Posted on 03/08/2010 9:26:18 AM PST by Neil E. Wright
A taste of the RNC logic:
National Republican Party fundraisers aren't putting much stock in Joe Walsh's campaign to unseat incumbent Democratic U.S. Rep. Melissa Bean in the suburban 8th District [Illinois], a spokesman said Thursday.
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"We're really focused on the seats where we see the clearest paths to victory," [National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Tom] Erickson said. "It's no secret these are the most competitive (races)."
The RNC will find a reason at every turn to favor their candidate over a Tea-Party candidate. To whom should they be listening - their entrenched bureaucracy or the voters? We know what the intra-WDC folks say - and it is reproduced, in part, below. Let's look at the voters:
Illinois - 503 of 503 Precincts Reporting - 100%
| Name | Party | Votes | Vote % |
| Walsh, Joe | GOP | 16,109 | 34% |
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| Beveridge, Dirk | GOP | 11,638 | 25% |
| Rodriguez, Maria | GOP | 9,763 | 21% |
| Geissler, Christopher | GOP | 4,256 | 9% |
| Dawson, John | GOP | 3,909 | 8% |
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| Jacobs, Gregory | GOP | 1,441 | 3% |
And, now, let's read how the RNC will create their own demise:
National Republican Party fundraisers aren't putting much stock in Joe Walsh's campaign to unseat incumbent Democratic U.S. Rep. Melissa Bean in the suburban 8th District [Illinois], a spokesman said Thursday.
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"We're really focused on the seats where we see the clearest paths to victory," [National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Tom] Erickson said. "It's no secret these are the most competitive (races)."
The Walsh-vs.-Bean matchup doesn't make the cut. Walsh wasn't the GOP group's choice to face the three-term incumbent, Erickson said.
"In the primary, we had really liked Dirk Beveridge or Maria Rodriguez," Erickson said, referring to two of the five candidates Walsh defeated Feb. 2. "Those are the two candidates who we thought really had the potential to make this a very competitive race."
The Walsh camp isn't concerned about Erickson's ranking of the state's races, campaign spokeswoman Whitney Schlosser said.
"Joe Walsh is not part of the establishment and, unfortunately, some elements of the GOP establishment are still a bit tone deaf when it comes to independent, conservative reform candidates," Schlosser said in an e-mail. "It helps explain why they didn't see Walsh's primary victory coming."
A nine-point thumping in a crowded field isn't good enough for the RNC.
The fallacy of their logic is that they are telling us - "Yes, this race, but, no, not this candidate." The dem incumbent in Illinois 8 either is or is not vulnerable. The opposition candidate rarely makes her vulnerable - she does it herself. The opposition candidate merely exposes those vulnerabilities, exacerbates them, and makes them winning issues. He or she then runs on their own merits to bring home the electoral victory.
So we are reminded by the RNC: Dede Scozafavva was good enough; Joe Walsh - who beat their favored candidate fair and square - is not.
We conservatives do not want a 3d party, but you all in the RNC are making it more and more difficult to try to work out our differences.
The RNC reported in January that their cash levels are at one third what they were one year prior. In the real world, such executives would find their smoking carcasses hanging from the yardarms.
Maybe when they drop to ZERO, the RINO bastages will start listening.
The RNC will not have the resources to support every conservative candidate in every congressional district this year. Why? Because a lot of conservatives (like me) don’t like letting them make those decisions for them and don’t give them money. If you want a guy supported, give him money yourself. Don’t hold your money back from the RNC and then criticize them for not supporting candidates. That is thinking the way the libs do. The RNC does not have a magic money generator.
For several years now, I give only nominal amounts to the RNC. All of my campaign donations go directly to the candidates.
Now, if the RNC is providing support to an opponent to a conservative candidate (like NY-23) then they deserve lots of criticism. But the only punishment they listen to is the money message. Don’t give them any.
But the downside of that is they will increasingly start to represent the interests of those who give them money. So if moderates give them more money, they will act more moderate. Youse get what youse pay for. So pick your poison.
The RNC is worthless to us. It has been for decades.
I still maintain that Reagan would never have been president if the party insiders had had their way.
You are the problem. Your Third Party will never win anything.
Dems will come in first
GOP comes in second
Your Third Party comes in a very distant third
That’s how all third party elections go.
Ownership of the party isn't up to the hacks who currently run it, it's up to the people. The people can take back their party by simply becoming involved at the entry levels, and working their way up in sufficient numbers to begin steering it back toward common sense conservatism.
Going third party is a death sentence for the center-right, for conservatism, and for this country. Bite your tongue.
It is a fact that I'm happy with my solid Republican Congressman. He doesn't really need my support to keep getting elected but a lot of conservative Congressional candidates across the country will. That's where I'm putting my campaign donation bucks. I'm going to look for good candidates, see what kind of campaign they are running, check to see if they are within reach of winning and send them a check if they are. Forget the RNC.
IL-10 is an historically Republican district in the NW Chicago outer suburbs. The seat (pre-Bean) was most recently held by Phil Crane for many, many years.
It’s IL-8 actually (IL-10 is Mark Kirk’s district) but you are correct about Phil Crane. This isn’t like we’re asking the national party to spend a gazillion dollars targeting Nazi Pelosi’s faggot district in San Francisco; IL-8 is a WINNABLE district and a conservative like Joe Walsh is the right man for the job, right now, despite what the liberal squishes at the RNC or NRCC (or some on this thread) think.
So it's high time that people like you and I get off our duffs and replace the RINOs in the Republican party, to effect the change we want.
If the Dems win or not, I will NWVER again vote for anything but a Conservative. That means I won’t vote again because the RNC as it has grown to be will never back a Conservative. Thanks to people who have bought the third party crap will have continued to steer us right into the tyrannical left.
Thanks for Obama. People that think like you may well give him a second term.
doh ... i knew that!!
Either you are incapable of understanding what I say, or you are undeer 40 and hafe been completely indoictrinated by your Feducation. God bless America, with liberty and justice for all. May she make a 360 degree turn to what she was meant to be so that our grandchildren will know the blessing of living free.
I'm starting to think the RNC powers-that-be are a little bit slow.
The RNC is a PROGRESSIVE organization!
You speak Truth.
They do need to allocate funds, I’m starting to think the RNC should not have the ability to distribute funds.
I think maybe all campaign financing needs to be local and State based.
Unfortunately, it won't go to zero. The demopublicans own corporate giving.
You’re going to have big problems in life ... probably already do. I feel sorry for you.
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