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Republicans concerned over RNC fundraising [McCain/Palin contributors: your money went to the RNC]
The Hill, Washington DC ^ | 2009-03-16 | Reid Wilson

Posted on 03/16/2009 6:36:21 PM PDT by rabscuttle385

GOP strategists and party leaders are increasingly worried that the party’s run of bad news over the last month and a half is set to continue this week as the Republican National Committee (RNC) prepares to release what are expected to be markedly low fundraising numbers on Friday.

The RNC has consistently outraised the Democratic National Committee on a month-by-month basis. Observers say that streak is likely to end this month.

. . . . .

Steele already had a high bar to meet; in January, under former Chairman Robert “Mike” Duncan, the committee raised more than $13.1 million, including about $7 million in transfers from Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) presidential campaign.

. . . . .

The majority of RNC donors hand over smaller checks, largely as a result of the committee’s vaunted mail and phone programs. But Steele jeopardized the party’s standing with those donors as well, thanks to a public spat with radio host Rush Limbaugh and a flub on a question about abortion, which drew criticism from major voices in the social conservative movement.

“Tens of millions of conservatives and Republicans have nothing to do with the RNC and they want nothing to do with the RNC and when you call them asking for money they hang up on you,” Limbaugh said in a March 2 monologue directed specifically at Steele.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fundraising; gop; mccain; mccainpalin; mccaintruthfile; rinoparty; rinos; rnc; steele; steelemustgo
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma; ChrisInAR
With all of McCain's faults, this would not be happening if he were in the WH.

You really think the amnesty-loving, bailout-supporting, interventionist media whore McCain is better? If McCain is so much better than Obama, point out one area where they differ substantially and in more than just words. [No, the issue of earmarks do not count against McCain's little bailout stunt last autumn.]

And...just remember, McCain said Obama would be a great president and is a good man. So, why are you to doubt him?

61 posted on 03/16/2009 8:10:36 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: rabscuttle385

I sent their last letter back in their paid envelope telling them I would donate to real Republicans, and I would not give money to the RNC and the RINOS. Then told them to take my name off of their mailing list until Steele was gone.


62 posted on 03/16/2009 8:13:28 PM PDT by mojitojoe ( Idiots elected a Marxist ideologue with narcissistic personality disorder & America is dying.)
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To: PALIN SMITH

couldn’t agree more - stay focused!!


63 posted on 03/16/2009 8:15:38 PM PDT by elpadre (nation)
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To: elpadre
I didn't say “support.”

No, but you did imply it.

Deliberately neglecting to "knock" those non-conservative Republicans is just plain wrong. It's just as bad as governing for the sake of governing rather than governing towards a stated end; it's just as bad as saying that you only vote Republican, even for liberal RINOs, while simultaneously claiming to be a conservative.

You are playing right into the hands of the Democrats.

First off, I'm not a Republican. Second, I play into the hands of no party. As an independent conservative voter, I will vote for conservatives, not Republicans pretending to be conservatives.

That said, if a particular Republican is also a conservative, I have no problem supporting him or her.

64 posted on 03/16/2009 8:15:46 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: Rome2000

You need to meet AZ RNC Committeeman Bruce Ash. You know-nothings are ceding the country to the RATs. Congratulations.


65 posted on 03/16/2009 8:19:04 PM PDT by DLfromthedesert
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To: rabscuttle385

if our opponents goal is to divide and conquer, they are succeeding.


67 posted on 03/16/2009 8:21:20 PM PDT by elpadre (nation)
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To: rabscuttle385

If McCain is so much better than Obama, point out one area where they differ substantially and in more than just word
___________
I can do it in 4 words.

McCain isn’t a Communist


68 posted on 03/16/2009 8:21:36 PM PDT by mojitojoe ( Idiots elected a Marxist ideologue with narcissistic personality disorder & America is dying.)
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To: mojitojoe
McCain isn’t a Communist

No, he's just a sympathizer of Communists.

69 posted on 03/16/2009 8:26:52 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: elpadre; fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy; rabscuttle385

McCain and other RINOs are ‘playing right into the hands of the democrats”.

I hear what you’re saying, by some people’s standards 90% of the Republicans in Congress are RINOs.

But we have some bad trash in our party we need to clean up, like Arlen Specter and John McCain (his overally voting record is fine but that masks his negative impact), people that hurt the conservative agenda from inside the GOP.

Certainly this should be discussed. I don’t see how talking about one thing detracts from another.

We should scream and point at the inferno across the street while ignoring the smoke rising from our own house?

I criticized RINO President Bush this one time and some guy said it was “playing into the hands of democrats” and detracting from the fight against Obama.

I don’t get the argument, this is a discussion forum.


70 posted on 03/16/2009 8:42:41 PM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: elpadre

Yeah, in 100 years they’ll all be gone


71 posted on 03/16/2009 9:00:25 PM PDT by LachlanMinnesota
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To: rabscuttle385
From the linked article, noting how Steele "cleaned house" by firing a bunch of staffers but hasn't yet replaced them:

“They don’t have a finance director. That may have an impact on fundraising,” deadpanned one prominent Republican fundraiser.

ROFL! I admire somebody who can find the humor in a disastrous situation like this. Mind you, I don't admire him enough to send the RNC any money, but it is a pretty good line.
72 posted on 03/16/2009 9:04:36 PM PDT by Eagle Forgotten
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma

“I just finished reading threads about Obama’s desire to have our brave military furnish their own medical insurance. Excuse me, we have this traitor in the WH and we bicker over our chairman.”

