Ted Cruz Ping! If you want on/off this ping list, please let me know.
Please beware, this is a high-volume ping list!
CRUZ or LOSE!
Posted on 07/25/2015 7:59:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
While Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are bringing in a sizeable number of donations of under $100, Republicans have been going for the big money, like the huge score Ted Cruz just made from a pair of Texas frackers.
Even so, on July 16, Newsmax made a big deal of Hillary receiving donations from wealthy individuals, with the headline, “Hillary Clinton’s Donations From Hedge Fund Titans Exceed Republicans.”
Those Democrats are such elitists! You don’t want to be drinking milk when you read these things, at least not without a bib.
And here the Texas Messiah, Ted Cruz, just hauled in $15 million in a single donation from a pair of – yes – Texas brothers. CNN reports that it “amounts to the largest known donation so far in the 2016 presidential campaign.”
Well. Bernie gets the people. Cruz gets the dollars.
Contrast that with Sanders. As of the beginning of July, Sanders had 400,000 donations from about 250,000 donors, with an average donation of $33.51. Only 1 percent of those donations – an almost exact reversal of the elite group the GOP supports – were of more than $250.
The donation to Cruz’s Keep the Promise super PAC comes from a pair of fracking profiteers, Farris and Dan Wilks, so it’s not money any Democrat would want in any case. After all, you can’t drink $15 billion. You need clean water for that, and you won’t get that anywhere near a fracking site.
The Wilks brothers have, like Ted Cruz, failed to read the United States Constitution. According to CNN, Farris Wilks revealed that,
"Our country was founded on the idea that our rights come from the Creator, not the government. I’m afraid we’re losing that. Unless we elect a principled conservative leader ready to stand up for our values, we’ll look back on what once was the land of opportunity and pass on a less prosperous nation to our children and grandchildren. That’s why we need Ted Cruz."
Actually, the country was founded on the principle that political power derives not from God, or God’s anointed (like Old World kings) but from the people. The Creator many of the Founding Fathers spoke of was not the Christian God of the Bible.
It goes without saying that Farris Wilks is a pastor. If you could find a Republican pastor who has read the Constitution, it would be a genuine biblical miracle.
On the other hand, that’s just the kind of support you would expect to see a would-be messiah like Ted Cruz receiving. They stack it high in Texas.
Imagine if only 10 million would send a few bucks here and there - but alas, just as we have on FR, the public consists of a lot who like to carp but who won't donate a dime no matter the cause. I've been insulting a few recently because I get sick and tired of folks who will tell us all the reasons we need to worry about this candidate or that candidate, but then claim that nobody has appeared that "deserves their backing and financial support" - welfare babies each and every one and they haven't a clue that it's true.
Green eyed jealousy. If those $15 Million had gone to Hitlery it would have been joto; a little Japanese lingo there.
Or a newly discovered complication of schizzophrenia or bi-polar; Hrafnkell Haraldsson syndrome.
Well you can’t argue with the guy about one thing.
Hillary is getting small donations.
One baby liver at a time.
Jackson / Marshall here.
Didn't Charvel and Jackson used to be linked somehow?
I've a vague memory of "Charvel-Jackson" as being a thing.
Yup. Still are but now Fender owns them.
IIRC Grover Jackson did the Super Strats and pointy guitars and Wayne Charvel did the regular hot rodded Strat types until Jackson bought him out. I have a Charvel Model 5FX (Basically a Japan Soloist) and a Jackson Dinky.
I was a Marshall guy too. These days my ‘amp’ is a Boss GT Pro through a Mackie. I miss mt Marshall but I can make anything sound like crap. It’s a gift ;)
Faced with circumstance, I can always drag out the Jackson and the Marshall.
Adapt, Improvise, Overcome....
My setup is more synth geared. I still play guitar a little but it’s a nerve thing. Fingers don’t move too freely anymore so I went to keys and programming.
Roland Integra 7 and a Yamaha TX81Z rack synths into a Mackie 1604 and Yamaha HS5 speakers with a sub. Then to/from the computer.
I always likes Boss/Roland gear because it was simple and works all the time. Might not be botique tone quest cork sniffer quality but it works for me. Worked for pretty much everyone in the last 30 years with a record too ;)
I started on Bass with a Fender Squire. I’m too white for bass though. I haZ no funk. Went to a Les Paul Firebrand and a Marshall, sold it when the kid arrived, had my midlife crisis back around 2001. Rebought a Marshall and the Jackson and then built up from there.
I have a cool little Midi setup. Won’t win any awards or measuring contests but it makes me happy.
Ted Cruz Ping!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.