Posted on 01/22/2016 9:09:51 PM PST by TBP
In 2013, the tea party rallied to Matt Bevin against Donald Trump. RedState and tea party groups around the country swung into action in an ultimately unsuccessful bid to get Matt Bevin through the primary against Mitch McConnell. We were completely out-funded by establishment interests and Washington lobbyists.
It turns out, one of those establishment interests was Donald J. Trump.
In 2013, Donald Trump gave $220,000.00 to organizations, many of them dedicated to stamping out the Tea Party. From Karl Rove’s American Crossroads to Mitch McConnell’s Super PAC, Trump spread out money. Rove got $50,000.00 and McConnell got $60,000.00. Trump also wrote a check to McConnell’s campaign directly for $5,200.00.
What’s more, Trump also gave $100,000.00 to the Congressional Leadership Fund, a Republican Establishment PAC that was created to crush conservatives at the behest of John Boehner.
Running as an anti-establishment Republican now and courting Sarah Palin is a distraction from two stark facts.
In 2010, with the rise of the Tea Party, Trump supported Democrats against conservatives. In 2014, Donald Trump supported the Republican Establishment as it sought to crush the tea party and conservatives.
It is seriously disingenuous to think Trump is somehow now against the very candidates and organizations he funded just two years ago — candidates and politicians he is already again starting to say nice things about.
Trump contributed to noted liberal John Bolton? That’s it. I’m done.
Levin strongly endorsed Hatch. Now he is all but endorsing Cruz. Hmmm. Let me think about that one.
I voted for both Bushs. They were mistakes. I've learned the establishment Republicans are not in it for the people. Cruz is tinny. He is a big supporter of H1b visas to take jobs from Americans. He's married to financial power. I trust trump more than Cruz.
I started taking an interest in issues as a child in 1968, then hooked onto the conservative radio preachers who were in the many ways the pre-Rush source of news and information for conservative activism, although they had an older style format, religion was mixed in. There were a few more secular conservative commentators who bought blocks of times on radio stations as well.
One of them, Dr. Carl McIntire, led “March for Victory” protests to counter the anti-Vietnam War protestors who he saw as communist sympathizers.
McIntire wanted a military victory ala WW 2 which was possible in Vietnam but not pursued because it was a policing war to stop the aggression against the South of Vietnam. The ‘policing’ involved limited bombing and a massive commitment of ground forces with over 50,000 dead.
McIntire was a thorn in Nixon’s side because Nixon wanted ‘peace with honor’ in Vietnam.
Nixon chose to retaliate against the radio preacher by having his Federal Communications Commission shut down a radio station owned by McIntire on the basis of a Fairness Doctrine complaint filed by a host of liberal groups.
“Cruz, the Canadian/Cuban, can spread whatever lies he likes.”
If Trump has been supporting the establishment, then what makes you think he has changed? He supported DeBlasio in 2013, so what makes you think he is going to do ANYTHING conservative in 2016?
He supports touch-back amnesty. When did THAT become “a meat clever to the illegal immigration”?
Other than pure emotion and blindness, what makes you think Trump will do SQUAT ALL?
Nonsense as usual ... Cruz and Beck are the open borders welcoming commitee
Trump never replies to the information and facts in anything that is said about him. He just demeans those who criticize him, as he did with National Review. It’s not Presidential.
And too many of his followers argue the same way.
losing some respect there for nixon, after finding this out.
thanks.
always wondered why dems hated him so much, when his policies werent very very conservative,
And yet, you were still drawn to it, like a moth to a flame.
I fight fire with fire by keeping the commonly demanded link references ready to copy/paste into a reply. The holly makes everything better!
Re-re-re-reading my response, I noticed a subtlety I had not clicked on before that I thought I would share with xzins, if you really are open to discussion.
Trump's victory tweet to MConnell referenced "$'s". Not only was Trump congratulating the establishment GOPe guy, he was high diving over the prospect of more pork for Kentucky.
Very unlike a small government conservative, wouldn't you say?
Let us not forget that just a few weeks ago, Trump singularly upset the whole election apple cart!
Trump set the national agenda by opposing illegal immigration and bringing up other issues that the GOPe and their allies desperately wanted to avoid, and now they can’t.
The GOPe was not prepared for this, and as a consequence they don’t have a clue about what to do, hence their almost universal collapse into a pile of quivering jello, flip-flopping like a bag of Mexican jumping beans dumped on a hot griddle.
Trump has exposed those who pretend to be conservative but are really just fronts for big money establishment campaign donors who purchase their candidates with campaign “donations”.
Trump, by actually being a real man, has exposed the other candidates (Cruz excepting of course) and their allies for the weak little sniveling sellouts that they really are.
