Infighting Is Funny

“I think that there is definitely still a very significant portion of the party that is a limited government conservatism based faction of the overall coalition. Now the screamers and the crazy people on the ‘alt-right’ as they call it, you know, who love Donald Trump, who have plenty of Hitler iconography in their Twitter icons and names… who think …

Ted Cruz has appeared on Fox News to laugh off the latest tabloid front pages and call Donald Trump an abortion-loving, gay marriage-supporting fake conservative who’s no better than “far left liberals” like Bill De Blasio, Andrew Cuomo, and Hillary Clinton. Watch below.

We love Cruz mocking, but wow this is lame. The Hill reports: Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) is going after presidential rival Ted Cruz in cartoon form. On Monday, Paul’s campaign released a cartoon video titled “Audit the Ted,” which features two characters, a man and a woman, discussing Paul’s recent bill to audit the Federal Reserve, which he called “Audit …

When the gloves come off, they really come off. The Daily Beast reports: During on interview on “This Week,” Donald Trump upped the ante in his contentious relationship with Ted Cruz, calling him a “nasty guy,” and suggesting that he himself could take Cruz to court over his eligibility to be president. “Look, the truth is, he’s a nasty guy,” …

The Hill reports: Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump took aim at rival Ted Cruz in a series of Saturday morning tweets, taunting Cruz over challenges to his citizenship and reports that he did not disclose campaign loans. Trump has tried to stoke concerns that Cruz would face legal challenges to his eligibility for president because he was born in Canada. …

Things got deliciously ugly between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz at last night’s sixth GOP debate. While many on the right believe Cruz came out on top, Trump still won the Drudge Report readers poll and by a larger margin than last time. From the New York Times:  The sixth Republican presidential debate was notable for sharp exchanges between Donald …

This morning Donald Trump tweeted that Ted Cruz should settle the issue of his eligibility or drop out of the primary race. The tweet comes because yesterday Cruz finally hit back. Via the Washington Post: At events in New Hampshire and in radio interviews, Cruz took direct aim at Trump on several fronts: tying the billionaire to Democratic presidential candidate …

To the tune of Nancy Sinatra’s These Boots Are Made For Walkin’, Jeb Bush’s latest attack ad mocks Marco Rubio’s policy flip-flops and his high-heeled boots that the media has strangely obsessed over in recent days. Ha, ha – Marco is SHORTER than Jeb!, you guys! Listen for the dig at Rubio’s age, too.

Over at Trump World Headquarters the relentless birther attacks on Ted Cruz have this morning’s top headline. From the Los Angeles Times column they approvingly excerpt: The principle of jus sanguinis in 1788 applied to patrilineal descent only: A person born in a foreign country was viewed as a “natural born Citizen” of his or her father’s country. However odious …

Breitbart thinks this is a pretty good idea. They write: Donald Trump told Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren Thursday night that he believes Sen. Ted Cruz should get a declaratory judgment from a federal court, ruling that Cruz is a natural born citizen eligible to run for president. What Trump may not know—but which his lawyers should have told him—is …

Rand Paul yesterday declared that Ted Cruz is definitely qualified to be the prime minister of Canada. As for president of the United States, he won’t say. Via Talking Points Memo: “You know, I’m not an expert on the natural-born clause in the Constitution and people have various opinions,” Paul said. “Some people believe it means you need to be …

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest is clearly enjoying the birther battle ripping across Teabagistan this week. Watch below. Earnest: “It would be quite ironic if after 7 or 8 years of drama around the president’s birth certificate if Republican primary voters were to choose Senator Cruz as their nominee. Somebody who actually wasn’t born in the United States and …

Ann Coulter is dancing from her puppet master’s strings. Via Talking Points Memo: Conservative pundit Ann Coulter, who once dismissed birthers as “cranks,” suggested Wednesday that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) may be ineligible for the presidency because he is not a “natural born citizen.” In a series of tweets, Coulter, an ardent anti-immigration advocate, suggested that Cruz was not a …

Donald Trump today finally picked up the anti-Cruz birther meme that has been burbling across Teabagistan for more than a year. The Washington Post reports: Donald Trump said in an interview that rival Ted Cruz’s Canadian birthplace was a “very precarious” issue that could make the senator from Texas vulnerable if he became the Republican presidential nominee. “Republicans are going …

Rick Santorum today issued a campaign ad which brutally mocks Ted Cruz for reading Green Eggs & Ham during his failed Senate filibuster. Via Politico: Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum is taking the gloves off against Ted Cruz in a new video touting his achievements in the Senate and hitting the Texas senator for his apparent penchant for reading children’s …

Via Breitbart: It turns out that the millionaire GOP establishment donor who bankrolled the anti-Donald Trump skywriting at the Rose Bowl parade on New Year’s Day isn’t just any ordinary donor-class millionaire. He’s backing Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) the man who is emerging as the anti-conservative establishment and donor-class candidate for president in 2016. According to the Center for Responsive …

Rep. Trey Gowdy appears poised to endorse Marco Rubio. Therefore Donald Trump has decided that the Benghazi hearings were an embarrassment for the GOP.  Via Mediaite: Donald Trump called into Fox & Friends this morning and had some critical comments about the Benghazi hearings. Trump was discussing Trey Gowdy, the chair of the Benghazi Special Committee, because of his reported …

Via Mediaite: Mike Huckabee today stood by his attacks on Ted Cruz and insisted that neither he nor his Super PAC “selectively edited” what Cruz said. At a closed-door Manhattan fundraiser, Cruz was asked if stopping gay marriage is a top-three priority for him. He said no, but did say that his priority is defending the Constitution, which Cruz supporters …

An interesting interview with the Associated Press today: Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said Wednesday he is moving toward a major shake-up of his struggling campaign, with just six weeks to go until early voting begins to select party nominees. In an interview with the Associated Press at his Maryland home — conducted without the knowledge of his own campaign …

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.