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.
[This is hugh and series!!!!] As allweighs you are prolly right.
Actually, I like frackers.
Until this Donation, Cruz got 80% of his Campaign Funds from Individuals donating $100 or less.
I would go the Nutcase Site and correct them, but any Post I have ever left there has been deleted by the Mods within Minutes. Facts are of no concern to a twisted Liberal mind.
I’m sorry....chemobrain, you know.....Now how many tens of millions did the Clinton Foundation rake in from the UK?? I can’t quite remember.
Bakin* implies heat. Heat refers to something that is... hot.
Out of tune signifies the heat’s impact on the guitar’s tuning.
Acoustic is the the non-electric guitar and style of Robert Johnon.
Throwed over his shoulder is vernacular for Thrown over the shoulder. A typical drifter trait of the loathsome guitar player of the times.
Better to take money from a fracker than to be a fracker like these muts who wrote the story are.
At least Ted goes for 15 million. Hillary goes for two bits.
God I hope he gets a lot of those frackers!!!
If you drive a car, they’ll frack the street
If you take a walk they’ll frack your feet
Frack man!
So Cruz, a Senator from Texas, is being massively backed by Texas businesses who make money via fracking and generating energy for this nation?
What a shock. Not.
BTW my previous comment was not directed at you, 2nd, but rather the moron who wrote this “article.”
why 15 million is nothing compared to what the Clinton Foundation gets.
The Democrats won’t take money from anyone who drills for oil, but they have no problem taking donations from Planned Parenthood and all their money they got from harvesting body parts from aborted babies.”
Exactly. In our bizarro world Democrats are totally content with money made from the body parts of aborted babies but are immensely displeased with the money made from the many eons of dead things that create oil.
I remember this same lying BS they said of Obama.
This is the drooling mewlings of the clinically insane.
If we can just find a way to situate oil deposits in dead fetuses, we can co-opt the DemonCrats to be pro-drilling.
Well? Hillary doesn’t even have a soul to sell yet she seems to do pretty well stealing money intended for world wide disaster victims.
Anyone with the first name of Hrafnkell should be taken outside and drowned in a fjord.
Frack you, Hraffie baby!
Leni
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Hilarious!
Liberalism IS a mental disorder.
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