[JohnBovenmyer]

I tell them I'll send my money to the Club for Growth instead. It helps grow the numbers of true conservatives in House and Senate and is a big enough player that RINOs are aware of it. Giving them money the party could have received slaps down the RINOs more than just not giving any. This can work. The House RINOs are much less powerful than in the previous congress after a net loss of a half dozen or so RINOs while we extended the overall GOP majority. They still have power from senority, but they usually can't thwart conservatives as in the past by voting as a block with the Democrats. Even with the President against us conservatives in the House came within a vote of blocking the Medicare drug give away. With the expected overall GOP increases in 2004 and continued strong leadership from DeLay there's a good chance for a conservative dominated House. The Senate RINOs are a bigger problem. I doubt we can reach a conservative majority in '04, but we can at least increase their numbers. Replacing RINOs when possible (i.e. Spector) with conservatives and ridding GOP states of RAT senators is the key. I'm not fond of RINOs but they are better than Daschles. The average RINO can be drug along with us on somewhere between a third and half of our issues, which is superior to the average RAT.

[ImpotentRage]

I will have to remember the Club for Growth.
I have reached the point now that I intend to return every request for money from the Republicans with a letter listing the reasons why I will NOT be donating. With all of the give-aways, expansion of government, continuing open borders and refusal to prosecute illegals, and now Liberia - I could go on and on - I cannot see much difference, if any between the parties. My vote in 2004 is very much undecided.

[DLfromthedesert]

Only problem I have with the Club for Growth is that they support unlimited immigration; which wouldn;t be so horrible if their other goals were in place; ie limited government, but unfortunately, that's not happening.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

I tell them I'll send my money to the Club for Growth instead.

Well put.

[Digger]

I'm not fond of RINOs but they are better than Daschles.

So why are you even considering these two looser parties. They have no consideration for the middle class person. Who is going to pay this defecit, who is going to pay for these prescriptions, who is paying for these foreign adventures placing debt upon dept (and you thought oil prices were going to lessen)Try this site for alternatve energy sources(http://www.phoenixproject.net/index.htm). And if you are interested in the socialist Dem party were nobody pays but only receives.... so where do you benefit? I say nowhere in this "Two-Party Cartel" except paying their misdeeds.