This Trumpster hatred of anything or anyone that challenges their hero “the Donald” is part and parcel of many (perhaps most) Trump supporters.
They will say and do anything to support their Trumpking. No amount of sleaze, bullying, etc, is off limits - and why should it be? The fish rots from the head. Trump has run a gutter campaign and so his mob follow his lead.
For awhile Trump (and naturally his supporters) were saying Cruz is no good because he can’t get broad based support for things from the establishment. Now that he is beginning to rally many sections of the GOP to his campaign, they make the opposite argument that Cruz is bad because he is able to get support from even the establishment.
And yes, the Trumpster is not above endlessly posting trashy gossip, unfounded rumors, linking laughably stupid webpages, etc, in order to destroy the opposition. And why should they be above it? Trump’s own social media director was tweeting out this sleaze and slime. The Trumpster just follows the bosses lead.
It’s simple. Around 1/3 of the right of center voters participating in the GOP nomination process love them some Donald Trump. Nothing will dissuade them. No amount of idiotic things Trump says will matter. You can not reason with most of these people. This is just a poison that needs to work its way through the right of center body politic. Increasingly it looks like Trump won’t get the delegates he needs and will lose to Cruz on the 2nd or 3rd ballot, so in the end we will likely get a real conservative in Ted Cruz and the Trump cancer will fade.
When was the last time you heard of the party establishment actively working to UNDERMINE the top delegate-holder, and top vote-getter, of their OWN party? Rather than, say, praising one of the other candidates?
Looking forward to your well-deserved ZOT.