Posted on 03/15/2016 4:44:20 PM PDT by RaceBannon
Hartford Tea Party co-founder endorses Ted Cruz and denounces Donald Trump.
As one of the co-founders of the Hartford Tea Party in 2009, I was appalled to read the statement of Debbie Dooley, claiming that Donald Trump was the choice of someone who once claimed membership in a genuine grass roots organization dedicated to upholding the Constitution, reducing the size of government, eliminating government health care and opposing high government spending.
In her endorsement for Donald Trump, she claimed the following:"I have been an activist fighting for conservative principles since 1976, so I reject individuals and publications that try to tell me what conservatism is. I have watched over the years as we have allowed deep pocketed special interests to set the agenda in Washington D.C. instead of we the people. These special interests gain support for their agenda, by even principled conservatives, using their millions of dollars of political contributions."
Does a principled conservative need to go any further than this to see this is either one of the most ill informed persons regarding Donald Trump or someone who is willfully blind as to what is going on here?
Her claim to decry deep pocket special interests rings hollow since Donald Trump himself has boasted that he freely donates to political persons for the purpose of getting what he wants, and if that is not a deep pocket, I dont know who is. Trump himself says, '“You know what? When I need something from them, two years later, three years later, I call them, and they are there for me. . . . And that’s a broken system.”
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430266/donald-trump-bribery-politicians-hillary-clinton-robert-menendez-solomon-melgen
Deep pockets Debbie? How deep do we need to go? Donald Trump has been holding his pockets open for democrats, liberals and rinos his entire adult life and never once donated to a Tea Party candidate, in fact, he funded the liberal Democrat against the Tea Party choice of Sharon Angle to fund ultra leftist Harry Reid.
Donald Trump has recently released an ad on radio announcing his support for government funded health care, has in his speeches supported single payer health care, and has always in the past, defended Obama' health care program. Well, Debbie, the health care debacle is one of the main reasons that the Tea Party took off with such vigor, and now you defend the same government control of Americans?? On what planet is that considered freedom? That is the action of a tyranny, and Donald Trump just repeatedly said he is all for it; single payer, replacing Obama's health care with something different; replacing Obama care with a different form of government health care is NOT freedom, it is just another form of government control over our health care!
Throwing her name and reputation as a Tea Party co-founder to support one of the most opposing forces of the Tea Party is absurd! She claims to believe in liberty and freedom, and then endorses one of the deep pockets who has made it his political choice to support all the left wing democrats and rinos.
Trump donated to Charlie Rangel, John McCain,and the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee. Liberty defenders, Debbie? How about Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and Chuck Schumer, and even "Fast Eddie' Rendell?
People who love liberty and our Constitution know better than to associate any of those names to freedom or liberty.
If Debbie Dooley was actually concerned with supporting the Constitution, only Ted Cruise was the candidate this election cycle that had the highest Liberty rating that is in the race now at the time of her endorsement. Only Ted Cruz kept his word regarding upholding the Constitution, fought against the liberal Gang of Eight whom Donald Trump supported; only Ted Cruz fought against TPP to control the trade deficit while Trump wants to keep it.
If Debbie Dooley actually cared about the Constitution, she surely would not have endorsed someone who donated thousands of dollars to Rod Blagojevich, Rahm Emanuel and Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation. If she thinks that supporting such anti-American politicians represents liberty, she needs a new dictionary.
James Bancroft Hartford Tea Party co-founder Hartford Connecticut 2009
Jim Bancroft on the Neil Cavuto show 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb-SjL2en3I
Only Ted Cruz, backed up by his Senate voting record for which he was ALWAYS supported here on FR, is the real Conservative deal compared to bipartisan Trump.
Jim will back Trump in the general.
Conservatism is out trumpsterism is in...what’s trumpsterism...big govt liberalism!
“I reject individuals and publications that try to tell me what conservatism is.”
Likewise, sister.
I denounce the Hartfield Tea Party co founder...he has become part of the problem...
I was Tea Party before there was a Tea Party.
I was in the District of Corruption on September 12, 2009 for the largest demonstration ever that was immediately dropped down the memory hole by The Ministry Of Propaganda.
I think Trump is our best shot at breaking the stranglehold of The Cheap Labor Express on the GOP.
He has already taken on the Ministry Of Propaganda and won.
Only Ted Cruz, backed up by his Senate voting record for which he was ALWAYS supported here on FR, is the real Conservative deal compared to bipartisan Trump.
Cruz has exposed himself as a lying traitor. In three years no one will remember the dishonorably bastard.
once strumpets stop lying about ted cruz, they have nothing more to say.
Weak trolling.
Rafael should have stayed in the Senate then. He is not eligible to run for President.
Cruz is getting CLOBBERED in the big states today.
I am an original local Tea Party founder and organizer ( 4/2009) I can tell you , for sure , that the great majority of ‘ the Tea Party ‘ rank & file abandoned the cause , and abandoned the streets and roadsides in 2010 . Those that still claim to speak for it are those that took it into various types of 501 orgs and now maintain websites and raise funds for their pick of candidates . It has very little to do with the grass-roots uprising of individual patriots that used to take to the street and parks . THEY are the ones that put the Tea Party on the map , and put the fear of it’s power in the hearts and minds of ‘the suits ‘ , of BOTH Parties . Trump is getting those grass-roots boots back on the ground . That’s why I love him . Our country will only be saved and preserved by the boots of patriots , not the whining and commiserations of politicians and pundits . Boots on the ground - forward to the foe - let’s go
Trump’s conservatism is as real and lasting as his tan.
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