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
Hard to believe what people are being allowed to get away with calling him here now as they stumble all over themselves to support a dealmaking reality star who claims to have recently converted to conservatism.
Man, those grapes are sour.
Exactly how many tea party founders are there?
And there shall be much gnashing of the teeth.
Cruz was an establishment shill that fooled a few people, but not me.
What are you talking about?
That’s what it boils down to.
boy, did you hit the nail on the head
How ironic. Indeed
Your support for our Freedom to speak openly about a candidate the way we wish is similar to your candidates support for the freedoms of Chicago Trump supporters.
once strumpets stop lying about ted cruz, they have nothing more to say
Is that your way of trying to sound intelligent? Didn’t work...
You make no sense.
Since I’ve been on FR all I’ve read is how a true conservative would carry the day hands down. Either Cruz doesn’t fulfill the criteria OR all that chatter was simply that. Chatter. Meaningless chatter.
Yeah, I'm coming to grips with that.
Oh well, here's hoping for the best & expecting the worst.
The GOPe co-opted the Tea Party. And used us all.
If you overlook most of his work with the GW Bush admin, his vote on the Corker Bill, his vote for TPA cloture, his support for TPP, his desire to increase H1B visas 5X for years, his desire to double legal immigration, his wife’s Bush admin and CFR work and the whole Goldman Sachs thing, Cruz seems almost like he isn’t a GOPe insider.
carrying the dirty water, eh
Sad thing is, most of you KNOW Canada is duel citizenship country - and that his US citizenship was and is just a valid.
and you know that
Like that Meme. It’s so true. The masses think he’s changed his spots. We’ll see I guess.
I’m a part of the CT tea party. Never heard of her.
Ted Cruz is a good man, a strong conservative candidate. He would make a wonderful President.
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