Posted on 03/16/2009 6:36:21 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
GOP strategists and party leaders are increasingly worried that the party’s run of bad news over the last month and a half is set to continue this week as the Republican National Committee (RNC) prepares to release what are expected to be markedly low fundraising numbers on Friday.
The RNC has consistently outraised the Democratic National Committee on a month-by-month basis. Observers say that streak is likely to end this month.
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Steele already had a high bar to meet; in January, under former Chairman Robert “Mike” Duncan, the committee raised more than $13.1 million, including about $7 million in transfers from Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) presidential campaign.
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The majority of RNC donors hand over smaller checks, largely as a result of the committee’s vaunted mail and phone programs. But Steele jeopardized the party’s standing with those donors as well, thanks to a public spat with radio host Rush Limbaugh and a flub on a question about abortion, which drew criticism from major voices in the social conservative movement.
“Tens of millions of conservatives and Republicans have nothing to do with the RNC and they want nothing to do with the RNC and when you call them asking for money they hang up on you,” Limbaugh said in a March 2 monologue directed specifically at Steele.
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You really think the amnesty-loving, bailout-supporting, interventionist media whore McCain is better? If McCain is so much better than Obama, point out one area where they differ substantially and in more than just words. [No, the issue of earmarks do not count against McCain's little bailout stunt last autumn.]
And...just remember, McCain said Obama would be a great president and is a good man. So, why are you to doubt him?
I sent their last letter back in their paid envelope telling them I would donate to real Republicans, and I would not give money to the RNC and the RINOS. Then told them to take my name off of their mailing list until Steele was gone.
couldn’t agree more - stay focused!!
No, but you did imply it.
Deliberately neglecting to "knock" those non-conservative Republicans is just plain wrong. It's just as bad as governing for the sake of governing rather than governing towards a stated end; it's just as bad as saying that you only vote Republican, even for liberal RINOs, while simultaneously claiming to be a conservative.
You are playing right into the hands of the Democrats.
First off, I'm not a Republican. Second, I play into the hands of no party. As an independent conservative voter, I will vote for conservatives, not Republicans pretending to be conservatives.
That said, if a particular Republican is also a conservative, I have no problem supporting him or her.
You need to meet AZ RNC Committeeman Bruce Ash. You know-nothings are ceding the country to the RATs. Congratulations.
if our opponents goal is to divide and conquer, they are succeeding.
If McCain is so much better than Obama, point out one area where they differ substantially and in more than just word
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I can do it in 4 words.
McCain isn’t a Communist
No, he's just a sympathizer of Communists.
McCain and other RINOs are ‘playing right into the hands of the democrats”.
I hear what you’re saying, by some people’s standards 90% of the Republicans in Congress are RINOs.
But we have some bad trash in our party we need to clean up, like Arlen Specter and John McCain (his overally voting record is fine but that masks his negative impact), people that hurt the conservative agenda from inside the GOP.
Certainly this should be discussed. I don’t see how talking about one thing detracts from another.
We should scream and point at the inferno across the street while ignoring the smoke rising from our own house?
I criticized RINO President Bush this one time and some guy said it was “playing into the hands of democrats” and detracting from the fight against Obama.
I don’t get the argument, this is a discussion forum.
Yeah, in 100 years they’ll all be gone
“I just finished reading threads about Obama’s desire to have our brave military furnish their own medical insurance. Excuse me, we have this traitor in the WH and we bicker over our chairman.”
The reason Obama is in the White House is because there has been no real leadership with any spine in the GOP willing to stand on conservative principals. I am sick and tired of the go along to get along beltway Republican crowd. Michael Steele is just the latest example. Republicans need to stop trying to adapt their party and agenda based on the false premises the Democrats have created.
If there has ever been a time to fight to reestablish conservatism within the GOP, now is that time. And if this means we “bicker” or have a good old proverbial ‘knock-down, drag out’ over who the chairman of the RNC is, then so be it. It has been a long time coming.
America already has one democrat party and the liberals already have a political vehicle. They don’t need another.
eff the RNC....give yer money to conservative groups
“I’ll take McCain any day.”
I’ll second that. How I wish he had one. It appears that Justice Ginsberg will be resigning from the Supreme Court soon. We could have had a shot, at least.
“McCain isn’t a Communist”
“No, he’s just a sympathizer of Communists.”
I really don’t think you should say that of anyone who spent years at the Hanoi Hilton. That is really over the top.
We do need to distinguish between "moderate" Republicans and liberal Republicans, and make it a priority to go after the MOST leftist-leaning elected officials in the GOP. People in general (and many freepers) can't seem to distinguish between a moderate Republican and a liberal Republican, and the media plays right along with this, claiming all Republicans are either "hard right conservatives" or "moderates", even if the "moderate" they're discussing vote to the left of many Democrats.
Norm Coleman is a "moderate" Republican. He's certainly not as conservative as me but he's miles ahead of the drug-addled socialist kook who ran against him. Mark Kirk is NOT a "moderate" Republican, he is a liberal douchebag, and his "debate" with his RAT opponents consist of them arguing over who will do a better job implementing Obama's agenda (Kirk's TV ads even GLOATED that he was rated "better than Obama" by some "progressive" groups!).
These closet Democrats running as Republicans are slipping through the cracks because freepers aren't exposing them for what they are. Many rank-and-file conservative voters STILL don't realize Kirk is a liberal, they just read the media's talking points that he's a Iraq veteran whose "moderate" an "expert on defense issues". Look at all the freepers screaming bloody hell at Susan Collin voting for Porkulus. She was up for re-election LAST year and no one noticed! Not ONE conservative challenged her in the primary! (A conservative would not be expected to win in Maine, but at the very least a primary challenge would have forced Collins to the right in order to be renominated) Freepers were too busy whining about other Republicans who voted on the wrong way on one bill that happened to be their little pet issue.
I would infinitely prefer getting rid of a Republican who is with me 30% of the time than getting rid of a Republican who with me "only" 80% of the time. Don't understand why so many conservatives feel the opposite way. I guess they figure the 80% "RINOs" are easier to defeat in the primary, but well... that's why things like Porkulus get passed. It should be priority #1 to go after ANY "Republican" who votes with the Democrats more often than they vote with us.
They SHOULD be concerned.
Grassley calling for the suicide of AIG people is just the lastest in a series of BONEHEADED GOP moves.
Snowjob, Sphincter and Kate Hepburn all screwing the pooch on PORKULUS.
Steele (I like the man, frankly) puttin’ his foot in his mouth.
Republicans COULD be stirring their base to action and expanding their base by preaching liberty. Instead, they’re spinning wheels in the mud.
Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, Michigan, Chairman of the Republican House Policy Committee talks about the state of the GOP and how to Restore the Republican Party.
This is in 4 parts.
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=RepMcCotter&view=videos&start=80
I voted for pastor Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party, & I’m proud that I didn’t vote for the POS Juan McCain.
I wish I coulda done it 100 times, because I REFUSE to vote for a presidential candidate that either flat-out refuses to do his duty to protect & defend the Constitution of the United States (McCain) or whose view of the Constitution is so muddled by Marxist thought that it has no meaning to them (Obama).
As far as I’m concerned, BOTH of them have been or are committing treason against our Constitution & nation, & should be punished accordingly.
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