The Susan Sarandon-Debra Messing Twitter War, Dems Bullying Susan Into Supporting Hillary?

Although Messing seems very sincere in her support of Clinton, she didn't seem to realize that Sarandon was not going to take the nastygrams lying down. Evidently, neither women learned anything from watching the Republican primary season, where the candidates ate their own with a knife and fork. In-fighting allows a party to implode first so that there are fewer candidates to deal with in a general election. Messing threw the first grenade, and Sarandon was not backing down.

"Susan Sarandon muses tht Trump prezcy wud b better 4 the country thn Hillary. Wonder if she'd say that if she were poor,gay, Muslim or immgrnt."

Kathy Najimy then joined Messing's side, calling out Sarandon's loyalty to "the cause." Rosie O'Donnell jumped in to back Sarandon in what started to look more like a middle school student council b-fest. Much of the barbs have been deleted and/or redacted, but one could easily go back and piece together some ugly correspondence.

"I respect but disagree with @SusanSarandon. A possible support of Trump over @HillaryClinton is dangerous 2 women, minorities & immigrants."

It was easy to imagine Susan Sarandon at home, with her iPad, banging her head against the wall that when it comes to politics, everyone loses a sense of humor and nobody gets snarky sarcasm anymore. Sarandon seemed very frustrated.

"Of course I would never support Trump for any reason. If you watch the interview you'll see that's not what I said.

"LOL that I would ever vote Trump."

"LOL that I would ever vote Trump."

"2- the idea that Susan Sarandon wud say that NOT supporting Hillary in a HRC/Trump race is a legitimate choice for Democrats, is insane."

And Sarandon couldn't let it go either.

"Agreed Trump doesn't, but she is not protective till it's easy. Bernie makes morally correct choices when unpopular."

The battle continued, and one can check it out in a linear manner here. The bottom line seems to be that Messing could not understand how a smart, capable, successful, liberal woman with a track record of left-acceptable cause-backing could not see the Hillary light. Whether the ladies thought better of it, or their reps took over their Twitter, is unclear, but at this time, they seem to have agreed to disagree.

Do you think fighting on Twitter was beneath Debra Messing and Susan Sarandon, or do you think either woman had a good point?

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