Posted on 09/30/2015 8:22:07 AM PDT by VinL
The people who show up at the polls, who elected you and me, and who elected this Republican majority," Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) said on the Senate floor Monday evening, "far too many of the Republican donors look down on those voters as a bunch of ignorant hicks and rubes."
Blocked from adding an amendment to a government funding bill, Cruz spoke for an hour about the problems within his party until he was eventually refused additional time to press his point.
The point about the disconnect between donors and the base, which was pointed out by CNN's Teddy Schleifer, neatly encapsulates Cruz's tenure in Washington and the value proposition he hopes to offer 2016 voters. Cruz expressed frustration at "show votes" that were intended to raise an issue important to the base but were expected to fail -- blaming the donor class for that strategy.
The crux of that argument is worth quoting in its entirety.
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. The simple reality is a very large percentage of the 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. First of all, you've got to come out for gay marriage, you need to be pro-choice, and...
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I was thinking it might enhance his message as an outsider in the presidential campaign, but I can see were folks might react as you have.
William Wilberforce comes to mind as does Jeremiah the prophet.
Diners - doners - donuts!
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