Posted on 04/01/2016 5:15:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
As we say in the South -- it's time for a "Come to Jesus Moment."
The 2016 Republican presidential race has been one of the most rancorous in recent history. The behavior of the candidates and their followers has been downright repulsive.
There are no clean hands among this bunch. Instead of focusing squarely on the issues at hand -- they have chosen to engage in ugly personal attacks.
I'm especially disappointed in the behavior of those devout followers of both Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.
For what it’s worth many good-hearted conservatives have been caught in the crossfire between the warring factions.
They have filled our Facebook pages and Twitter feeds with filthy messages. Reasoned and thoughtful conversation has been replaced with hateful rhetoric and insults.
If you praise Trump, the Cruz people attack. If you praise Cruz, the Trump people attack. If you criticize Trump, you’re accused of being a left wing liberal. If you criticize Cruz, you’re accused of being an establishment Republican.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Is that a scotch tape repair on those glasses?
And NRA...does that stand for “Nerds Rule America”?
Translation: The GOP is going to take it away from both Trump and Cruz, so quit complaining.
B.O.H.I.C.A.
GOPe= You vote, WE DECIDE!
Who is Todd Starnes and why should anyone give a damn?
So Tod Starnes is “especially disappointed in the behavior of those devout followers of both Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.”
Can faux news get any more hypocritical?
There was a time the first thing I would do was turn on FOX. Now, I all but forgotten they exist.
Cruz and Clinton are the same.
Sanders would be supported in installing a socialist regime.
Trump might be a wild card. We can say that about no other candidate.
A day late and a dollar short. Not a chance Fox.
Karl Rove is shilling Karl Rove. He wants to nominate himself.
Post of the Day!!!
kudos!
The ideal resolution to this open hostility is to do what the Democrats did in 1960 - unite the most contentious of the rivals in one ticket, JFK and LBJ on the same ticket. For those who never knew or do not recall, that rivalry was pretty contentious, and they never resolved their personal differences, though they did end up presenting a united front to the American voters of the time.
The tone and content of the Johnson campaign’s charges against JFK’s candidacy made it appear unlikely that LBJ was maneuvering for the vice-presidential nomination. It seemed even less likely that the Kennedy campaign would offer it to him. LBJ was of the “Old Confederacy” school of Democrats, JFK was the moderate northeastern liberal variety, and there were few points of congruence between the politics of the two.
There was a continuing mistrust between the Kennedys and the Johnson, that continued even through the challenges from Bobby Kennedy, but that abruptly ended with the assassination of RFK in June 1968.
There are still some lingering doubts surrounding the assassination of JFK, and its locale in Texas may have been much more than a coincidence.
“Go watch the very 1st debate. The Fox News Moderator clown posse started this “Political of Personal Destruction” campaign.”
They just set the table. Both Trump and Cruz sat down to eat. They could have gone to Wendy’s for a double, but no.
This was a well thought out plan by the GOPe, the DNC and the MSM. They knew Trump couldn’t keep his yap shut and they knew Cruz was not liked. And they knew Conservatives would pick sides and destroy each other.
The goal was to destroy the Conservative movement and because we would rather fight each other for movement purity than fight the establishment and the rats, we are going to lose this war.
Our problem is we are too blinded by emotion to sit back, understand what is really happening, regroup and finish what we started. This is exactly how they destroyed the TEA party. They pitted groups against each other, fanned the flames all the while marginalizing them.
And in the final analysis we will blame Trump or Cruz for this, not learning a damn thing.
I am not a follower of Trump. He is not my cult leader. I am a supporter of Trump. I will never support Cruz though.
Since pride comes before a fall remember...Pride is being concerned with WHO is right...while humility is being concerned with WHAT is right.
God is going to give us the leader He wants in the finally say even if we vote twice. We actually are not in charge of this world
And all of us Ted Cruz supporters perceive that Trump supporters are especially nasty and extremely thin skinned.
I can say I honestly see at least 20 nasty anti-Cruz posts for every anti-Trump post I see.
You would probably say just the opposite.
We're both biased.
We all need to calm the hell down and stop with the 5-year-old "I know you are, but what am I" and "he started it!" bickering.
We stopped watching fox after the first debate. I think many others too. Wonder if they feel the drop in viewership. We also dropped 2 subs to the Wall Street journal which is owned by them although I still have breaking news from them. They were charging somewhere between 2 to 4 hundred bucks a year for their subscriptions. (I had workarounds to avoid those hefty fees). Just this morning I went to my Verizon rewards and saw they were giving away free subscriptions to their newspaper. I did NOT sign up. They have to do a lot, lot of mea culpa to get us back.
It looks like I have to explain something to you ignorant Trump cultists
Oh shut up, Faux News. You threw mudballs from the beginning.
We’re gonna have 8 years of shiite to clean up so dirty is pretty much in order this election season!
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