Posted on 04/22/2008 12:35:06 AM PDT by The_Republican
But the Republicans have got to get their heads out of their rumps. RNC voter surveys that include guilt donation demands? Hello - you want my money, you start fighting for my desires, and you actually put out a national message. Otherwise, I might as well simply toss the money out the window. It sure goes to better use on this forum than it'll ever do with the RNC.
“In contrast, Democrat Barack Obama has raised more than $236 million for his campaign. He raised nearly $43 million in March and ended the month with $51 million in cash and no debts.”
It just continues to astound me that this empty suit has actually raised nearly a quarter of a billion dollars in contributions (and the tap is still flowing, to boot!). Especially since so much of his money supposedly comes from “small online donors.”
Good decision I think. The small money is not going to come. So its time for RNC to got to 28K per donation guys and get it done.
It might be a good decision, but I am not sure how it will affect the house and senate seats that may need the money even more. Typically Presidential candidates can raise money on their own...at least easier.
George Soros accounts donating online with bots through proxies.
John (die hard) McClain and his distain for 'so called' conservatives will kill all fundraising for the GOP. You can't bite the hand that feeds you and expect another handout...
McCain has spent a lifetime spending other peoples money - he will never realize that the well ran dry when he dissed conservatives in favor of those cash happy independents and liberals who are so enthused to send him campaign contributions /s.
So either way he gets my money. We'll need to change this in the future.
Not one dime. I want to see who's the veep on the ticket. Better be someone I'd want running the country.
Not one red cent until then and no guarantee if I don't like the veep.
He is finding out that the mushy spineless middle he is courting just doesn’t pay.
Oh please, as much as everyone jumps around and whines around here, John McCain isn't killing the GOP's fundraising, the GOP is killing the GOP's fundraising. They've been telling conservatives for years to suck it up and shut up about a number of social and fiscal issues, hammering down most conservatives on a national level, and quashing those on the local level so as to 'protect' their precious cargo of Rinos.
John McCain isn't the problem, he's the culmination of years long effort by the GOP to make the party less conservative in an 'outreach' to the rest of America, chasing a fictional creation of the modern media commentators that are eager to tell America what they want, and ignore every single poll and vote that blatantly says what they do want: Secure borders, an end to the endless handouts, control over the national budget, a smaller government, less federal intrusion into their daily lives.
As I've said, time and time again, you gotta go a long distance to make John McCain look good; compared to the national party, he does look good. He's soft on borders, but we've had national releases wanting more open borders. He's stomped on our free speech, but we had the national committee saying it was just a good first step. He's been on the wrong side of judge selection while the national party has demanded that we moderate our viewpoints and work with the opposition.
So, no, John McCain isn't the enemy - he's just a foot soldier in a much larger battle, that of a completely detached national leadership that pushes pretty faces and empty track records forward, while spending like drunken sailors on a 3 hour shore leave ticket, who are just tickled pink in giving beanies to just about any group they can possibly fit into a fundraiser dinner.
I'll start contributing to the national party once more when they slash their own budgets, end insane benefits packages, and treat it like a real party instead of a gathering of friends who live off the bilked donations of the people. They don't treat the party seriously, so why should I treat them seriously?
Yup ... you said it. Anything from the RNC I get in the mail looking for money gets “filed” immediately. I've given them enough in the past and look what we got ... GW a limp wrist-ed liberal in his last term and a bunch of spend happy lib repubs.
To all those Republican “leaders” - McCain, Martinez, Graham, Mehlman, etc., who told us to shut up on amnesty and a lot of other issues, enjoy the fruits of your labor.
Looks like we nobodies have the final word.
It will be a long winter for the Republican party. Let’s hope by 2012 these clowns are long gone and true conservative leadership has replaced them to clean up the mess the Democrats will create in the next few years.
or it could be lots of people fronting george soro's cash
Republican Party’s presumptive nominee
I have seen this said before too. SO you are saying theres still a chance! lol. SOmeone mentioned the dems might just nominate mccain, I hope that is true.
I am not pinning my hopes on a VP, W left us out to dry by not replacing Chaney. I hope Mccain chooses another rino, arlene suspector or olympiad snowjob.
But still.... Some says that McCain would be bush’s 3rd term and considering what all the polls says about Bush.....
With all that money the dems are digging up and spending, I think it would be a kick if McCain still won in November. It would mean no matter how much money, how many slanted polls the dems can cough up, this country still doesn’t want them.
I’ve heard rumblings about if you don’t vote for Oboma, you are a racist. Geez! Now THAT is something to campaign on.
Maybe I’ve never paid as much attention in past election seasons but I can’t remember and odder one than this one.
The Clintons spent years feathering her run for the White House. Every move she’s made was designed for this moment including the creation of various smear organizations like Media Matters and Moveon and they’ve all dumped her... even her best of pals dumped her for an empty suited Marxist American-hating black man.... all strikes me funny. Now she needs at least 10% points tomorrow to even hope to stay in the race.
Right now, money is flowing for who ever becomes the Democrats nominee. Not only in campaign contributions, they are busy gathering millions upon millions for smear campaigns against McCain.
The stack against McCain is being stacked as you read this. Even a BUNCH of people from his own party. So.....
So what if through all that, McCain still wins. I don’t think McCain is that good or bad but I’m still not convinced that anything the Dems can muster even with all the hundreds of millions of dollars, would make the liberal left wing more acceptable.
I think between now and November, it can only get more amusing.
you know I hadnt thought of that, might be good to see all the money obama/soros/hillary wasted. but then that means mccain is president so its a toss up.
I’ve been thinking along those lines myself. I certainly wouldn’t put it past Soros (or Obama) to pull a scheme like that.
that’s why I call him the most dangerous man in the world.
We told the RNC that we would not support candidates who were not conseratives. I guess they didn’t believe us.
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