Posted on 11/01/2015 1:04:46 AM PST by GonzoII
"Bush Camp Moves to Ease Donor Angst," blared a Politico headline.
"Big Donors Seek Larger Roles in Presidential Campaigns," a New York Times story reported.
Some of the nation's biggest political donors and "bundlers" are spilling their guts to journalists (albeit off the record) about what they expect from the GOP candidates they are supporting. They now insist on "larger roles in the campaigns" and, as rich people tend to do, are largely getting what they want.
Big givers stay close to their candidates through special apps, conference calls and intimate gatherings. The really big guns are treated to the holy grail of access - the cellphone number of the candidate.
Theresa Kostrzewa, a lobbyist who is also a Jeb Bush supporter, was refreshingly candid in summing up the dynamic.
"Donors are demanding a lot these days...(T)hey want answers and they want results, and a lot of them hit the panic button a lot," she told the New York Times.
As for the rest of you sops who call the main House or Senate switchboards and expect to be heard? You have a better chance of hitting Lotto.
Herein lies the problem - politicians scramble to curry favor with those who fill their coffers and, in the process, forget they are elected to serve all the people. Though this is nothing new, never before have the priorities of the Donor Class been more in conflict with those of the average American citizen.
For example, many donors who run big global corporations want to streamline immigration amnesty and the admission of foreign workers. But most Republican voters favor more restrictions on both legal and illegal immigration, according to surveys from Gallup...
(Excerpt) Read more at lifezette.com ...
I don’t blame you! It’s a PITA!
In fact, according to the Real Clear Politics poll average, the candidates who seem to have the most support from the establishment (Jeb Bush, Sen. Marco Rubio, and Gov. John Kasich) have about 22 percent of the GOP vote. Meanwhile, Donald Trump, Ben Carson, and Carly Fiorina - three outsiders - have more than 51 percent.
In both the RCP average and a USA Today poll out Thursday, Rubio and Bush are fourth and fifth, behind Trump, Carson, and Fiorina.
If these numbers are accurate, the battle for the soul of the GOP is not between two groups of roughly equal size, but between a large group of voters who want major changes and a much smaller group that likes the GOP very much the way it is. However, the donors have given that smaller group a giant megaphone that allows them to wield much more influence than their numbers merit.
It’s hard to see how a political party can prosper when a band of wealthy donors repeatedly forces it to take positions that are unpopular with its membership. Look at the difficulties an insider like John Boehner had in leading House Republicans. The harder the donors push, the more likely they are to break the GOP.
The time has come for Republican politicians to quit letting others pull their strings and do a better job of representing the voters who put them in office.
Crony Capitalism, Democrat-style: You will take what your Central Planning masters give you and you will like it knowing it will be hell on your competitors who didn’t get in bed with us.
Crony Capitalism, Republican-style: You get to mold the candidate to say and do as he is told or you’ll threaten to take your money elsewhere.
Only Trump is immune to this game. Like him or hate him, with Trump you are getting the unbought candidate, free to say and be what he wants and that is what frightens the hell out of the GOP-e.
Another article highlighting the folly of participating in sham elections. While the political class tries to keep appearances up, the plain truth is it’s a pay-to-play system.
This is true with both parties...but stop and think of the wants of RAT donors...shudder!
Vote for Trump. He is the only candidate who can end this globalist/political tyranny.
so, are you glad that Obama is president because your principled view is to not vote?
The Cheap Labor Express is intent on preventing the citizens from electing anyone who would stop them.
If you vote for any of their amnesty candidates, you are voting for national suicide.
Yeb!, Young Yeb!, Kasich, Grahamnesty, NJFatBoy, Pataki, Huckabee, Paul, Fiorina, and Carson are all Cheap Labor Express candidates.
Trump, Cruz or Santorum stand with the citizens and the rule of law.
Thanks....and yeah, Lora rocks! ...she’s a babe too...
I did vote in 2008 and have since come to regret it.
As events since that time have shown, it desn’t matter who you vote for. The end resuls are indistinguishable.
Beware. The circle around the elites is actually getting smaller. That is why they are demanding more from candidates. Ever since Codevilla’s article, many conservatives and others have woken up to the reality that the elites hate us, want more of our money and property and with it, more control over us. Hence, drawing closer to their chosen candidates since we are increasingly on their case.
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