Ted Cruz: 'Republican donors actively despise our base'

Politico ^ | 9/29/2015 | Daniel Strauss

[JediJones]

Sen. Ted Cruz drew a stark contrast between Democratic donors and Republican donors during a floor speech late Monday.

Democratic donors, Cruz said, don't hate the liberal base, but Republican donors "actively despise" conservatives.

"On the Democratic side, the major donors that fund the Democratic Party, they don't despise their base. The billionaires who write the giant checks that fund President Obama and Hillary Clinton and the Democrats on that side of the aisle, they don't despise the radical gay rights movement or the radical environmentalist movement or all of the people that knock on doors and get Democrats elected," Cruz said.

By contrast, the 2016 Republican presidential candidate continued, "Republican donors actively despise our base, actively despise the men and women who showed up and voted you and me into office."

"I can tell you when you sit down and talk with a New York billionaire Republican donor — and I have talked with quite a few New York billionaire Republican donors, California Republican donors, their questions start out as follows," Cruz said. "First of all, you've got to come out for gay marriage, you need to be pro-choice, and you need to support amnesty. That's where the Republican donors are. You wonder why Republicans won't fight on any of these issues? Because the people writing the checks agree with the Democrats."'

Those donors, Cruz added, also view the people who elected the Republican majorities in Congress "as a bunch of ignorant hicks and rubes."

[SteveSCH]

If they destroy Trump, Cruz is next on the chopping block.

Trump and Cruz gotta call a truce and unite the anti-GOPe wing of the party and put a stop to these bloodsuckers once and for all.

[JediJones]

I’ll take a non-effective President Cruz over a very effective liberal RINO.

[JoSixChip]

Better to have a campaign that represents voters who have invested in it


If can call goldman sachs and CFG voters, then I just disagree. I would rather have a POTUS who does not owe something to people who want to flood and overrun America with third worlders. If cruz's votes for TPA and the corker bill did not show you that, the cruz's endorsement of rubio should.

[stocksthatgoup]

BusTED, where is all your money coming from?

[JediJones]

Then why did Cruz just rat them out here? When’s the last time you heard ANY other politician criticize donors like this?

The donors know who Cruz is. If they weren’t on board with everything’s he’s campaigned on and done so far, they wouldn’t be donating to him. There are conservative donors, you know. We know two openly backed Gingrich and Santorum last time.

[Vision Thing]

Whassup with posting an article from six months ago?

[stocksthatgoup]

https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/superpacs.php

[Byron_the_Aussie]

.. Trump and Cruz gotta call a truce and unite the anti-GOPe wing of the party and put a stop to these bloodsuckers once and for all ..

Yep. And only that combination can do it.

[JediJones]

I don’t trust Roger Stone, a Trump operative who got caught with his pants down posting nude photos of himself in a swinger ad, as far as I can throw him.

[JediJones]

I’ll support any ticket Cruz is on and call a truce with anyone he calls a truce with.

[JoSixChip]

The donors know who Cruz is.

I think we all do after cruz teaming-up with rubio and all but directly endorsing rubio. It is clear where cruz's loyalties lie.

[r_barton]

[JediJones]

What in the world did the Corker bill have to do with immigration? Answer, nothing. It required Obama to report all the details of the Iran side deals, he ignored the requirement and Boner and Ditch blew it off as usual.

[onyx]

For all his lofty complaints, Ted Cruz has no problem soliciting and accepting YUGE donations from billionaires and millionaires.

[JediJones]

It never got posted originally.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Uh...what’s the point of CCruzruz saying this? Trying to guarantee that the party will be split into fragments come November? It’s not like saying this really even helps Cruz at all.

[HamiltonJay]

And Cruz takes their money which is why he can’t and won’t effect any real change if elected.

[JediJones]

Is every billionaire and millionaire a bad person out to wreck the country?

Or just every billionaire and millionaire besides Trump?

[JoSixChip]

What in the world did the Corker bill have to do with immigration?

It was another case where cruz sold out America just like he did on TPA and backing-up rubio.

[PA Engineer]

I believe you. Ted is a first hand source. Where else do you think Ted gets all of his PAC money.