Ouch! Where'd the money go Howard?! (RNC $34m, DNC <$6m)

Right Side Redux ^ | 2/1/2006

[Uncledave]

Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Ouch! Where'd the money go Howard?! 

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January 31st marks a filing deadline for the FEC. Now that we have the actual numbers, Dean really does have a lot to answer for:

	RNC	DNC
Beginning Cash on Hand (12/01/05)	$31,993,325	$7,330,642
Total Receipts (ending 12/31/05)	$10,140,749	$3,054,075
Total Disb	$8,162,820	$4,522,837
Ending Cash	$33,971,254	$5,861,880

RNC had 4 times as much money to begin with in December, received 3 times as much in donations, spent twice as much as the DNC and has 5 times as much cash on hand. Ouch, is all I can say.

Scanned images of the FEC Reports :

RNC

DNC Report

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[Uncledave]

Apologies on the impossible to read scanned reports. That's the image that linked - it does not enlarge.

[MplsSteve]

With the way the MSM and DNC has been hammering us on the "culture of corruption" issue, we're gonna need that financial advantage to off-set their BS.

[NRA1995]

With apoologies to "Simply Irresistible":

He's so nuts, there's no tellin' where the money went....

[GianniV]

Folks - these stats are meaningless - George Soros writes his big checks to MoveOn.org. Not to the DNC.

The liberals will have plenty of money come this NOV to spread more lies and filth.

[thoughtomator]

Not totally meaningless... they show that the DNC is virtually defunct. This heralds the breakup of that party.

[FormerACLUmember]

Hey, leave Howard Dean alone! He is my hero, along with Code Ping, MoveOn.org, and James Bond super-villain George Soros. These folks are doing great things for the democrats.

Keep it up, Howard!

[wideawake]

The party activists despised Terry McAuliffe - who was a skilled and productive fundraiser - for being a pandering centrist who lost elections.

Howard Dean not only loses elections, but he is also a nigh-incompetent fundraiser devoid of media savvy. He's a complete disaster.

However, he is ideologically pure.

[cchandler]

You're absolutely right. The RNC needs twice as much money to counter the free spin that Democrats get from the MSM. Let's remember the the words of Evan Thomas, Assistant Managing Editor of Newsweek, when he said:

"Let's talk a little media bias here. The media, I think, wants Kerry to win and I think they're going to portray Kerry and Edwards...I'm talking about the establishment media, not Fox. They're going to portray Kerry and Edwards as being young and dynamic and optimistic and there's going to be this glow about them, collective glow, the two of them, that's going to be worth maybe 15 points."

I think Dean knows they have that advantage, and is counting on the Kos kids and the rest of the liberal blogosphere to raise needed funds. Let's not forget that Dean was selected by the bloggers to be head of the DNC. They pushed him into office to lead the Democratic party to the left. The average Democrat is against this, and so they're not donating to the DNC they way they did while MacAuliffe was at the helm.

I think Dean is counting on the grassroots to push more progressive candidates at the local and state levels, and so the DNC doesn't actually need near as much money as the RNC until national campaigns resume in time for the 2008 campaigns.

Luckily for us, these bloggers are delusional in their beliefs that moving farther to the left will attract more voters.

I say we let them stay in their little bubbles of hate, condescension and pessimism until they realize they are in fact the fringe, and that their candidates were never electable in the first place.

[wideawake]

I agree - this implies that the Democrats have moved so far left under Dean that the average registered Democrat is disinclined to open his wallet. It also shows that wealthy contributors - historically the backbone of the Democrat fundraising effort - are moving even further left than the party and prefer to spend their money on radical activists like MoveOn.org, Code Pink and others.

I believe that one election soon in some leftist district MoveOn or a front group may run their own candidate against a Democrat who normally runs unopposed.

If this begins to happen, the Democrats will start to unravel.

[cchandler]

A fact that is often lost on the left is that McAuliffe and the DNC achieved all of their fundraising and GOTV goals during the 2002 & 2004 elections. To their surprise (and their defeat), Rove and the RNC just did better.

[marblehead17]

ping

[Emmett McCarthy]

I like to think I should get some credit for Dean becoming DNC Chair. Since President Bush had the Republican nomination well secured, I voted in the Democratic primary for two reasons: first, hoping that they'd put this nutbag on the ticket; and, second, so that even if they didn't do that, they'd see a phony level of support for him. Now, I think the remnant of political realists within the party can't wait for the opportunity to slit his throat. It's fun to watch.