True, but does it make sense to fund a dishonest and non-Conservative GOP now, in order to create the organizational infrastructure and opportunities that will force it to become honest and Conservative down the road?
Building a permanent, 50-state campaign apparatus (which was Howard Dean’s goal as DNC Chair) is going to open a LOT of paid opportunities for Tea Party and other Conservative activists. Who will then grow in influence within the larger GOP organization (formal and informal) over time.
But that sort of thing takes time, patience, the willinness to take intraparty political losses, etc without just upping and walking away in anger and frustration.
This is how the Progressives worked within the Democrats over the last few generations. The 1970s battles between the Progressives and the Dem old guard were legendary, for instance. And while progs like Patricia Schroeder got kicked in the teeth quite a bit by her own Party, she and her fellow travellers were patient enough to play the long game knowing their to e would come.
It did, and it’s now her/their political heirs running the Dems and the country.
But the GOPe is all around incompetent and corrupt—funding them doesn’t lead to positive results.
Just look at how good they are with advanced computer apps compared to the Dems—and then also look at how much insider dealing there is with top RNC staffers making millions off of providing failed applications to the RNC.