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The RNC Is Making A BIG Mistakeā€¦ (RNC Expense "Scandal")
Virginia Virtucon ^ | 4/1/2010 | StaffordGOPer

Posted on 04/01/2010 8:21:45 AM PDT by ReagansRaiders

This past week we’ve seen a lot of criticism of the nearly $2,000 in RNC money that was spent at Voyeur West Hollywood, a “bondage-themed night club.”

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This whole uproar is just plain silly and I think the GOP is making a big mistake here. The Republican Party must seek to broaden its reach without betraying its own principles. So long as no laws or marital vows are being broken, then what happens between consenting adults is no one else’s business.

The GOP has a broad variety of coalitions based upon ethnic heritages, professions and various interests. Why not a BDSM one?

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Jim Geraghty of National Review Online’s Campaign Spot concurs that we shouldn’t act so hastily:

Now, look, if the end result of this mess is that the RNC recruits some Mistress Esmeralda to take on West Hollywood Congressman Henry Waxman, and running on a platform of fiscal discipline and whipping our budget into shape, she beats him – er, at the ballot box in a D+18 district, all is forgiven.

Hey, if the RNC had a BDSM coalition in the ’90s, then “Dominatrixes for Dole” might have helped Bob Dole win the presidency in 1996.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: coalitions; rnc
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1 posted on 04/01/2010 8:21:45 AM PDT by ReagansRaiders
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To: ReagansRaiders

>> So long as no laws or marital vows are being broken, then what happens between consenting adults is no one else’s business.

Except when it is happening with someone else’s money ...

SnakeDoc


2 posted on 04/01/2010 8:23:27 AM PDT by SnakeDoctor ("The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant ... that even a god-king can bleed." - 300)
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To: ReagansRaiders

Ah yes, the “big tent.”


3 posted on 04/01/2010 8:23:47 AM PDT by Persevero (Ask yourself: "What does the Left want me to do?" Then go do the opposite.)
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To: ReagansRaiders

Michael Steele MUST go. Hire Limbaugh to run the party through the elections.


4 posted on 04/01/2010 8:24:42 AM PDT by Grunthor (Over YOUR dead body!)
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To: ReagansRaiders

So... what, the author is advocating that everyone in Washington dress in leather and studs?


5 posted on 04/01/2010 8:25:02 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: ReagansRaiders

So I ask this writer, “What are the Republican Party’s principles,” such that a bondage-themed restaurant can’t possibly go against them?

Also, what’s wrong with donors individually choosing to defund the GOP based on what they know? Finally, what’s wrong with the GOP trying to keep those donors by “unpaying” the expense?

Get real.


6 posted on 04/01/2010 8:26:36 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Hypocrisy: "Animal rightists" who eat meat & pen up pets while accusing hog farmers of cruelty.)
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To: ReagansRaiders

Now who in the biden thinks that this is a good idea? Just another cheapening of American society.


7 posted on 04/01/2010 8:27:32 AM PDT by Bernard (One if by Land, Two if by Sea, Three if by Government)
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So... what, the author is advocating that everyone in Washington dress in leather and studs?

Or at least tied up and bullwhipped.

8 posted on 04/01/2010 8:27:40 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Obamacare: The 2010 version of the Intolerable Acts.)
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To: ReagansRaiders
“Dominatrixes for Dole” might have helped Bob Dole win the presidency in 1996.

I think Bob already had that constituency (ahem) locked up.

9 posted on 04/01/2010 8:28:38 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Civil Disobedience: Refuse Unconstitutional 0bummerCare. Let them try to arrest millions.)
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Take a look at the date of the post...
10 posted on 04/01/2010 8:28:56 AM PDT by ReagansRaiders (Sarah Palin - Bob McDonnell 2012)
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how many other such expenses are being covered up?

This is what happens when you feed the RINOs.

PLEASE DON’T FEED THE RINOS


11 posted on 04/01/2010 8:29:40 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Persevero

I think it was Tyrell in American Spector who said of Republican “big tent” politics during the reign of Bush Sr., “the tent keeps getting bigger and bigger, and more and more empty”!


12 posted on 04/01/2010 8:29:51 AM PDT by littleharbour
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To: ReagansRaiders

So we desperately need the votes of gals who work pretending they’re lesbians to win in 2010 and 2012?


13 posted on 04/01/2010 8:30:32 AM PDT by listenhillary (Capitalism = billions raised from poverty, Socialism = billions reduced to starvation)
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To: KarlInOhio
Or at least tied up and bullwhipped.

Finally a use for RINOs. For every 500 dollars you give the RNC you get one crack of the whip at Lindsey Graham.

14 posted on 04/01/2010 8:32:00 AM PDT by NeoCaveman ("workers of the world unite, it's not just a slogan anymore" SEIU's Andy Stern)
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To: ReagansRaiders

Liberal gibberish in order to make Republicans look bad.


15 posted on 04/01/2010 8:32:29 AM PDT by HighlyOpinionated (SPEAK UP REPUBLICANS, WE CAN'T HEAR YOU YET! IMPEACH OBAMA!)
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To: Persevero
Ah yes, the “big tent.”

Umm..is that the “big tent” in front of Michael Steel's pants after a visit to Mistress Domina at Hollywood? Chortle!

16 posted on 04/01/2010 8:33:43 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: ReagansRaiders

So where is the news that DNC spent $10,000.00 at Josephines strip club and expensed it? No mention of ever returning it either.


17 posted on 04/01/2010 8:34:39 AM PDT by OafOfOffice (W.C:Socialism:Philosophy of failure,creed of ignorance,gospel of envy,the equal sharing of misery)
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To: SmokingJoe

I don’t think it’s been alleged that Steele visited the establishment. . .


18 posted on 04/01/2010 8:35:48 AM PDT by Persevero (Ask yourself: "What does the Left want me to do?" Then go do the opposite.)
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To: ReagansRaiders

If members of the RNC want to grease up the Doberman and play all night on their own dime there is nothing I can or particulary want to do about it. But If they do it using my money you can bet your life they will never see another dime from me. I don’t make a lot of money and can only send in small contributions and when I do this it means I have to cut back somewhere (and, yes, I have sent the RNC money in the past). So I don’t want the money spent on anything other than things that directly relate to the campaign to defeat the leftists and not on joy rides or lavish parties or limos or private jets or whores. If the RNC is made up of people too stupid or degraded to understand this then I am all too willing to deny them any further support. Until the RNC can prove they have cleaned up their act any contributions I make in the future will go directly to candidates and the RNC can go pound sand.


19 posted on 04/01/2010 8:37:04 AM PDT by scory
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To: OafOfOffice

Josephine’s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L92FS9a5tkA&feature=related

DNC Drops $10k At Risque Night Club http://bit.ly/b1rMB1


20 posted on 04/01/2010 8:37:17 AM PDT by OafOfOffice (W.C:Socialism:Philosophy of failure,creed of ignorance,gospel of envy,the equal sharing of misery)
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