Donors to the Republican National Campaign Committee have a right to expect their support will help candidates who are broadly in accord with the Republican Party’s fundamental principles.There is little doubt, in these lean times, Americans who make contributions to the NRCC would be shocked to learn their dollars are actually supporting the campaign of an unrepentant liberal who opposes the central achievements of today’s Republican Congressional delegation.
Yet that is exactly to sad state of affairs we now confront. The NRCC is using the contributions of loyal Republicans across the country to fund the Congressional bid of Liberal New York State Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava.
Assemblywoman Scozzafava supports the Obama tax-and-spend Stimulus Package - - the same package the Republicans now in Congress unanimously rejected. She defends the kind earmarked pork-barrel spending that cost Republicans so much credibility in the last election. She supports Big Labor’s card check attack on the secret ballot. And she twice voted to legalize gay marriage.
Assemblywoman Scozzafava wasn’t picked by the voters. Party bosses selected her, reportedly with the guidance and direction of the NRCC.
So, what is stake here is more than the risk of electing yet another Arlen Specter-style liberal Republican. This is a battle about the soul and future of the Republican Party.
Some think the way to win elections is to mimic the Democrats, to offer the voters “liberal-lite” in hopes of finding accommodation with the Democrats and success at the polls.
The NRCC’s support for liberal Assemblywoman Scozzafava is a disturbing indication that the NRCC is test marketing a campaign message blurring the differences between the parties in instead principled opposition to the liberal Democrats’ agenda.
The “me-to” approach is both sure to fail politically and deeply dishonest to the NRCC’s core financial supporters. The donors who sacrifice to write checks to the NRCC don’t expect their efforts to be diverted to liberals like Assemblywoman Scozzafava.
Accordingly, while we are all friends of the NRCC, we reluctantly call for a moratorium on any financial contributions to the NRCC until that organization ceases support for Assemblywoman Scozzafava and clarifies its plans for candidate recruitment and support going forward.
There are great opportunities ahead for the Republicans in Congress. Those opportunities cannot be squandered by political miscalculations and a lack of faith in the central values of the Republican Party.
People should give their money directly to conservative candidates. That is the ONLY way we’ll get the Republicans to listen.
Weeks before the last election the NRCC stripped my conservative congressman of funds because he was a “lost cause”. The lost cause lost by a whopping 2% and we got stuck with a marxist pelosi puppet.
If the GOP thinks they can maniulate me into voting for a “progressive” republican they’ve got another thing coming.
They are doing the same thing in Oregon’s 5th Congressional district.
They are doing the same thing in Oregon’s 5th Congressional district.
My enemies are Democrats, not Republicans. I do not engage in fights that my enemies might find beneficial.
Scuzzafava is a true RINO - - giving her so much as a dime would be a tragedy.
May as well just write a check to a scumbag Democrat.
Anyway, this kind of action by the NRCC (ie., its support for a Democrat in Republican clothing) is why my checkbook remains slammed shut. I get called all the time by the NRCC. Scuzzafava is another name I can throw in their face before I hang up. Any contributions I make go directly to candidates I support (ie., stone cold conservatives).
Fake Center, go left.
We send nothing...we haven’t sent anything....we won’t send anything to the Republican Party until we see strong evidence they are supporting real Conservative values, NOT what appears to be confused, altered definitions of Conservatism as we have been seeing the past few years. IOW Dem-Lite.
We say screw the Leftist RINO’s, and send any contributions directly to the conservative candidates only.
Wow! AMEN!
What values, the GOP has no values, just a desire to spend as much as the democraps. And to be liked by the media.
“is urging fellow conservatives not to contribute to the National Republican Congressional Committee.”
He’s a little late to the party, isn’t he? I quit giving to those useless bast#rds years ago.
NY Democrats are social liberals and economic liberals. NY Republicans are economic conservatives and social liberals. But they are all still liberals, and it shows.