Phyllis Schlafly Pushes Own Daughter To Resign Amid Cruz-Trump Split

Daily Caller ^ | 4/11/16 | Alex Pfeiffer

[markomalley]

Longtime conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly has asked her daughter and five others to resign from the board of Eagle Forum after tension spread through the group over Schlafly’s endorsement of Donald Trump.

Schlafly asked board members Eunie Smith, Carolyn McLarty, Anne Cori, Rosina Kovar, Shirley Curry, and Cathie Adams to step down in an April 10 letter. Cori is Schafly’s daughter. All but Curry have endorsed Ted Cruz in the Republican presidential primary.

In March, Schlafly endorsed Trump. She said, “we’ve been following the losers for so long — now we’ve got a guy who’s going to lead us to victory.”

One of the members that Schlafly is asking to resign, Cathie Adams, has previously said that Schlafly’s endorsement “is going to be widely dismissed. At 91, it is just totally unfair to impose upon someone who has such a beautiful legacy. … I think this was very much a manipulation. When you’re 91 and you’re not out with the grass roots all the time, it is very much taking advantage of someone.”

Schlafly wrote in the letter that she asks for these resignations with a “heavy heart.”

“I have fond memories of our work together and our friendships. I will cherish those,” she wrote. “I ask you to resign immediately from the Board, so that I may continue with Eagle Forum’s important work.”

The Eagle Forum in a statement Saturday alleged that the six board members are “pursuing a scheme to push Phyllis Schlafly out of Eagle Forum.”

The statement referred to them as the “Gang of Six,” and accused them of plotting to meet Monday to discuss their “hidden agenda.” The Eagle Forum alleged these board members as being backed by a “big, liberal law firm.”

The statement went on to accuse the members of refusing to return calls and insulting Schlafly.

[proust]

And Cruz will? Seriously?

[Carry me back]

Phyllis ! Go Trump. What will the establishment say when Cruz gets 10% in NY. Lol

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

That’s exactly what she should do.

[Carry me back]

They ve always been on the same side. Cruz being a conservative was fake from day one. There are people on here who think that Bush was a conservative.

[central_va]

Everyone who doesn't think Donald Trump is the Conservative pro-American Messiah is "establishment."

Fixed.

[DaveA37]

“The level of hatred directed at Trump has risen to ridiculous levels”....

Brought to you exclusively by the media and GOP.

[rovenstinez]

Phyllis Schafly, a great Reagan supporter. I wonder, I really wonder if Ronald Reagan was alive, and saw all of this mess, which ring he would toss his hat into.

[1FreeAmerican]

Durbin - there are some real lunatics around here. With politics you “agree to disagree” because you love people, you love your family like a good Christian does.

[P-Marlowe]

No, he won’t.

[magna carta]

Yes he is a populist (Americans fed up with overrun borders, Mosques,free trade,etc) that’s a movement I can agree with. Cruz was talking about religious liberty issues when Bam Bam took the elevator down to announce and plainly state the issue. Cruz’s donors would not abide such a powerful stance. All politicians lie at times to get elected its a matter of choosing the one you see as the most authentic.

[Dalberg-Acton]

That really wasn’t funny.

[xzins]

Well, it’s fairly obvious to me that they all have had their own personal flings with corruption.

Trump’s mom was from northern Scotland, iirc...Scotland in any case. He was raised Presbyterian and possibly in a very Calvinistic setting. Have you ever met a Calvinist who might have been taught that he was elect from birth?

[xzins]

People are going back to the 90’s with comments from Trump.

If that’s fair with Trump is it also fair with every candidate?

Any old statement is actually their true position on an issue?

[Rennes Templar]

“The political establishment’s CAN OF WORMS must be HUGE.”

That’s what this is all about. Powerful, corrupt people only want people who will maintain their power.

[RightLady]

Phyllis has been a thorn in the side of many from time to time. She started her crusade opposing the ERA. She almost refused to back Reagan in 80, because GHW Bush was on the ticket. So everyone on Eagle Foundation is out of step except Phyllis. Oh, well, she runs the group.

[WorkingClassFilth]

I’m too old to care.

[P-Marlowe]

Bill Clinton was president in the 1990’s. Trump was parroting every position that the Clinton’s had back then including support for partial birth abortion and universal single payer health care like they have in Scotland.

Trump was old enough to know better. If Trump were 21 to 25 when he had those positions, I can understand his so called change of heart. But he was in his 50’s when he had these positions and frankly he didn’t start extolling his conservative credentials until he was actually running for president.

So yes, his past statements are fair game. To call someone a liar because they point out these inconsistencies and lifelong positions on the basis that he claims he doesn’t hold those positions anymore is dishonest.

I don’t think you will find any other candidate in the Republican field that supported partial birth abortion, universal healthcare, contributed to Pelosi, Reid, Schumer and who claims to be a Great Christian but never ever repented of any of his sins.

I frankly don’t understand how any Christian could support him. But that’s just me.

[P-Marlowe]

Any old statement is actually their true position on an issue?

Have you ever, in your lifetime, held the positions on abortion that Donald Trump has held such as full support for partial birth abortion?

Have you ever in your lifetime ever said that America needs to have universal healthcare like they have in Scotland?

Have you ever in your life contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to politicians like Pelosi, Reid, Schumer, Clinton?

Trump is as trustworthy as a $2 trumpet. He has held positions that no christian could ever hold, and yet we should believe him now when he claims he is "pro-life"? No, his true positions are almost certainly the ones he held for his entire lifetime before he needed to change them to convince the republican base that he is their Messiah.

[DoughtyOne]

Well, the GOP at least gave us the pretense to blow off steam.

Now they are refusing us.

No wonder they’ve been stocking up on so many twinkies...

[xzins]

They all support partial birth abortion, PM, as a result of no consequence abortion. They have made no statements about which month of gestation the woman suddenly starts being guilty for arranging the death of her child. They just issued a blanket statement that she is not accountable; that she’s being used; that she is innocent I heard from one corner.

So, I’m simply not moved by that argument at all. AND, this no consequence position goes far back in time. We were duped all along.

Nonetheless, I am willing to hold any candidate to anything he or she has said only in the last 2 years or so.

That makes all of the candidates liable for their recent record, and it seems more than fair to me.

We start with all of them being pro-abortion. I checked even with the Constitution Party and they DO NOT have a statement condemning no consequence abortion.

So, we have no party, we have no home.

We are strangers and pilgrims in this land seeking a better city.