Trump’s vociferous truth-telling and fearless neutering of the kommie media have been the catalyst that triggered a massive revolt amongst conservative voters who are infuriated at the GOPe Congress doing absolutely ZERO to stop Obama’s agenda, and suddenly the GOP RINO leadership is in full blown panic mode and in full blown retreat, and the SMALL conservative House contingent smelt blood in the water, took heart, and charged in against a weakened, frightened and paralyzed GOPe leadership, and Boehner was taken out as a sacrificial lamb.
Trump is absolutely correct when he says that without Trump in the race, everything would be same-ol’, same-ol. The Joyful Tippy-Toes Turtle would be creeping closer to the finish line, Boehner would still be safely ensconced as Speaker, and there would be no mention of illegal immigration are any of the issues surrounding it by any politician in either party, other than possibly how critical it would be to pass immigration “reform”.
The media are loath to make the connection, but it’s obvious that the Boehner resignation was yet another falling domino, toppling due to the Trump Effect, because Trump’s unabashed truth-telling and fearless neutering of the kommie media triggered a revolt amongst the great unwashed GOP masses which emboldened a few conservative Congress critters to grow a few pairs.
And our nation wouldn’t even be having ANY of these conversations about illegal immigration and the myriad of other Obammunist issues destroying our country if it wasn’t for Trump. Instead, we’d simply be debating which RINO, GOPe squish would be least likely to be stomped by Hillary, and the GOPe would once again be exhorting the “base” about how critical it is for us to once again vote for the “lesser of two evils”, that is, vote for the GOPe side of the Uniparty coin.
And do note that ALL of the oligarchs and plutocrats are frightened to death of Donald Trump because the billionaires and millionaires can’t buy him like all of the other politicians they routinely purchase, because Trump doesn’t need nor want their money, and the kommie media is frightened to death of him because he isn’t afraid of them either, the bottom line being that Donald Trump can not be controlled by the rich and powerful or the corrupt media, so for anyone who is truly for campaign finance reform and wants to take money out of politics, voting for Trump is the only reasonable choice.
President Trump is really the last hope for this country: if he can’t undo any of the damage wrought by the Obammunists, the U.S.A. is done.
So least we forget, the above, and much more, are called “The Trump Effect”.
Yes. But they are really, really long, and have no punchline.
Trump has repeatedly said that he wants to repeal Obamacare. But evidently constitutionally low-information Trump, just like many other low-information patriots, probably did not understand that Boehner and McConnell did not have enough votes to override a presidential veto of an Obamacare repeal bill regardless that these RINO lawmakers ”promised” to repeal Obamacare if reelected in 2014.
You assume he wants to undo all Obama has done.
I voted for both Bushs. They were mistakes. I’ve learned the establishment Republicans are not in it for the people. Cruz is tinny. He is a big supporter of H1b visas to take jobs from Americans. He’s married to financial power. I trust trump more than Cruz.
That’s pretty much where I am at. I was a strong supporter of Cruz for many years up until the TPA battle. Then he sold us out for $100,000 in donations from Goldman Sachs and campaigned for the Barack Obama-globalist donor class. He’ll do the same as POTUS, IMO.
He has been inconsistent on immigration and favorable to the globalist agenda in the U. S. Senate. Cruz was not just a supporter of a massive increase in H-1B visas. He wrote the Senate bill to do it and supported that position for 2 years until Trump reframed the debate! Just too many red flags with Cruz to continue my support, IMO.
Cruz is co-sponsoring legislation to reduce the number of H-1B visas.
Trump is a progressive who can’t be trusted.
Pure politics and emotion....my father is a Democrat and the Dems look back to his “Checkers Speech” when he was Eisenhower’s running mate in 1952 which earned his the lifelong nickname “Tricky Dick”.
It was rough during the Nixon presidency because Nixon had a thin skin for any opponents-critics from the radio preachers to the liberal news media to the anti-war liberals.
There was an undeclared war between the media and Nixon with the media getting a last laugh of sorts with Watergate.
Nixon showed great dignity in resigning when the House Judiciary Committee approved impeachment.
Nixon’s FCC also went after NBC News on Fairness Doctrine violation for a documentary on pensions. NBC had deep pockets and lawyers and with some friendly judges got out of it for the most part.
Trump seems to be pretty nasty and thin skinned with his opponents and critics as well.......
I hope he won’t go down in history as “Tricky Don” but it’s a possibility.
The media loves him, who are you kidding, they’re all giggly. They breathlessly give him airtime anytime he wants it and deny it to everyone else... and he hasn’t had to answer a hard question yet... not even from his tinfoil hat supporters, who question nothing.
didn’t know he ran as eisenhower’s vp.
he will go down as tricky don, and then be an elder statesman when he gets out of office :)
doesnt mean he might not do a good job,
but there’s no way he’s a conservative i the Ronald Reagan mold
he once inquired if Reagan was an “empty suit”
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