By Thomas G. Lake, Aug 8, 2015

On Saturday morning at his annual RedState Gathering, one of the nation's most influential conservatives took the stage to deliver news that could change the course of the presidential race.

"If you haven't heard," the radio host and blogger Erick Erickson told his guests, "I disinvited Donald Trump."

Loud cheers filled the ballroom, along with several boos. Conservatives from around the Southeast had converged on the InterContinental Hotel for a two-day conference with scheduled appearances by 10 Republican presidential candidates. As it turned out, they would see only nine.

"Just so you have the context, let's roll the video," Erickson said.

Trump's face appeared on two massive video screens flanking the stage. He'd been asked on CNN about Thursday night's Republican presidential debate, when Fox News host Megyn Kelly pressed him about his history of offensive comments to women. By Trump's reckoning, the questions were evidence of an anti-Trump bias -- and perhaps something else.

"You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes," he told CNN's Don Lemon on Friday night. "Blood coming out of her wherever."

After playing the video, Erickson continued his explanation. He said Trump had crossed a line by implying that a female journalist's tough questions were attributable to her menstrual period.

"I don't want my daughter in the room with Donald Trump tonight, so he's not invited," Erickson said. "If our standard-bearer has to resort to that, then we need a new standard-bearer."

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http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/08/politics/t...tate-gathering/

We continue to eat our own! This party isn't going anywhere!

So, ...this guy thinks we need a new standard bearer??? if so, why not let the people decide?

He appoints himself to represent the Republican party?

and in so doing he single handedly highlights why DT wouldn't pledge not to run as a 3rd party candidacy.

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OK, Erick, you're beating that drum a little too loud.

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Quote: Sanguine wrote in post #4

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OK, Erick, you're beating that drum a little too loud.

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Donald fights. Erick, so be ready for the reprisal!

When it comes you'll see that you've put a match to gasoline. Your life better be free from hypocrisy, because Donald will expose you and perhaps embarrass you in front of your daughters.

It's the way of this time. The Dems know all about it. The R's?? not hardly, they don't know diddly-squat about it yet.

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by Ezra Klein on August 9, 2015,

On Friday, Donald Trump said that Fox News's Megyn Kelly had it out for him during the first Republican presidential debate. And he had a theory as to why.

"She gets out and she starts asking me all sorts of ridiculous questions," Trump told CNN. "You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her... wherever."

So how did we get to the point where the leading Republican candidate for president is accusing one of Fox News's signature hosts of going on a PMS-fueled rant against him? The answer is surprisingly complex.

It's not just about what happened at Thursday's debate. It's also about the way Fox News had, until Thursday, been inflating the Trump bubble, and the broader tension between Fox News's role as a ratings-obsessed cable network, an actual journalistic outlet, and one of the most important institutional actors in the Republican Party.

But let's start with what happened at the debate, and why it left Trump feeling so betrayed.

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But there's been at least one powerful critic of Trump at Fox News: Rupert Murdoch. On July 22nd, New York Magazine's Gabriel Sherman, author of a biography of Roger Ailes, reported that there was a schism at Fox News over Donald Trump.

According to sources, Murdoch has tried — and failed — to rein in Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes, who, insiders say, is pushing Fox to defend Trump’s most outlandish comments. This week, Ailes told his senior executives during a meeting that Murdoch recently called him and asked if Fox could "back off the Trump coverage," a source told me. Ailes is said to have boasted to his executives that he told Murdoch he was covering Trump "the way he wanted to."

Murdoch loathed Trump so much that he took to Twitter to make his feelings known. "When is Donald Trump going to stop embarrassing his friends, let alone the whole country?" he asked.

Donald Trump's post-debate tantrum has been an embarrassment. But it's not, on some level, a surprise.

After months when Fox News was his main ally, Trump stepped onto the Fox News debate stage and suddenly found the network seemingly committed to his destruction.

The first question was designed to embarrass Trump in front of a national audience of Republicans. Bret Baier began the debate by asking, "Is there anyone on stage, and can I see hands, who is unwilling tonight to pledge your support to the eventual nominee of the Republican party and pledge to not run an independent campaign against that person?"

Trump had already made clear that he wouldn't take that pledge. But Fox News began the debate by making sure every Republican in the country knew Trump wouldn't take that pledge. It was a question designed to embarrass him, and Baier kept turning the screws.

"Experts say an independent run would almost certainly hand the race over to Democrats and likely another Clinton," Baier told Trump. "You can't say tonight that you can make that pledge?"

And, for Trump, it went downhill from there.

Megyn Kelly's first question for Trump exposed his rampant misogyny in front of a national audience. "You've called women you don't like 'fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals,'" she began.

Trump, of course, interrupted. "Only Rosie O'Donnell," he said with a smile.

Kelly wasn't having it. "For the record, it was well beyond Rosie O'Donnell," she replied. "You once told a contestant on Celebrity Apprentice it would be a pretty picture to see her on her knees. Does that sound to you like the temperament of a man we should elect as president, and how will you answer the charge from Hillary Clinton, who was likely to be the Democratic nominee, that you are part of the war on women?"

http://www.vox.com/2015/8/8/9121377/donald-trump-megyn-kelly

the saga continues....

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/erickson-yes-...-for-president/

Erickson: Yes, I Said Dumb Stuff About Women, but I’m Not Running for President

by Josh Feldman, August 10th, 2015

Erick Erickson drew a line in the sand by disinviting Donald Trump from the RedState gathering over his “blood” comments about Megyn Kelly. But that only drew attention to Erickson’s own history of questionable statements about women, about which Fox News’ Neil Cavuto confronted him today.

“You’re one to judge,” the Fox host said.

And talk show host Erickson explained: “I have said a lot of dumb things in my life that I’ve apologized for. There are a number of them I’ve apologized for. I think the difference between me and Donald Trump is I’m not running for president and I did apologize, not just change my story.”

He said that if Trump can’t take a simple question from Kelly without lashing out like that, he’d have a difficult time dealing with America’s enemies if he were president.

video of the idiot at the site...