Republican friendships shatter over Trump

[Silver Pines]

Cruz is also way too pro-Israel; maybe like Bachmann.

Cruz took his pro-Israel crusade to a bunch of Middle Eastern Christians, who have faced increased persecution if not genocide because of the war of another Texan, Dubya.

This is part of Cruz's religious zealotry, all of that seven mountains dominionism.

Mark Levin talks up a good game, but again, he's got his Constitution worship but low on the accomplishment side per affecting actual law.

@TomSea

Yes, and next you'll repeat your spiels about "neo-cons" and the Jews who dominate Hollywood.

"Constitution worship"...noted.

[skeeter]

I don't consider first hand accounts from Carson supporters who went to caucus for him that night to be untrue. 

Nor do I think Cruz would have apologized to Carson directly afterwords if it were untrue.

And it wasn't the last time the Cruz campaign played dirty either.

Irony alert! 

You Trump guys will never stop straining at gnats while you swallow camels whole .

[Night Hides Not]

Facts are stubborn things, Longmire. Too many Cruisers can't or won't let go.

Speak for yourself and the rest of your fellow Trump supporters. 

[skeeter]

Speak for yourself and the rest of your fellow Trump supporters. 

Retweeting a CNN report = dirty trick
Accusing a candidate's father of complicity in assassinating JFK = not a dirty trick

Utterly hilarious. All water under the bridge but worth filing away for future reference.

[jmyrlefuller]

Facts are stubborn things, Longmire. Too many Cruisers can't or won't let go.

Trump caucus members brought it up. And they're not facts if they're not true, even if you keep repeating them.

[TomSea]

2ndDivisionVet on 2012 election:

"The election is about the lesser of 2 evils... if you're a dumb ___"

We heard the same thing when Romney ran.

Maybe it's true; but I'm not going to hand-wring over the same argument that got us Obama for 4 more years.

[Jazzhead]

If any of my friends are Trump supporters, they're keeping it well hidden from me.   And that's the way it should be.  I want this damned election over and done with. 

[Idaho_Cowboy]

Cruz is also way too pro-Israel; maybe like Bachmann.

Cruz took his pro-Israel crusade to a bunch of Middle Eastern Christians, who have faced increased persecution if not genocide because of the war of another Texan, Dubya.

This is part of Cruz's religious zealotry, all of that seven mountains dominionism.

Mark Levin talks up a good game, but again, he's got his Constitution worship but low on the accomplishment side per affecting actual law.

I sure hope Trump has an answer to our Jewish problem.

[Cripplecreek]

I sure hope Trump has an answer to our Jewish problem.

Well his buddy General Flynn says that Israel needs to disarm to bring peace to the mideast.

[TomSea]

We can all be like CrippleCreek, Never Romney, Never Trump,

Be principled backing up someone who has never had a leadership position like governor and who has minimal accomplishments to such governors in enacting real law.

[INVAR]

Trump's fruits and the spirit that dominates his campaign is one that divides and sows more discord among countrymen along fault lines not even the Democrats were able to exploit.

Such are DANGEROUS and UNGODLY FRUITS.

Nothing good comes of this.

Nothing.

[TomSea]

Stopping heroin at the border, illegal immigration, pretty sure someone is tuned into this problem. Got my vote as Ted Cruz had my vote as well. Except I would have surely gotten into helping Cruz in every way possible.

[INVAR]

We can all be like CrippleCreek, Never Romney, Never Trump,

Be principled backing up someone who has never had a leadership position like governor and who has minimal accomplishments to such governors in enacting real law.

Yeah well, I respect CrippleCreek a hell of a lot more than I respect you.

[Sanguine]

The Cruz campaign had these tricks happening in Nevada, Iowa, Carolinas, Hawaii. Once is a mistake, there was a real pattern; and taking a video where Rubio says "That book has all the answers" and changing it to Rubio saying "That book does not have many answers" speaks for itself. Too many of these incidences to say "well, staffers did that, not Cruz".

