Posted on 02/27/2016 10:15:58 PM PST by 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."
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Funny, Trump says the same thing.
But with TPP fast track and zero tithing you don't have a base anymore
WORD!
Who is funding Ted Cruz and why? Don’t tell me it’s $27 small donors.
Does Ted realize that the GOPe hates him almost as much as they do Trump?
They have no intention of letting him be elected and IF he did, they will make sure he can’t be effective.
Just because he got in bed with them to take out Trump, doesn’t mean they won’t gnaw their own arm off in the morning
They think party loyalty means covering up their own traitorous ways and keeping them in power so they can betray us over and over again. They miss that it should mean loyalty to the people, the base.
Duh, must say this is a very interesting post
And yet cruz’s campaign is funded by these same donors. cruz talks a good game but never delivers. The last straw is he is endorsing rubio.
Something we can agree on!
Better to have a campaign that represents voters who have invested in it with their own hard earned money than to have a candidate buying the office and with loyalty to no one.
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CRuz is trying to repeat Trump’s points, again, to no avail. CRuz takes their money....so he can’t exactly rat any of them out.
Cruz is hanging with Rubio now as the last guys left who can challenge Trump. ! think he endorses Trump, though, if it comes to that. He knows the whole political system needs to be shaken up, and Rubio just ain’t going to do that.
Roger Stone said today that Cruz talked to both Trump and Rubio and said he would get out of the race if they promised him, if elected, a Supreme Court position. Both told him to hang it in his ear.
Cruz is the bigger liar in the history of US politics. Or is it Rubio? I lose track these days.
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Fixed it for you.
Wealth envy and PAC love is really taking over a few FReepers, lately.
Ping!!
Cruz is a fool. After he say that, he still think Rubio is better than Trump
That sound BS to me, how he know what Cruz told Rubio
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