You can bet the RNC isn't "too big to fail".
Let it go bankrupt. The Tea Party can pick up its prime assets for pennies on the dollar.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 11/16/2010 10:50:53 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Top RNC aide quits, blasts Steele By: Jonathan Martin November 16, 2010 01:06 PM EST
Republican National Committee political director Gentry Collins resigned from his post Tuesday morning with a stinging indictment of Chairman Michael Steele’s two-year tenure at the committee.
In a four-page letter to Steele and the RNC’s executive committee obtained by POLITICO, Collins lays out inside details, previously only whispered, about the disorganization that plagues the party. He asserts that the RNC’s financial shortcomings limited GOP gains this year and reveals that the committee is deeply in debt entering the 2012 presidential election cycle.
“In the previous two non-presidential cycles, the RNC carried over $4.8 million and $3.1 million respectively in cash reserve balances into the presidential cycles,” Collins writes, underlining his words for emphasis. “In stark contrast, we enter the 2012 presidential cycle with 100% of the RNC’s $15 million in lines of credit tapped out, and unpaid bills likely to add millions to that debt.”
The short version of the RNC's 2010 troubles as described by Collins: The committee couldn’t afford to run an independent expenditure ad campaign on behalf of their candidates, didn’t fund a paid voter turnout operation for Senate and gubernatorial races, left its vaunted 72-Hour turnout program effectively unfunded, offered only a fraction of the direct-to-candidate financial contributions they made four years ago and dramatically scaled back its support of state parties.
Steele has not indicated whether he will seek another term at the helm of the committee and an array of Republicans are already maneuvering to ensure that he does not win re-election in the event he runs. The depth of the party’s problems his political director reveals is likely to make it considerably more difficult for the embattled chairman if he does pursue a second term.
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they need to give the job back to Haley Barber. He has no chance to be elected President and he was the best RNC Chair they ever had.
Whatever Steele’s shortcomings, the RNC began its steep declin under Martinez. His embrace of Amnesty turned off the GOP base, and former contributors went elsewhere thereafter.
Two fatal mistakes made by the Bush administration were appointing Mel Martinez as RNC Chair, and Scott McClellan as his WH Spokesperson.
But ... we ... ummm ... lost Delaware because ... ahhhhh ... O'Donnell was ... ummmm ... a really bad candidate.
Got to see the lack of a GOTV-72 hr program and renegging on promises. They are broke, we broke them by not sending money and sending it to Tea Party Candidates. And still, I don’t think they got the message. Do we have to invoke old jokes on getting someone’s attention? My gosh, how deaf can they be?
Time to dump Steele...and the GOP needs to get away from the quasi-Democrat, Liberal Globalist wimps they have had running the party...and get a real conservative
The folks following Mehlman never publicly came to grips with that issue and that caused many traditionalists to cut off donations to the national party.
BTT
This is Rove and Slick Willard’s people trying to stage a coup at the RNC. I have no great love for Steele, but if anyone is to blame for the lousy fundraising at the RNC, it’s Rove and his American Crossdressers siphoning off huge amounts of regular Republican donors.
If we’re going to replace Steele, we should vet the replacement VERY carefully.
The problem isn’t really Steele. The problem is the GOP. People are mad, and they are not giving.
As much as people like GW Bush as a person, they are mad at some of the things the GOP did under him, and they are mad about McCain, and they are mad about some of the shots taken by the GOP against conservatives and conservative leaders and Tea Party folk, and they are mad that every time they turn around the GOP is trying to foist another McCain on them, another amnesty bill on them, and refusing to take on the socialists.
So they react the only way they know how; give money directly to the candidate and refuse to give it to the party.
I have a friend who worked the phone banks for the local GOP and she said it was misery; every phone call she was getting cussed out by the party member on the other end of the line. People are mad.
Take a hike Steele.
You are a chump with an NPR sounding voice.
I want someone with core values, a plan and gonnads.
You have none.
Good post! You said it much better than I could.
Martinez may have brought about the death of the RNC but Steele dug the grave and tossed on the dirt!
I’m beginning to think that Barbour will be the GOP compromise choice for its ‘12 presidential candidate. He’s effectively governed MS, got that state thru Katrina, and generally is more acceptable to more constituencies within the GOP.
BUT I am still miffed that back in ‘96 Barbour decided to hold back spending till well into the cycle, while Clinton, who was eminently beatable early in that year, was pumping in money under the rader. Clinton had it all sewn up before the RNC spent the first dime.
Yeah, let Steele and his nodding agreement about white “racism”, with ignorant, semi-literate thug rappers, go elsewhere.
Maybe it is time to just end the RNC, it is obsolete.
Bingo they kept callin’ I kept sayin’ I’d give to candidates of my choice (I only started in 2008 to begin with) and the reasons why I wouldn’t give the RNC or any of their surrogates those funds.
I think in this case Atlas has shrugged - and yet we still had more spent on this midterm than ever - it just went direct instead of through the laundering/candidate of their choice.
To you & I these were mistakes but to the RINO government these were right-on calls & see what it got us - The big-eared commie Moooslim.
Sad, because M.Steele had kind words for Gentry Collins.
Gentry most recently served as the Midwestern Regional Campaign manager for McCain-Palin 2008 where he recruited a record setting volunteer organization that made more voter contacts than any Republican nominee in history.
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The RNC that M.Steele took over - was the only game in town. Soon thereafter, with TEA activists and other PACs competing for dollars - Ken Blackwell would have had similar problems.
The GOP won 60+ House seats - 6 Senate seats and 7 State Governors’ offices from incumbent Dems - with an impotent RNC. Maybe it’s time for State organizations only.
You can bet the RNC isn't "too big to fail".
Let it go bankrupt. The Tea Party can pick up its prime assets for pennies on the dollar.
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