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Posted on 01/03/2010 6:45:04 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
With the Republican Party on the cusp of major gains in the House next year — and with the dream of retaking the House appearing to be a real, if improbable, possibility — one major obstacle remains: tightfisted Republican incumbents.
The National Republican Congressional Committee, the key cog in helping to finance GOP campaigns, has banked less than a third as much money as its Democratic counterpart and is ending the year with barely enough money to fully finance a single House race — no less the dozens that will be in play come 2010.
A big part of the problem, according to Republican strategists, is that GOP members themselves — the ones who stand the most to gain from large-scale House gains — haven’t chipped in accordingly, despite evidence of solid opportunities in at least 40 districts next year and with as many as 80 seats in play, according to the Cook Political Report’s estimates.
In the past three months, only 75 of 177 Republicans — most of whom represent safe districts — transferred money into the committee, netting it $2.1 million. The average donation was just $28,000, with only 11 members donating $50,000 or more during that time period.
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I just meant long enough to remake the GOP in her own image, then get out in time to win the 2012 presidential race.
Do you think Charles Djou can win? I was thinking he could run as Aiona’s Lt. Governor...
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Now if they were to start fielding staunch conservatives then their pocketbooks would have more money, but what's the chances of that happening any time soon?
Pissant would agree 1,000,000,000...%!
Politico is LATE to this PARADE..
BOUT TIME you figgered this out.. other than that... Three Puttin’s right..
FU Politico
I believe that is exactly the problem. If they choose to back RINO’s I refuse to send them a penny.
They need to robo-call with a message from that insightful Republican, Colin Lowell.
Here are some of the candidates SarahPac has contributed to: http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/6348/fecpalin.png
I’m not donating to any party-wide organizations this time around. I prefer to donate to individual candiates of my choice, although I may consider independent conservative PACs. It avoids my money going to finance candidates like Scozzafava. I’ve had enough of that and when they send me solicitations for donations I send them back with NY-23 written all over it.
Oops, meant Powell. Danger Droid is auto correcting me.
Oops, meant Powell. Danger Droid is auto correcting me.
GOP - still brain dead after all these years! I sense a song here...
Grrrrrrrr... I will figure this out.
So? i’m trying to figure out what you’re trying to say....if its because she gave to McCain and his friend Grahamnesty you barking up the wrong tree...if not then I stand corrected
We can also that that fat RINO POS Newt Gingrich for NY-23.
Thanks for posting this. Half of these candidates receiving SaraPAC money are RINOs! No different than any other party organ that makes its own decisions on how to spend my money!
This reinforces what others are saying: donate directly to the candidates. And now after seeing your link, it all makes perfect sense to me! Why should I contribute my money to organizations that select which candidates get my money? Why don't I just select the ones I want to contribute to and make the contributions directly to them?
The centralized model probably made some sense in the olden days, prior to every candidate having their own web site in which contributions can be made with a click of a button, and another click to have RoboForm fill in the blanks.
The centralized contribution model makes no sense at all now. For any of us. Each of us can now decide for ourselves who to donate to in elections all across the country, and easily effect the contributions. All we're doing by giving money to any Party organization is to give them our power. Every one of us should retain our power to contribute to ourselves and quit enabling the dysfunctional power brokers.
Directly contributing is something that I've already begun to do instinctively, and have planned to continue to do it even more so as candidate selections settle out. This is something that came naturally to me as I've never been involved in parties before, and am used to making my own purchasing decisions via Internet research and then effecting those decisions by purchasing from Internet businesses that I select myself. Furthermore, I make all of these decisions free from the tsunami of commercial advertising trying to engulf me from all directions. Deciding on contributing directly to candidates just seemed to me to be more of the same thing direct decision making and action taking that I had been doing. That is, directly contributing to House and Senate candidates all over the country, not just in my own neck of the woods.
But tonight, I realize that what I've been doing is actually revolutionary, cutting out the power brokers and exercising my power directly, without it being diluted or perverted by those antithetical to my beliefs and principals. I do not need to delegate my decision making power and my financial power to a power broker of any kind. I am completely capable of making my own decisions on every election I choose to study, and donating my money how I chose, and to whom I choose, and when I choose.
It would indeed be a revolution if each and every one of us quit donating anything to the central party organs, and simply directly contribute to who each of us selects for ourselves. This is true democracy in action, with all power reverting back to the individual contributor, and none usurped by power brokers. Money is power, and no where is this more true than campaign funding. Can you imagine candidates dependent only upon tens of thousands of smallish contributions, because the party organs now have none of our money to use as their own? The party organs lose all influence over the candidates and the candidates become totally dependent only on citizen-contributors. Thus the candidates must appease and please us, and can no longer ignore us like they do now!
I think this direct-contribution model, if fully implemented, is in and of itself a true revolution!
I think he’s got a bigger chance at Neil’s seat than possibly going down with Aiona. I really hope Aiona wins but I’m concerned he hasn’t done enough to distinguish himself. Swindle *almost* beat Neil back in 96 or at least made him cut his hair. I guess it depends on who the Democrats put up to run against Djou as to his chances. I’m afraid he’d overshadow Duke as well. I see Djou on TV a lot more than I do Duke, and that’s just as a city councilman.
I’ll support him financially to the degree we can - he earned my devotion the day our 17-year-old son went down to testify at the Big Square Building. He dressed up very professionally and gave a short presentation he had prepared on his own against rail, speaking as a future UH student who lived leeward. One of the other councilmen tried to shut him up when he hit the 60-second mark or whatever the limit was (I’ve forgotten) but Djou stood up for him and convinced the rest to let him finish.
Dede Scozzafava is Ms. GOP.
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For those who don't know, Politico is required to run at least two Republicans are SO hosed articles every week. Most weeks there are five or six. If you happen to own an electronic virtual bird, you can line its cage with them. 