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
I guess this guy has found a way to look past Ted’s aligning with Sanders and BLM/Moveon/La Raza and Soros by attacking Trump and blaming him. Sad to see this but the State Chairman in Ct backs Trump he understands what freedom of speech means.
wow, that was so far from reality...
True.
“the great majority of ‘the Tea Party’ rank & file abandoned the cause”
A wise man once said that every organization has people who belong to it, and a few people who think it belongs to them.
That sort of person, and it is a personality type, quickly moved into the Tea Party and appointed themselves its leaders.
We didn’t abandon the Tea Party; we were driven out by those who were more concerned with being in charge than with the Tea Party’s goals.
“he funded the liberal Democrat against the Tea Party choice of Sharon Angle to”
Good grief! The entire RNC did all they could to stop Angle. She was a joke of a candidate to start with.
proving Ted Cruz is the outsider, because Trump funded all the rinos of the republican party, thanks!
Anyone advocating a 500% increase in H-1B visas is a gloBULList shill and no patriot. “Conservatism” be damned then.
It is Down to Cruz vs the Chameleon.
Many are choosing the Limousine Loudmouth, but I'm picking the man of Persistent Principal.
You sure her name was “Susan” Angle?
Right, Sharon Angel, who was despised by Trump, because he preferred the insanely liberal Harry Reid. Not 30 years ago, not 20 , not 10, but 5 years ago.
I cannot take Trump seriously.
I can agree with that
In our case , we were infiltrated and subsumed by the local state Republican committee minions , who were under direct orders and admonitions from Karl Rove to disperse, discourage and disempower the movement .
“I am afraid that he (Trump) is The wolf in sheep’s clothing; a Trojan horse to break up the Republican party and get hitlery elected.”
That’s illogical.
If Trump’s goal was to end the GOP and elect Hillary, then he would have sat this out. Had Trump not entered the race, Jeb would be well on his way to winning the nomination, and Jeb never had a snowball’s chance of beating Hillary.
And, if you think Cruz would be winning if Trump hadn’t entered the race, then I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn I’d like to sell you. The process was rigged to prevent anyone like Cruz from winning the nomination. Trump threw a monkey wrench in their well laid plans, and that is the ONLY reason Cruz has a shot—the only one. Without Trump, Cruz would already be toast.
Without Trump, Jeb is the nominee and Hillary wins in a landslide.
If Trump wanted to elect Hillary, why would he have disrupted the GOP’s plan to hand Hillary the presidency on a silver platter?
Then trump is a globalist as he’s advocated increasing h1b visas and hires h2b visa workers at his florida resorts
I think that the reason the party hates him so much and is reluctant to support him is because they know this.
This is going to blow up in their face. So far, Graham is the only one willing to take a hit for it.
For the millionth time, you are a liar and you know you’re lying.
And rightly so. Trump is a lifelong liberal/progressive. he believes in executive government, like 0bama. He supports touchback amnesty, although he refuses to allow anyone to call it that.
it slays me
his entire adult life, he was no where near the republican party in values, slammed reagan, funded tea party opponents, and now the sheep are flocking to him
it is a Biblical level of delusion to think he isnt lying through his teeth right now
“Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?” (Chico Marx)
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