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.
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.