I finally stopped giving to the GOP. It took me a while but it finally occurred to me that I could give to Tea Party people or individual candidates. I think that when you donate to the Republican party the way it is your money is being combined with the big donors money but it is the big donors who are making the decisions as to what is being done with your money. They take our money, give it to their stupid, weak candidates and then use our donations to pretend that they have massive support among the people. We should leave them naked with their billionaire donors so that they will be exposed as not having any support with regular people.
“I finally stopped giving to the GOP.”
I did that back in GWB’s first term, and I just told the University of California Alumni Association the same thing (those Marxist a$$holes!). Now, like you, I only give money directly to people in whom I have some degree of confidence will do what they say they are going to do. Doesn’t always turn out that way, but is sure as hell eliminates the GOPE.