Posted on 04/09/2008 5:08:35 AM PDT by PlainOleAmerican
The RNC is not the GOP. It’s only a collective national action committee for the state Republican parties, a fund raising and steering committee. Yet for far too long, the RNC has assumed increasing power over the political process to the detriment of the party.
Voter complacency and apathy towards the political process has left control of the party in the hands of a few centrist party elites and conservative voters have lost faith in their own party as a result.
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The Message in the Money?
Is McCain Listening?
Is the RNC Listening?
So Who has Whom in Check here?
Conservatives Next Move...
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
Is he right?
Be VERY CAREFUL where you put your political $ this time.
Iffen you don’t—THOSE RINOS WILL EAT IT ALL!
Not fully. The biggest problem many have is the spending side of things. Those in the house and senate have spent like drunken sailors. They continue to put forward me too light versions and think we should be happy. Drastic cuts are needed in wasteful government spending but not many seem to even want to try. They want to nibble here and there to throw the base a bone. At the same time they create massive new spending.
This is the reason I quit dontating money.
My political money goes the same place every year. In my pocket! I never have nor will I ever give my money to a politician!!!
Um... no.
They’re still not listening.
When Fred dropped out, my wallet closed.
I don’t understand it. The last time the RNC mailed me a request for money, I sent back my opinion without any money. They quit sending me mail.
Not willingly, of course but when you pay your taxes, you used to be able to check the box if you chose to "make a donation" to the "election process."
Guess what, not getting enough to "finance" elections, they now divert some of your $$$$$$ to campaigns. Those are what are referred to as "matching campaign $$$$."
As a drunken sailor of vast experience, I resent the degrading comparison to Members of Congress. At least as a drunken sailor, I was spending my OWN money.
SKCM(SS), USN Retired
McCain GETS ZERO DOLLARS
The RNC is NOT listening.
The RNC is looking for “magic words” to lie to the republicans to get the money and then turn around, kill the physical fence, give amnesty, kill tax cuts, return the AWB, and all sorts of other RINO actions that are an anathema to conservative.
NO MONEY FOR THE GOP
NO MONEY FOR THE RNC.
As I told the last caller asking for money for the GOP, “there’s not a dime’s worth of difference between the GOP and the Dims.”
With apologies to George Corley Wallace.
That is exactly my response to all fundraising calls now: Not a dime for anyone who isn’t a true conservative. I pick who I support, and I vet them myself. If I have to hold my nose and vote for McCain I will, but I won’t contribute. The Consevatives put the GOP in power, and we can take them out.
Agreed... one of several reasons I stopped giving to the RNC years ago.
But I DO give to individual candidates who stand for the right things, in hopes that we can replace both socialist democrats and liberal RINOs with real conservatives who will do the right things.
If you just stop giving to the RNC, they get the wrong message. We have to follow through with funding a better alternative.
So how do you plan on affecting policy?
Don’t worry, McCain is so impressed with his recent victory over the Constitution, (CFR) we can expect him to go after Rush and Conservatives by passing the “Fairness Doctrine”.
Typical McCaine, if you don’t like the message, then go after the messenger.
All I can say to you large numbers of McManiacs out there;
SUCKERS!
1. Amnesty = McCain / Kennedy (D)
2. Censorship = McCain / Feingold (D)
3. Gas Tax Increase = McCain / Lieberman (D)
4. McCain’s Proposed Democrat Ticket = Kerry / McCain (D)
5. Turncoats Who Asked to Switch Parties: McCain / Jeffords (D)
6. McCain’s American Conservative Union Rank= 47th / 100 = RINO
7. New York Times (D) Endorsed: McCain
8. Opposed Bush Tax Cuts = McCain + All Ds
9. McCain wants to keep the Death Tax
10. McCain wants to raise Social Security Taxes
11. McCain / ACLU (D) is Pro-Terrorist Rights
12. McCain/Kennedy(D)/Edwards(D) Tobacco = Trial Lawyers Dream Act
Why vote Democrat when you can have
A REAL LIBERAL: JOHN McCAIN!
Top Ten Reasons to Vote For McCain
1. Amnistía Si! Vota Para McCain!
2. Shut Up and Vote McCain / Feingold!
3. $4.00 Gasoline, here we come!
4. Clinton / McCain: The NY Times’ Ticket!
5. RINOs 4 McCain!
6. More Payroll & Death Taxes!
7. Gitmo Detainees Agree: Vote McCain!
8. Kill Conservatism: Vote Liberal, Vote McCain!
9. He Can’t Possibly Stab You in the Back Next!
10. He’ll find out who really stole the strawberries! – Vote Captain Queeg McCain!
Clearly, some of them are...
Some of them will never listen and those are the ones we need to replace.
But if we don’t work with the people who are listening, or preaching the right sermon, even if its only a few, then how do we make anything better?
Quitting changes only one thing, it leaves the opposition unopposed. Surely conservatives have a better plan than just quitting?
The most recent GOP letters I have received contain "surveys" of the kind designed to allow for only one possible "correct" answer. These are accompanied by a Message From The Chairman or whoever now thinks themselves in charge of that great big elephantine mess that now squats in supine luxury down there in D.C. The accompanying letter is always dramatic in tone, waxing eloquent about the need to stop the predations of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and their wild-eyed hoard of tax-and-spenders, and to preserve "Conservative Principles".
It is at this point that I often emit a rather large guffaw, at once bemused and bedeviled by the fact that Republicans are no less "tax-and-spenders" than the Donkey crowd, and that most Republican lawmakers don't appear to recognize any "principle" other than the need to win re-election.
And now they want me to ratchet up my enthusiasm (and open my wallet) for John McCain. I think that envelope will be going back empty, too.
LOL! Well said, COB!
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