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Dems crush GOP in money game
Politico ^ | Jul 24, 2007 | Jeanne Cummings

Posted on 07/24/2007 7:56:03 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182

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Not good! One GOP strength was the ability to raise money. Bush made too many enemies. It is taking the party down.
1 posted on 07/24/2007 7:56:07 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Anti-Bubba182
Enemies, SHAMNESTY.....KILLED THE GOLDEN GOOSE.
2 posted on 07/24/2007 7:58:18 AM PDT by OKIEDOC (Kalifornia, a red state wannabe. I don't take Ex Lax I just read the New York Times.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Maybe the spineless gop has lost the support of there donors


3 posted on 07/24/2007 7:59:18 AM PDT by italianquaker (When will pelosi ask congressman ellison to apologize for his 9-11 remarks?)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

I think this is more a demonstration of the maturity between the two parties. Republicans have a strong field, the Dems have Hillary, lightweight Obama, and thats about it.

I suspect when the primaries actually weed out the ‘also rans’ and gets us to a point where we KNOW who the candidate will be, the GOP coffers will open up.

Especially if Clinton is the Dem nominee.


4 posted on 07/24/2007 8:00:27 AM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Let see:

Bush on Immigration... +
Congress spending like a drunk sailor =

No money from me


5 posted on 07/24/2007 8:01:24 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Anti-Bubba182
Nobody is wasting money contributing to the RNC any more. They are probably getting lots of "Jorge Bush Nada" notes, though. Dems are still getting cash from Hollywood and their usual supported, so expect a sea of "First Girl President" propaganda next year.

Hillary would have to do something utterly moronic (not impossible) to lose the 2008 election at this point.

6 posted on 07/24/2007 8:02:21 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("Wise men don't need to debate; men who need to debate are not wise." -- Tao Te Ching)
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To: Anti-Bubba182
Money can not buy you love.

But it can buy revenge on the heartless B...(insert gender appropriate term for you).

7 posted on 07/24/2007 8:03:28 AM PDT by fireforeffect (A kind word and a 2x4, gets you more than just a kind word.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

All the money in the world can’t erase the truth about the Liberal’s anti-American, anti-military BS they’ve been spewing for the past 7 years. An idiot can quote their treasonous words that has come foaming out of their mouths. If the GOP can find someone with gonads, a spine, and a brain, they can use the Liberals corruption and dirty tricks for the past 7 years against them. It shouldn’t take billions to do that. Just brains. Sad, but there seems to be a severe shortage of them in DC as well.


8 posted on 07/24/2007 8:03:33 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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From the media perspective:

If the Dems raise more money, this is a strong mark in their favor. People like them. They are in ascendancy. The future belongs to them.

If the GOP raises more money, this demonstrates their essentially evil character. They are bought and paid for. The party of the rich. Halliburton calls the shots.

9 posted on 07/24/2007 8:03:34 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Progressives like to keep doing the things that didn't work in the past.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

You also have essentially irrelevant declared GOP candidates.

Guiliani is a democrat.
McCain is nuts.
Romney is too slick as a snake oil salesman
and then you have the
nutcases on the bottom.

NOBODY en mass is going to want to give them any money.

Mel Martinez going nuts to support amnesty killed party fundraising.


10 posted on 07/24/2007 8:04:48 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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In general, FR has a problem in this regard.

It has been popular to swagger about and announce “not one penny to the RNC until this amnesty bill is killed”. And “I will give to individual candidates that I support, not the RNC that supports amnesty”.

Well, it is killed. There is nothing remaining on the table for the RNC to support.

But who is now going to ante up?

What organization is out there that will tell you which candidates far distant from your home deserve support, and provides an address to which to send a check? There is none. The talk about supporting candidates is well on its way to being nothing more than talk.

So think about all of the above when the RNC calls.


11 posted on 07/24/2007 8:05:04 AM PDT by Owen
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Overall, Democrats reported having $314 million in cash compared with the Republicans' $190 million, which means that 62 percent of the political cash is now held in Democratic accounts.

There's a reason for this: The GOP has supported positions in the past that do not resonate with Republicans. Amnesty is only part of the problem. Another nail in the coffin was the GOP's ineffectiveness when they did have power. Even now, when Hillary has already stated that she will be seeking a tax increase, the GOP sits there like a dolt and makes no political hay out of it.

