Posted on 09/19/2014 5:39:50 AM PDT by cotton1706
The substantial gap between how much Democrats have on hand to spend for television campaign ads versus how much cash is in Republican coffers is why a GOP Senate majority remains in doubt, writes veteran Republican strategist Karl Rove in The Wall Street Journal.
Democrats have been raising more money than Republicans and have $25 million on hand compared to $20 million for Republicans. They have committed or spent $109 million in political commercials versus $80 million for the Republicans since the beginning of September. The president continues to bring in big bucks for the Democrats, Rove writes.
Rove, who raises money for Republican candidates through his American Crossroads/Crossroads GPS, writes that while GOP totals could yet rise and the Democratic advantage could well be narrowed, Republicans need to close the gap.
For now, he writes, Democrats are spending more in such key senatorial races as Alaska ($6.4 million to $3.6 million), Arkansas ($6.2 million to $4.6 million), Colorado ($8.5 million to $7 million), Iowa, ($8.5 million to $5.6 million), Louisiana ($5.7 million to $5.6 million) and North Carolina ($17.6 million to $7.8 million).
"Republicans do not need to outspend Democrats to prevail," but they do need to "reach a certain sufficiency of advertising in the next six weeks," he writes.
To win, Republican candidates have to effectively defend themselves. For instance, they have to be able to address Democratic charges that the GOP has conducted a "war on women."
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1. Because they spent so much money to defeat EVERY conservative across the country to protect their precious Senate, and
2. Because none of us are giving them a dime, and are enjoying hanging up on them when they call.
Notta dime..
I’ll give to those I want to win.
This is the idiot that blew how much in 2012 with zero results? Then it was the people. When he finally runs out of excuses, perhaps he will realize that its him that is the issue.
They used to call me all the time, I told the guy that when the RNC grew a pair, actually returned to the Conservative values of the party and got rid of Boehner, maybe, just maybe I’d donate. Otherwise I donated to the Conservative Candidate of my choice. Needless to say, they don’t call anymore.
I can only speak for myself but I haven’t donated one dime to the R party since they began openly insulting Americans, since NY’s R Hanna insulted Americans who voted for him, since they sought amnesty for millions of lawbreakers while forcing honorable immigrants into expensive pretzel processes to immigrate, and since they exalted such members as C Powell and C Christie, both of whom do more for the Dems than for Repubs.
The R party also has no visible principles, other than to work with the most generous donors. The R party ignores, if not detests, Americans.
I HAVE recently donated to J Ernst, the NRA, and SarahPAC. To paraphrase A Lincoln, “they fight!”
Maybe if he still had some of that cash he blew in 2012 to no result, he could be spending it on no results this year.
Maybe, just maybe they actually need to coherently communicate conservative/ constitutional principles. This can only be done by a candidate who believes in those principles, think Ted Cruz.
In other words, dump Karl Rove and the establishment and become a truly alternative party. Thad Cochran outspent his Tea Party opponent, and barely squeaked out a win. How much $$$ was wasted there? Personally I will not give a dime to the GOP until they get their act together, nor will I vote for them against Hillary if they serve up another McCain/Romney type. I'll stay home.
. . . I don’t even send back 39 cents anymore (not that anyone else seems to remember Jack Benny. . . )
I have to agree with you. If my preferred candidate is defeated in a primary, I will usually just shrug my shoulders and support the winner of the primary in the general. But this year, with McConnell and others spending millions of dollars to specifically and openly target conservative candidates across the country, even going so far as to directly ask Dems to intervene in a GOP primary to defeat another GOP candidate, I feel no loyalty to the party. They obviously feel no loyalty to anything other than preserving their own position and privilege.
Even now, before the election even occurs, you have people like Boehner talking about passing amnesty in the lame duck. If they are openly talking about that now, before the vote, what makes anyone think they will be MORE conservative once they don’t have to face the voters for another 2 years?
I’ll give to Sarah but never Rove. And he does hate her.
And she could kick his fat ass.
Mississippi turned a lot of people off. You reap what you sow.
Not one cent nor one second of effort toward the GOPe and the RINOs. Never again.
Actually, I’m giving more money than ever — but ONLY to the campaigns of candidates I respect.
Why should I fund the GOP’s “professional consultants” who always seem to prefer soft RINO-inspired messages?
I wrote and told the RNC that after Mississippi I wouldn’t give them a dime. I’ll give to individual candidates instead.
I just print out a handful of those McCain Pesos and send them back in their prepaid envelope.
Not ONE penny... they have betrayed all of us TOOOO often!
Ok, thats pretty awesome.
It's not money.
It's Mississippi.
Not one penny will I send!
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