Why Aren't Republican Donors Giving?

Townhall ^ | 7/24/07 | Hugh Hewitt

[Calpernia]

In fairness, the Log Cabin take over of the GOP started in 1997.

[meandog]

Why aren’t they giving? If the party hadn’t “Bushed” up its majority and caved to every “Bushing” issue that the Dims brought up, the GOP coffers would be overflowing by now. But instead the GOP was content to back a “Bushed” up Rumsfeld strategy at the beginning of Iraq. It backed the “Bushing” No Child and prescription drugs bills, it witnessed a really “Bushed” up mess in the aftermath of a hurricane knocking the “Bush” out of New Orleans, but when it was obviously the fault of a Dim mayor and governor, it saw a weak “Bushing” explanation from the Oval Office about how the “Bushing” mess occurred. Above all, it saw a really bad “Bushing” issue over illegal immigration and the “Bushed” up fingerprints of the president’s all over it. So no wonder they are having trouble, most folks are just saying “Bush” you and hanging up when the GOP calls.

[Plains Drifter]

I make no apologies for my suggestion of Tom DeLay being head of the RNC. I could care less if he called anybody names, he has a spine and he knows how to play rough. Until this party gets people in it who know how to fight dirty and will fight dirty it will never win against the Dems. I’ve learned over the years you play by the rules, you lose.

[ghostrider]

Republicans aren’t donating to “teach” a lesson. Unfortunately for the U.S.A. that lesson will cost us dearly if Hillary Clinton is elected.

That is exactly the kind of crap that got us where we are. "If you don't vote for the Repo filth, then you will get perverted Demo filth." Worse yet, "If you don't vote for the devil's representative, you will get the devil himself." Here is another warning, "If the Repo rank and file don't demand excellence, then they will get the same filth no matter who wins." Why does it matter whether Hillary or some Repo Sicko gives our country to socialist dictators, illegal immigrants, Wall Street Bankers and Global financial syndicates? In either case, the country is still lost. The only hope for our future is to demand excellence. Without it we are lost.

[DManA]

What was unfair about my post?

[CindyDawg]

I’m starting to look at the GOP the same way I do public schools. I don’t know if it can be “fixed” It may be too late.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

When Kit Bond voted for the amnesty bill, that was all she wrote for me.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I gave. I mailed a bunch of pesos to the Wisconsin GOP last week. ;)

[normy]

Wrong! Republicans are not donating because Republicans don't trust the RNC or the President aside from the war. Republicans as a party treated Republicans the donors like serfs who need to obey their masters in the WH and Senate. Republicans called Republican donors bigots, racists, and vigilantes while calling illegals the backbone of America. I am not giving not to teach a lesson but because I really can't consider myself a Republican as much as I do a Conservative. Get Conservatives in the leadership positions in the RNC and maybe I will give.

I have given to Duncan Hunter and I will probably give to Cornyn when the time comes. My Congressman Sam Johnson will get some cash if he wants it.

The "hillary might be President" scare tactic is actually hilarious now, may as well throw in the "Judges and gays will marry" lines too.

[Little Ray]

Dunno.
Maybe ‘cause so may high-profile ‘Pubbies are actin’ like Democrats?

[Calpernia]

I like to keep Clinton’s name attached to events from his administration. People seem to forget.

[normy]

You do have a nice couple of Senators there but don’t forget my boy Cornyn.

[Plains Drifter]

You win the prize!!!! You nailed it, your message has to get thru The thick heads at RNC.

[Tennessean4Bush]

Who would give to a party that supports Arlen Specter.

Precisely. When Democrats abandon their principles for pure political calculation, their support does not waver. When Republicans do, as in the case with Specter vs Toomey, it crushes the support from their base. Abandoning Toomey and supporting Specter was a Faustian deal Bush and others struck, and look what they got for their troubles.

[Atlas Sneezed]

[CindyDawg]

Do candidates have to share any individual donations with the party? Do you know?

[Plains Drifter]

GRRRRRRRRRRRRReat Post!!!!!!!!!!

RE#66

[ghostrider]

That says it all - quick & simple. “Bush” Bush’s party of globalism.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

I told them NOT one dollar for them in Washington because I can still remember the immigration fiasco when so many of the GOP elites thought they would pass that disastrous bill WITH the dems.

I agree. When the Wall is built, I'll contribute.

[Spiff]

Who in their right mind would donate to a party whose chairman is Mel 'La Raza' Martinez? In my state, Independents can vote in either Primary Election. I'm so damned sick of the RNC, NRCC, NRSC, President Bush, and some prominent Republican candidates and current members of Congress that I don't know why I'm still in this damned party anymore. I know its a tired phrase, but I didn't leave the Republican Party, the Republican Party left me. I'm this || close to tearing up my registration card and going Independent. The only thing keeping me from doing it is that I see some hope in my own State Republican Party with the recent election of Randy Pullen (conservative, organizer of Proposition 200, Minuteman Project member, etc.) as the party chairman. But he's got the RINO's all riled up and they've formed a shadow party and are doing everything they can to undermine him and the state party. If they succeed and retake power here, then I won't hesitate to switch my registration.

The only donations the RNC has received from me lately are the George Bush Pesos. They don't seem to be getting the message.

I've been a Republican most of my voting life. I voted for Ronald Reagan for President. I'm a Precinct Committeeman and I've served as a State Delegate. I was elected President of a conservative Republican Club. I've served on several Republican campaigns to include a congressional campaign. But if the party doesn't get its collective sh** together and stop betraying its traditional values and its conservative base, then I'll have no choice but to let it drive itself off the cliff that it seems so damned determined to.