Sorry, won’t join you. I’m happy we have so many people supporting Doug, but I can’t fault the national republican committees for supporting the choice of the local republican committees.
In this case, I COULD support them doing otherwise, because the pick was done so shadily, and the person chosen so out of the mainstream of republicanism. Generally, I’d be pissed if the national committee tried to overrule the local committee, because normally when that happens its because the local committee chose a good conservative.
If we are to take back the party, we need to do it from the grass roots, which means taking back the local committees, getting involved, and then counting on the national committee to support our nominees, even if they don’t like them.
It’s harder to do that if we go after the national committee for supporting the locally chosen republican, rather than supporting the republican who left the party to run as an independent.
(We have that happen all the time here, we pick good conservatives and the loser moderate gets mad and runs as an independent, draining off support and giving victory to the democrat. And just as much as we hate liberal republicans, the liberal republicans hate us conservatives, and so it’s best if we don’t punish the national committee simply for supporting the republican candidate — it’s what we normally want them to do, and something they don’t always do).
I do believe we shouldn’t give the NRCC Money, and we should write them and tell them to attack Owens instead of Hoffman (because their republican candidate would get more votes from Democrats anyway); we should also tell them to stop wasting money on a lost cause candidate (they do this all the time when the lost cause is a conservative), and instead throw all their money into the california race.
BTW, on the California race, The money there should be spent strictly on get-out-the vote efforts for republicans. We don’t want to raise general awareness, because if the democrats get too worked up, they’ll all show up for the election, and we need them to stay home.
But now they're putting out attack ads against the conservative candidate--his person, his beliefs, his positions.
More than de-funding, they need a severe punishing.
Thank you voice of reason.