Infighting Is Funny

Today’s installment of Infighting Is Funny comes, as it so often does, via Breitbart: TV host Glenn Beck attacked Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump Thursday, saying “too many people are looking at Trump and believing that man has ever opened a Bible … that’s the biggest crock of bullcrap I’ve ever heard.” Beck, founder of TheBlaze.com, spoke at a rally …

CNN reports: Ted Cruz will launch his most forceful attack yet against Donald Trump in a TV ad that accuses Trump of buying political influence “in a pattern of sleaze stretching back decades.” The 60-second spot, shared first with CNN, is part of a six-figure ad buy that will hit voters’ TV screens across South Carolina starting as early as …

But it was in self-defense! From Breitbart: The New Hampshire state chairman of the presidential campaign of Sen. Marco Rubio admitted in a Tuesday interview with Breitbart News that he was violent with an anti-Rubio protester dressed like a robot at an election day event today. Cliff Hurst, the New Hampshire state chairman of the official Rubio campaign, admitted he …

The Telegraph reports: Jeb Bush called Donald Trump a “loser, liar and a whiner” on the eve of a key vote in the race for the Republican nomination. Mr Bush who is lagging in polls behind the billionaire said he would not allow “someone try to hijack a party that I believe will allow people to rise up again”. Mr …

“It is no surprise that Donald is throwing yet another temper tantrum–or, if you like, yet another Trumper tantrum. It seems his reaction to everything is to throw a fit–to engage in insults. And I understand that Donald finds it very hard to lose–that he finds that very difficult for him. But at the end of the day, the Iowa …

As Donald Trump demands a total do-over in Iowa over the “stolen” caucus, Sarah Palin is calling Ted Cruz a liar who is just as bad as Obama. She rants on Facebook: Thank heavens Donald Trump opened so many eyes to the lies, corruption and total lack of accountability that come so naturally to the permanent political class. And Sen. …

Politico reports: Donald Trump on Wednesday ratcheted up his rhetoric after his loss in the Iowa caucuses, accusing Ted Cruz of “illegally” stealing the election in a tweet that he subsequently deleted. “Ted Cruz didn’t win Iowa, he illegally stole it. That is why all of the polls were so wrong any [sic] why he got more votes than anticipated. …

Last night Ben Carson accused the Cruz campaign of spreading rumors that he was dropping out of the race. Fortune reports: Ben Carson was incensed as the results of Monday night’s Iowa caucuses rolled in, accusing the winner of spreading falsehoods about him at caucus sites. Carson’s team claimed that Cruz’s campaign deliberately sent emails to supporters to spread false …

Back in 2013 Bob Vander Plaats paraphrased Winston Churchill and declared that it would be better to die than live in a gay-friendly nation. In 2014 his group Family Leader put out a video that links same-sex marriage to terrorism. And in early 2015 his group signed onto a SCOTUS brief which claimed that same-sex marriage will lead to a …

And the civil war ratchets up yet another notch. Via The Hill: Donald Trump slammed Ted Cruz as a Canadian “anchor baby” during a Friday rally in New Hampshire as he continues to ratchet up the attacks against his closest polling rival days before the Iowa caucuses. “Ted Cruz may not be a U.S. citizen,” Trump said at a town …

The right wing Catholic advocacy site Catholic Vote has come out against Donald Trump in a lengthy rant calling him a promiscuous womanizer who even opened a sinful titty bar in one of his casinos. An excerpt: Donald J. Trump left his first wife and married his mistress, only to leave her a few years later for another mistress. Reportedly …

Ted Cruz has launched DuckingDonald.com in which he depicts Donald Trump as Scrooge McDuck and demands a “mano-a-mano” debate. The page asks supporters to weigh on whether Trump should accept his debate challenge, but of course to vote you must register for the Cruz campaign money beg list. Including on the page is a video of Cruz’s appearance last night …

In their top story this morning, Trump World Headquarters unloaded both barrels at News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch. They write: In asking the question of “what’s wrong over there?” Trump has shined a spotlight on one of Washington’s best kept secrets: namely, Fox’s role via its founder Rupert Murdoch in pushing an open borders agenda. The Trump campaign is a …

Donald Trump this morning continued his attack on Fox News with the above hilariously oblivious tweet. After Trump announced his boycott of tomorrow’s Fox debate, Ted Cruz challenged him to a one-on-one debate to take place before the Iowa Caucus on Monday. Stand by on that. Below is the Trump campaign’s official statement on the boycott.

For the last few days Donald Trump has been escalating his demand that Megyn Kelly be removed as moderator of the coming Fox News debate due to her extreme bias in being a journalist. This afternoon Trump even launched a poll on Twitter, asking supporters if he should boycott. (Respondents split evenly.) Tonight Fox reacted with a snarky press release: …

Teabagistan’s long-raging civil war gained fresh fuel last week when 22 high-profile right wingers wrote anti-Trump essays for the conservative standard-bearer National Review. Today’s poutrage target on Breitbart is a new National Review column which essentially alleges that Trump’s supporters are uncultured semi-literate hillbillies. Ahem. From the column: Thomas Aquinas cautioned against “homo unius libri,” a warning that would not …

Catholic League blowhard Bill Donohue is furious with Trump campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson. He rants: “No one makes a comment like this without harboring an animus against Catholicism. It would be instructive to learn more about Pierson’s thoughts on the subject. Perhaps she can share them with us. In the meantime, Pierson needs to apologize to Catholics for making such …

JMG reader Nicholas observes that Shapiro posted this rant at the Daily Signal and not at Trump World Headquarters (aka Breitbart) where he would be eviscerated as a RINO. Shapiro writes: In an odd way, Trump resembles President Obama. He’s a thin-skinned egotist who identifies his own success with the success of the country. President Obama treats attacks on him …

NBC News reports: Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are now warring on the airwaves. On Friday, Trump released a new ad questioning Cruz’s stance on immigration policy and highlighting a December interview on FOX News, when the Texas senator stumbled to articulate his past positions on legal status for undocumented immigrants. In the interview, FOX News host Bret Baier pressed …

Of all people you’d expect to be in the Trump/Palin corner it would be raving xenophobe Pam Geller. Not by a longshot and mostly because of that time Trump was mean to her. She writes for Breitbart: Ted Cruz stood with us after we were attacked by jihadis at our American Freedom Defense Initiative free speech event in Garland, Texas …