Posted on 07/28/2020 3:42:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
One of the big problems with professional conservatism is that many of the people who are part of it are so remarkably bereft of humility while also having so much to be humble about. Take the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) – please. You would think that the organization that botched the 2018 midterms and lost the House might want to listen to its base. But no. No, we knuckle dragging voters are an obstacle to the real objective – which apparently is not victory. If only these people were as committed to fighting liberals as they are fighting conservatives.
Remember, all those Lincoln Project dorks were once “Republican” campaign consultants too. That’s the demo we’re dealing with here.
So, you know how you get all those text messages from various campaign entities that make you want to reach into your phone and throttle the sender? The ones that let you know that Donald Trump is greatly disappointed in you? Well, one popped up on my cell and I lost it. I got fed up. I was done. It read:
"We texted you TWICE. Why did you let your 500% Trump House Patriot match expire AGAIN? We'll give you 1 more chance. 500% match for 1 HR https://nrcc.news/30H8A."
Astonishingly, someone apparently made a conscious decision to send this to me. Let’s unpack it.
“We texted you TWICE.” Wrong. Try dozens of time. These numb-skulled messages have my phone lighting up like a molly dealer’s at Freaknik. Look, I have only a short allotment of time on this mortal coil, and I don’t intend to waste it. There are an infinite number of things that are better ways to spend my time than perusing cheesy money grubs dreamed up by third-tier DC pro-cons who got NRCC gigs because they couldn’t cut it drafting white papers for some think tank with “Liberty” or “Eagles” in its name. These activities include playing lint soccer, forming that 2 Live Crew cover band Larry O’Connor and I have long been talking about, and mocking the erotically dysfunctional losers who write for the Bulwark blog.
Okay, the last one is worthy of my time, but the point is that these texts are wasting not just my time but the time of everyone whose cell number ever got snorted up into a robocall list. And people are mad about it. I know. I talk to them. Unlike the campaign pros, who clearly don’t.
“Why did you let your 500% Trump House Patriot match expire AGAIN?” it asked, and the answer is because the NRCC sucks and I don’t trust it. Nor should I. I took a look at the July 2020 FEC filing and I’m just a simple LA trial lawyer who don’t cotton much to fancy book learnin’ n’ figurin’, but it looks to me like donor contributions were $9,860,070.20 yet NRCC expenses were $6,214,108.77. It seems to mean that better than six bucks out of ten that we give are going…down the toilet. Now, perhaps that’s not a correct analysis, but if I’m wrong about the insane overhead then the NRCC communications shop could have communicated that to the base instead of flaccidly attempting to fly top cover for the scam when conservatives called it out on Twitter.
Also, I’m a bit confused about the “500% Trump House Patriot match.” Why not just toss that 500% matching amount into the pot without my donation? After all, I’m sure that match is a real thing that really exists for real.
Here’s some real talk. These needy, obnoxious texts are ticking off the base. I bet they get some money, but they also leave a ton on the table. Of course, the DC swells have no idea since they are DC swells, but here in America, we’re all done with them. And it’s not merely because we resent transparent grifts designed to separate old people from their Social Security cash, though that is unacceptable (I recall trashing Dems for this same idiocy in prior cycles). It’s because this so clearly demonstrates the utter contempt the establishment has for the base that is the establishment’s whole purpose for being.
Now, after I made clear my displeasure on Twitter, the NRCC’s communications shop deployed not to win the election, not to learn how it could be more effective, but to shut me up, along with the hundreds of outraged conservatives who joined in. I was told that I was putting the whole campaign to retake the House at risk, as if an operation vulnerable to one guy on Twitter ought to be the cornerstone of our offensive. And I was warned that I should lay off the NRCC because it has collected only half the dough the Democrats’ congressional committee has, as if this candid admission of failure doesn’t demonstrate the need for a thorough house cleaning instead of a doubling down. The argument was pretty much, “We’re doing terribly – stop messing it up, man!”
And not surprisingly, this strategy went poorly for them and they went radio silent after their humiliation, but the damage was done. The NRCC has zero cred, and it’s a result of its track record of failure, its 60% overhead, and its innovative strategy of trying to cut the heads off of its critics rather than pull its own head out of where it’s wedged.
The establishment needs to understand and accept that the fat days of skimming the cream off, What is at stake is not the GOP spending a few years in the wilderness; the other party wants to destroy our country and turn us into serfs. This is serious, and we need serious people with a serious strategy, not this amateur hour clusterfark.
The NRCC is dead to us unless and until we see some heads on pikes and until we see that the vast majority of the money we donate is going to candidates, not to parasites. And all the other acronym groups and PACs better wake up too. They are next.
We’re done with funny business as usual. We have less than 100 days until election day. NRCC, get squared away or get bent.