The GOP politicians better wake up--and soon--to the fact that conservatives are totally pi$$ed and they need to see the GOP politicians start saying the right things or they are doomed.

12 posted on 07/24/2007 8:05:48 AM PDT by econjack
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To: Mr. Jeeves

Hillary can’t change who and what she is. No amount of money can hide the pure evil that oozes from her mouth. Freepers could run a better campaign than the leadership of the GOP. IMO, the leadership of the GOP are a group of spineless wimps who have been sucking up Liberal tricks for the past 7 years. It will be up to the base to defeat the Liberal human debris. If not, our country is in the toilet bowl waiting for the next terrorist attack. When that happens, the high rollers praising the high stock market can kiss their profits goodbye.


13 posted on 07/24/2007 8:07:12 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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Yep. They haven’t been able to raise any money during the Shamnesty debacle. Give us a field of real Republicans, give us fiscal and social conservatives, strong on gun rights and shutting the borders, strong on the War on Terror, and we’ll open up our checkbooks again. I’m not sending money to the GOP until they stop acting like tax and spend liberals.


14 posted on 07/24/2007 8:08:01 AM PDT by Right Cal Gal (Remember Billy Dale!!!)
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To: Badeye

The Dhimis have a more extensive online fundraising apparatus, they also haven’t pissed on their base the way Jorge’ did, I cannot count the number of people who have said they put a “Jorge’ Peso” into a fundraising letter.

The retarded thing about that is, if the Dhimis sweep the table in 08 (we have more senators up for re election) don’t those folks think that that the “D”’s will pass amnesty? And tax hikes, and firearms bans?


15 posted on 07/24/2007 8:08:12 AM PDT by padre35 (Conservative in Exile.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

I wonder what it breaks down to.

From a 2002 Rush Limbaugh article:

According to a new study by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, that moniker more appropriately belongs to the Democrats. “Republicans raised more than Democrats from individuals who contributed small and medium amounts of money during the 2002 election cycle,” the report notes, “but Democrats far outpaced Republicans among deep-pocketed givers.” Among donors who gave more than $200 but less than $1,000, Republicans enjoyed a substantial $68 million to $44 million edge over Democrats. The margin was closer among those individuals who gave $1,000 or more: The GOP took in $317 million, compared to the Democrats’ $307 million.

But among the fabulously wealthy, the Democrats cleaned house. Donors of $10,000 or more gave $140 million to Democrats, while only $111 million went to Republicans. Among those individuals who gave $100,000 or more, the Democrats raised $72 million compared to the Republicans’ $34 million. And when it comes to the millionaires’ club - those kicking in $1 million or more - the Democratic Party skunked the GOP, $36 million to $3 million. Needless to say, despite the near-parity in overall amounts - $384 million to the Republicans vs. $350 million to the Democrats - the number of individual donors to the GOP exceeded those to the Democratic Party by more than 40 percent.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/menu/fat_cats_washington_times.guest.html

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/menu/democrats_get_more_money_from__rich_.guest.html


16 posted on 07/24/2007 8:09:30 AM PDT by lowbridge (A Gun A Day Keeps The Government Away)
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To: ExTexasRedhead
If the GOP can find someone with gonads, a spine, and a brain, they can use the Liberals corruption and dirty tricks for the past 7 years against them.

Alas...it appears that the spine and the brain aren't connected. If it were, the GOP could have made political hay out of thousands of liberal hiccups in recent years.

17 posted on 07/24/2007 8:09:38 AM PDT by econjack
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Where are all the cries from the mainstream media about the corrupting influence of money in politics, the need for more campaign finance reform, and the clear evidence that the system is broken by the massive amounts of money raised?

What? The democrats are the ones with all the money? Nevermind.

18 posted on 07/24/2007 8:10:13 AM PDT by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: padre35

‘The Dhimis have a more extensive online fundraising apparatus, they also haven’t pissed on their base the way Jorge’ did, I cannot count the number of people who have said they put a “Jorge’ Peso” into a fundraising letter.’

Its telling those GOP candidates that are doing well have disavowed the Bush Administrations position on border security and Amnesty. I don’t think our anger with the Whitehouse will have any effect at all come 08, for the simple reason Bush won’t be on the ticket.


19 posted on 07/24/2007 8:10:18 AM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Thanks Jorge. Thanks alot.


20 posted on 07/24/2007 8:10:41 AM PDT by oldvike
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