Infighting Is Funny

Mike Huckabee has been flailing about in recent weeks, desperate to break through the Trump media juggernaut. Today he’s grabbed onto the mild controversy over Ted Cruz’ comments to a pro-gay major GOP donor. So far Teabagistan is mostly uninterested in the Cruz flap and surely they don’t care about Huckabee’s reaction either.

Via Fox News: Evangelist Franklin Graham announced Tuesday he is leaving the Republican Party over the GOP-led spending bill passed last week, calling it “wasteful” and likening funding of Planned Parenthood to Nazi concentration camps. “Shame on the Republicans and the Democrats for passing such a wasteful spending bill last week,” he said. “And to top it off, funding Planned …

The presidential campaign of Ohio Gov. John Kashich has launched a parody website which claims that Donald Trump has selected Vladimir Putin as his running mate. World Net Daily readers are furious. Hit the link and enjoy the spittle-flecked poutrage.

Todd Starnes today announced that he’s left the Republican Party, presumably because they failed to defund Planned Parenthood. Earlier today both chambers of Congress overwhelmingly approved a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill that appropriates about $500M to Planned Parenthood – the full amount requested by Democrats.

Donald Trump today once again turned his guns on Fox News commentators. Via Mediaite: Yes, Donald Trump is still publicly feuding with Fox and publicly trashing all the people who have committed the cardinal sin of not being a Trump fan. As he fired up his Arizona crowd talking about the polls, Trump brought up George Will and said, “You …

Ben Carson is very upset with reports that the GOP is anticipating a brokered convention and might work to position an establishment candidate against Donald Trump. Via Politico: “If the leaders of the Republican Party want to destroy the party, they should continue to hold meetings like the one described in the Washington Post this morning,” Carson said in a …

Via Business Insider: Real-estate magnate Donald Trump tweeted a challenge to Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas on Friday, encouraging his Republican presidential rival to attack him. Trump was responding to a report in The New York Times the day before that quoted Cruz suggesting that voters would start to question the foreign-policy judgment of both Trump and another GOP candidate, …

Ben Shapiro is VERY upset with Donald Trump. Enjoy: “Trump is not referring only to foreign Muslims. He says his ban applies to ‘everyone.’ If that’s the case, why would he quash the rights of millions of Muslim Americans, many of whom serve in the police and armed services? How would he propose to take away rights without due process? …

The American Family Association today published a guest column by anti-LGBT activist Michael Brown who declares that evangelical Christians should not vote for Donald Trump because he is a boastful liar. An excerpt: Should evangelical Christians support Donald Trump as the Republican candidate? I do not see how we can if the Word of God is to be our guide …

New Day For America PAC, which supports John Kasich, has spliced together just a few of Donald Trump’s more outrageous statements. The PAC reports that Trump is already threatening to sue them. Classic. Watch below.

Interesting! Via The Hill: Republican operative Liz Mair is planning a “guerrilla campaign” aimed at knocking Donald Trump out of the GOP presidential race, The Wall Street Journal is reporting. Mair, a former online communications director at the Republican National Committee who also worked on behalf of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s presidential campaign earlier this year, has formed Trump Card …

CNN reports: Donald Trump on Thursday told Iowa’s voters that those who support Ben Carson are “stupid” to believe the “crap” that is his life story, part of a stunning 95-minute tirade that included his most aggressive attack yet on his closest competitor. Toward the end of his wide-ranging complaints about the country and competition, Trump mocked Carson’s narrative about …

Mike Huckabee took a swipe at Dr. Stabby on MSNBC this morning, saying, “I will go on record today and tell you this: I never hit my mother with a hammer and I never stabbed anybody. Never wrote about it either.” Huckabee also slammed Dr. Stabby’s incessant whining about media scrutiny, adding, “Pal, you ain’t seen nothing yet.” Watch below.

The Hill reports: Donald Trump threw the Republican presidential campaigns for a loop on Monday, announcing that he’d break from a group seeking to gain control over the debate process and go it alone. Representatives from nearly every campaign — including Trump’s — gathered at a Washington-area hotel on Sunday night to hash out a list of demands they hoped …

As they threatened several days ago, this morning Westboro Baptist is picketing “adulterer” Kim Davis outside the courthouse in Rowan County, Kentucky. “That man that Kim Davis is living with, and calling her husband, IS NOT! Her husband is Dwain Wallace, who she married when she was 18-years-old,” read a press release from Westboro, according to WPMT-TV. “It does not …

Westboro Baptist says they will picket the Rowan County Courthouse on Monday to teach Kim Davis a thing or two about adultery. Via press release: Kim claims that she has lived in proud sin for many years, divorcing and remarrying, not one time or two times, in fact you need a score card to keep track. Her lawyers, being smooth …

Porno Pete is furious with Southern Baptist Seminary head Albert Mohler for denouncing ex-gay torture. Because in doing so, Mohler has conceded that homosexuality is an actual thing. Seriously. Miranda Blue has the quote at Right Wing Watch: “Al Mohler has given credence to the idea of homosexual sexual orientation. And we know that sexual orientation is a political construct, …

Teabagistan is going apeshit today over the news that the young woman who yesterday confronted Donald Trump about women’s rights is actually a volunteer for the Bush campaign. The Washington Post reports: As Trump supporters googled [Lauren] Batchelder’s name, they found a resume listing “intern at Jeb Bush for President 2016” and a Twitter feed containing pro-Bush tweets. Daniel Scavino …

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy today announced his bid to succeed House Speaker John Boehner, who rocked Capitol Hill this weekend with an unexpected announcement to that he will resign from Congress next month. Teabagistan’s preferred candidate, at the moment, is Rep. Daniel Webster, a disciple of bizarre Duggar-affiliated Pastor Bill Gothard, who recently resigned from the Christian institute he …

Donald Trump is demanding an apology and calling for FCC fines after a comment made about his latest GOP debate performance by National Review editor Rich Lowry, who last night appeared on The Kelly File to declare that Carly Fiorina “cut his balls off with the precision of a surgeon.”