The reason Obama is in the White House is because there has been no real leadership with any spine in the GOP willing to stand on conservative principals. I am sick and tired of the go along to get along beltway Republican crowd. Michael Steele is just the latest example. Republicans need to stop trying to adapt their party and agenda based on the false premises the Democrats have created.

If there has ever been a time to fight to reestablish conservatism within the GOP, now is that time. And if this means we “bicker” or have a good old proverbial ‘knock-down, drag out’ over who the chairman of the RNC is, then so be it. It has been a long time coming.

America already has one democrat party and the liberals already have a political vehicle. They don’t need another.


73 posted on 03/16/2009 9:16:15 PM PDT by ThomasSawyer
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To: rabscuttle385

eff the RNC....give yer money to conservative groups


74 posted on 03/16/2009 9:18:09 PM PDT by wardaddy (The world has gone to shite since I was a lad in the idyllic 60s)
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma

“I’ll take McCain any day.”

I’ll second that. How I wish he had one. It appears that Justice Ginsberg will be resigning from the Supreme Court soon. We could have had a shot, at least.


75 posted on 03/16/2009 11:51:12 PM PDT by Marie2 (Ora et labora)
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To: rabscuttle385

“McCain isn’t a Communist”

“No, he’s just a sympathizer of Communists.”

I really don’t think you should say that of anyone who spent years at the Hanoi Hilton. That is really over the top.


76 posted on 03/16/2009 11:53:50 PM PDT by Marie2 (Ora et labora)
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To: Impy; fieldmarshaldj
>> I hear what you’re saying, by some people’s standards 90% of the Republicans in Congress are RINOs. But we have some bad trash in our party we need to clean up, like Arlen Specter and John McCain (his overally voting record is fine but that masks his negative impact), people that hurt the conservative agenda from inside the GOP. <<

We do need to distinguish between "moderate" Republicans and liberal Republicans, and make it a priority to go after the MOST leftist-leaning elected officials in the GOP. People in general (and many freepers) can't seem to distinguish between a moderate Republican and a liberal Republican, and the media plays right along with this, claiming all Republicans are either "hard right conservatives" or "moderates", even if the "moderate" they're discussing vote to the left of many Democrats.

Norm Coleman is a "moderate" Republican. He's certainly not as conservative as me but he's miles ahead of the drug-addled socialist kook who ran against him. Mark Kirk is NOT a "moderate" Republican, he is a liberal douchebag, and his "debate" with his RAT opponents consist of them arguing over who will do a better job implementing Obama's agenda (Kirk's TV ads even GLOATED that he was rated "better than Obama" by some "progressive" groups!).

These closet Democrats running as Republicans are slipping through the cracks because freepers aren't exposing them for what they are. Many rank-and-file conservative voters STILL don't realize Kirk is a liberal, they just read the media's talking points that he's a Iraq veteran whose "moderate" an "expert on defense issues". Look at all the freepers screaming bloody hell at Susan Collin voting for Porkulus. She was up for re-election LAST year and no one noticed! Not ONE conservative challenged her in the primary! (A conservative would not be expected to win in Maine, but at the very least a primary challenge would have forced Collins to the right in order to be renominated) Freepers were too busy whining about other Republicans who voted on the wrong way on one bill that happened to be their little pet issue.

I would infinitely prefer getting rid of a Republican who is with me 30% of the time than getting rid of a Republican who with me "only" 80% of the time. Don't understand why so many conservatives feel the opposite way. I guess they figure the 80% "RINOs" are easier to defeat in the primary, but well... that's why things like Porkulus get passed. It should be priority #1 to go after ANY "Republican" who votes with the Democrats more often than they vote with us.

77 posted on 03/17/2009 1:35:39 AM PDT by BillyBoy (Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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To: rabscuttle385

They SHOULD be concerned.

Grassley calling for the suicide of AIG people is just the lastest in a series of BONEHEADED GOP moves.

Snowjob, Sphincter and Kate Hepburn all screwing the pooch on PORKULUS.

Steele (I like the man, frankly) puttin’ his foot in his mouth.

Republicans COULD be stirring their base to action and expanding their base by preaching liberty. Instead, they’re spinning wheels in the mud.


78 posted on 03/17/2009 2:38:12 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat (I'm SO glad I no longer belong to the party of Dependence on Government!)
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To: rabscuttle385; All

Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, Michigan, Chairman of the Republican House Policy Committee talks about the state of the GOP and how to Restore the Republican Party.
This is in 4 parts.
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=RepMcCotter&view=videos&start=80


79 posted on 03/17/2009 2:43:07 AM PDT by anglian
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma

I voted for pastor Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party, & I’m proud that I didn’t vote for the POS Juan McCain.

I wish I coulda done it 100 times, because I REFUSE to vote for a presidential candidate that either flat-out refuses to do his duty to protect & defend the Constitution of the United States (McCain) or whose view of the Constitution is so muddled by Marxist thought that it has no meaning to them (Obama).

As far as I’m concerned, BOTH of them have been or are committing treason against our Constitution & nation, & should be punished accordingly.


80 posted on 03/17/2009 2:58:06 AM PDT by ChrisInAR (The Tenth Amendment is still the Supreme Law of the Land, folks -- start enforcing it for a CHANGE!)
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