Second thoughts among the bots?

Is Ann becoming Cold-Feet Coulter? Says, in the wake of the Heidi Cruz dustup, that being slavishly devoted to Squirrel-Hair is like continually bailing one's sixteen-year-old son out of the hoosegow.

And Newt Gingrich lets loose on the same subject, calling it "utterly stupid."

Now, this doesn't mean they've abandoned him.

They’re still onboard, they’re just alarmed that the captain won’t steer away from that iceberg that keeps getting closer. Trump’s fans within the commentariat have, I think, convinced themselves that his boorishness is strategic, something he can turn on and off at will to command the media. It’s served him well but now, facing a de facto head to head race with Cruz, he should be sealing the deal by shifting to a more low-key “presidential” approach. Reassure Republican undecideds in the remaining primaries that you’re up to the job. Impress delegates at the convention that you won’t be a loose cannon as nominee. Attract swing voters in the general election by demonstrating that the vulgar, street-fighting Trump of the primaries was a persona adopted for electoral advantage, one that will be discarded to defeat a new opponent in Hillary Clinton. I think it’s dawning on Newt (and Coulter in the other clip) that maybe the boorishness isn’t strategic. Maybe it’s who Trump is. Maybe he can’t resist attacking Heidi Cruz, no matter how obviously stupid that is, because he’s spent his life being rewarded for boorish aggressiveness that supposedly proves his alpha-male dominance. What you’re seeing, in other words, is Gingrich contemplating possibly for the first time that Trump’s campaign really might turn into a dumpster fire in November because he’s too indisciplined and too much of an egomaniac to fiddle with a dangerous approach that’s worked for him in other contexts. 

S-H's descent into this level of sleaze sure ought to give anyone pause, given his negatives with female voters.

This is one fissure I'd like to see widen. In fact, I'm praying for it.

Oh, and have you heard that S-H has dropped his pledge to support the Pub nominee, even if it's not him? Yes, I realize Ted Cruz wiggled through the same question in full politician mode. But in S-H's case, it was a key to his "legitimacy" as a Pub candidate. Now the cat is out of the bag. The GOP, like everything else in this world, gets dropped like a hot potato the instant it's no longer useful to him.