That reminds me, the Rubio people tweeted the same stuff the Cruz people did.  I don't think they apologized though.  Maybe that's the difference.

[Restored]

It comes down to "Who do you trust least?". Then vote for the other person.

[Cripplecreek]

That reminds me, the Rubio people tweeted the same stuff the Cruz people did.  I don't think they apologized though.  Maybe that's the difference.

I know people who caucused for Santorum who said they were hearing the same out of his campaign people.

[Sanguine]

You Trump guys will never stop straining at gnats while you swallow camels whole .

That is perfect, Skeeter!

[driftdiver]

I sure hope Trump has an answer to our Jewish problem.

@TomSea  @Idaho_Cowboy

"Constitution worship"???

"too pro-Israel; maybe like Bachmann."

"Cruz took his pro-Israel crusade to a bunch of Middle Eastern Christians, who have faced increased persecution if not genocide because of the war of another Texan, Dubya."

" part of Cruz's religious zealotry"

I guess we know where Tom is coming from but then its really no surprise considering his past postings.  Anti-Constitution, anti-Isreal, anti-Christian

I wonder if those are in the job description for trumps trolls?

[INVAR]

@TomSea  @Idaho_Cowboy

"Constitution worship"???

"too pro-Israel; maybe like Bachmann."

"Cruz took his pro-Israel crusade to a bunch of Middle Eastern Christians, who have faced increased persecution if not genocide because of the war of another Texan, Dubya."

" part of Cruz's religious zealotry"

I guess we know where Tom is coming from but then its really no surprise considering his past postings.  Anti-Constitution, anti-Isreal, anti-Christian

I wonder if those are in the job description for trumps trolls?

They're liberals pretending to be Conservatives.

Which is why Trump's lifelong NY Democrat activism and his Leftist proposals and policy programs are perfectly good for them.

[Emjay]

The vibe he says he’s getting is: “You’re out of the club.”

This is such a sad story it brought me to tears. These poor elitist beltway lizards are not getting invites to cocktail parties anymore? Where is the justice?

I don't know when anything has hurt me this much.  Sob.

[Emjay]

The point is how much better are the records of accomplishments are that the governors who have run, they've actually accomplished things and they have actually had to lead. It be Pence, Perry, Walker, Kasich and so on.

Cannot you little trumpers get Cruz out of your heads for one minute?

Didn't think so.

[jmyrlefuller]

We can all be like CrippleCreek, Never Romney, Never Trump,

Be principled backing up someone who has never had a leadership position like governor and who has minimal accomplishments to such governors in enacting real law.

What state has Trump governed again?

[XenaLee]

By Jonathan Swan - 09/19/16 06:00 AM EDT

A few months ago, Matt Schlapp, the former White House political director under president George W. Bush, walked into a cocktail party and tried to join a conversation with Republican consultants he has known for years.

“The conversation quickly ended,” Schlapp, the chairman of the nation’s oldest conservative grassroots organization, told The Hill in a recent interview. “Everyone looked down at their expensive loafers.”

“I hadn’t had that happen to me in a professional setting before,” he added. “It’s one of those moments when you wonder, ‘hey, do I have something on my face?’”

Schlapp’s decision to support Donald Trump for president has cost him friends in Washington’s elite Republican circles. Invitations he would normally receive no longer arrive. The vibe he says he’s getting is: “You’re out of the club.”

more
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/296331-republican-friendships-shatter-over-trump

Perhaps Schlapp should consider a tic-tac.   

It seems much more likely that the reverse scenario is accurate.  That those that have decided to NOT support Trump has 'cost them friends'.  That's the reality that I'm seeing in the real world, at least.

[chae]

So the author of this piece has allied himself with a group of people who are ok with their candidate talking about shooting random people walking down the street, and  have been advocating for re-education camps and/or roving death squads executing anyone who didn't vote for Trump.
Yeah, I can totally see where people would find that off-putting.

[chae]

@XenaLee

I was just wondering how many of these friends do you think got tired of listening to him berating them to "get on the Trump train"