But the answer is not for us to walk away from supporting congressional candidates. Far from it. No, since the institutions have failed us, we need to do it ourselves – again. The answer is to give directly, so the money can’t disappear into the Hugo Boss suit pocket of some nominally-Republican hustler. This is especially true if you are like me and trapped in a solid blue district – my congressman is Ted Lieu. Pick a winner somewhere else and send him/her your dough.
Want some ideas? There’s new Rep. Mike Garcia, who beat "throuple" girl Katie Hill in that special election in California-25. How about Army infantry vet Sean Parnell running against a Pelosi puppet in Pennsylvania-17? Or consider Jim Bognet, taking on a slick fake blue dog in Pennsylvania-08.
The establishment is simply not making it happen. And worse, when we point that out, it gets triggered like a SJW who sees a flag. So we need to do it ourselves. That’s how we elected Donald Trump last time, and that’s how we need to take back the House.
NRC is run by Romney’s Niece.
that is Soros’ Romney. Got it?
[“ These numb-skulled messages have my phone lighting up like a molly dealer’s at Freaknik. Look, I have only a short allotment of time on this mortal coil, and I don’t intend to waste it. There are an infinite number of things that are better ways to spend my time than perusing cheesy money grubs dreamed up by third-tier DC pro-cons who got NRCC gigs because they couldn’t cut it drafting white papers for some think tank with “Liberty” or “Eagles” in its name. These activities include playing lint soccer, ...”]
Lost it at “lint soccer”. It’s 4am and my sleep is ruined. Hope my laughter didnt disturbed the wife.
I was going to mention Willards niece but you beat me to it. The Republicans couldn’t even win a fixed game.
They are truly the STUPID PARTY.
Makes me wonder if they’re in cahoots with the demorat party for real??
NRCC is anti-conservative, so they don’t want no stinking conservatives. Been plain as day for a long time.
Time for a new party.
Establishment Republicans want increased illegal immigration to lower labor costs in low end jobs and food processing,increased labor visas for tech,medical,and financial jobs,and either ship manufacturing to cheaper countries or failing that import cheap foreign labor for manufacturing. Establishment Republicans also want a nationalized health care system to off load health care costs unto the Federal government which will also reduce labor costs. I haven’t even mentioned moving to a vassal relationship with China both economically and militarily. Donald Trump is a great obstacle to that so some will oppose him as “principled conservatives” the rest will keep quite but when needed by the President let him stand alone. Here in Ohio we know all about our “friends” the Republicans Jim Jordan being excepted of course.
bkmrk
Thank you, Kaslin.
You’re welcome.
The GOP is useless....if Trump wins he needs. to start a real Trump wing and maybe change the name of the party at the federal level....
This group called me for donations. I told them I am contributing to Trump but not the RNC Senate initiative. I told them that since they gave up on my state a long time ago (we are stuck with Durbin and Duckworth), and since they will not denounce Romney and other RINO NeverTrumpers, they are not worthy of my donation. After some back and forth, they said they understood my position and hung up.
I’m getting non-stop texts from these weasels also. Not giving to elitist creeps who have betrayed me repeatedly in the past. Will give some to Trump directly soon.
Bush League Republicans only want Cheap Labor Express stooges who are committed to open borders/amnesty.
Excellent.
“Makes me wonder if they’re in cahoots with the demorat party for real??”
Consider this hypothesis: Some Republicans, particularly those in leadership positions, are just as compromised and owned as many (all?) of their Democrat counterparts. How many of them on both sides of a very narrow “aisle” are worried about the outcome of some of the ongoing investigations? Epstein/Maxwell comes to mind...
That would include the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
To begin with, the NRCC is the campaign committee of US House Republicans. It is not a subordinate unit of the RNC but is relatively independent and is answerable not to the RNC Chairman but to the House Republican leadership and members.
Like most laypeople, the author seems to think that candidate quality as a conservative is the soundest basis for backing a candidate. Political professionals know better. There are a relative handful of winnable swing US House districts. Other things being equal, those districts tend to elect candidates who are or are willing to pose as moderate and not too partisan.
That is why the NRCC and its Democratic equivalent try to recruit such ideologically disappointing candidates in crucial swing districts. They want to win and keep a majority in the House.
As for the NRCC's expenses, the details stated in their federal reports show that their money mostly goes to employees and legal and media costs -- the destination for most campaign cash. By buying in bulk and doing so with care, the NRCC provides campaign services for its candidates -- and usually with better quality than most candidates would get on their own.
For the past 20 plus years, I have tried to make sure that my money goes to the candidate and not some skimmer, that keeps 90% and sends 10% to the candidate.
Not to defend ANYTHING having to do with the indefensible Republican Party apparatus, but you're mixing up two organizations.
Romney's niece runs the RNC, the Republican National Committee. Schlichter's piece is about the NRCC, which is the National Republican Congressional Committee, specifically set up to elect Republicans to Congress (and doing a piss-poor job, as usual.) So NRC = the national party; the NRCC focuses on the House.
Yes, both are horrible.
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