When Ken "purse strings" Mehlman called me to donate, I gave him heck about pulling the old democrat trick of just trying to scare people.
The entire thing was just like the democrats saying " Republicans want to hurt women, children and the elderly".
His was "vote Republican or Nancy will be house leader".
He would not support most Conservatives.
I call for "Purse Strings" to step down.
Mehlman is gay, too, and I don't think he can be relied on to support DOMA and an amendment to protect marriage from the army of gay lawyers (there are hundreds working on this issue) who are trying to level it.
More pressing by far, though, is how to get the level playing field back. The Dems in the media just lied, lied, lied for three years about Iraq. That was their strategy from the first moment.
Now, what is the GOP going to do about that 'Rat monopoly in the MSM?
That's twice in 10 years the GOP has been burned, and burned bad in a national election, by MSM campaigning for the 'Rats.
But Mehlman turned out to be correct... If even Chafee had survived, Republicans would have held the Senate.
Mehlman always does a good job communicating on tv and radio; he made the choice very stark for viewers: the moonbat Dean on their side, reason and principle on ours. That voters chose the moonbat is not his fault.
The fact is, Mehlman represented the Republican establishment and did a good job of it. Change in the party just shouldn't be expected to come from that quarter-- change comes from the outside. Republicans need more groups than just the Club for Growth to support the conservatives in primaries and after--- we have the think tanks, they have the fund raising 527s.
I got a similar call, only Hillary was the scary sock-puppet. The whole argument was rather like a threat--implying I didn't have any choice but to take what the RNC had to dish out.