican presidential candidates. As it turned out, they would see only nine.
"Just so you have the context, let's roll the video," Erickson said.
Trump's face appeared on two massive video screens flanking the stage. He'd been asked on CNN about Thursday night's Republican presidential debate, when Fox News host Megyn Kelly pressed him about his history of offensive comments to women. By Trump's reckoning, the questions were evidence of an anti-Trump bias -- and perhaps something else.
"You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes," he told CNN's Don Lemon on Friday night. "Blood coming out of her wherever."
After playing the video, Erickson continued his explanation. He said Trump had crossed a line by implying that a female journalist's tough questions were attributable to her menstrual period.
"I don't want my daughter in the room with Donald Trump tonight, so he's not invited," Erickson said. "If our standard-bearer has to resort to that, then we need a new standard-bearer." (more at site)
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Erick the shark-jumping rino.
Graham is safe though.
I’m happy for Ted Cruz.
But he may have to make a choice, which is, to stay comfortable in the Republican Party only to get railroaded out at the last minute in favor of the anointed one, or cut bait now and join forces with Trump as Independents.
Even if Cruz ends up as Jeb’s Veep it’s still a losing proposition. Assuming they win the WH nothing meaningful would be accomplished in time to avoid the final nail in America’s coffin.
He did not invite Carson? That is nuts.
He gets money from Rush, as a HORRIBLE substitute host. Awful personality, horrible voice.
He invited her in Trump’s place. She didn’t show.
Rush must love him, as he subs for Rush.
What a freaking load of rubbish this is, the likely candidate for the DNC is under a criminal investigation and we are dealing with this? Still, I said the other night, he needed to just proceed with the issues and he should have done this, forget this other.
Rush has backed out of substitutes and surely will with this guy. It's just a website, Red State, I've read it a few times. I don't know for certain, but it seems I have heard it is related to Townhall.com ; so those might be the people I'd be looking at, not Rush.
I don't recall ever hearing this fellow speak but there have been a few Red State articles that I definitely was not in agreement with.
Maybe he just sees it as getting his message out. I am not sure he really wants to schmooze at length with a fellow who deems Jeb to be all that wonderful.
hypocrite
I wonder what he says to his daughter about his own tweets. Salon has a list of them, some of which are too vile to post here.
I wonder when he'll explain to his daughter what "Obama shagging hookers" means, and "what being too ugly to get a date does to your brain."
WE could not even bear to turn Faux News on today or tonight. I’m going to watch Trump on the three Sunday shows tomorrow including Meet the Press. Fox can stick it.
Sad that Eric Erickson is such a weirdo that he thinks of pedophilia as a logical argument.
I keep getting the impression that too many party leaders want a Bush vs Clinton round 2.
I predict Rush eventually drops this clown from his guest host rotation.
I expect she realized he is some kind of deviant after his “interpretation” of Trumps wherever comment.
Probably doesn’t want to get anywhere near him knowing he sits around obsessing about her menstruating.
Bush, Clinton, what's the difference?
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