Of course, this does not mean conservatives should withhold their money from all elections. There are alternatives. They can contribute to individual candidates. They can contribute to a variety of PACs that support conservative candidates. They can contribute to the Senate Conservatives Fund, or, of course, the Club for Growth, without which Hoffman would have possibly never gathered any real momentum.
But enough with the blind contributions to the Republican Party, and with the blind voting for establishment-backed candidates. That the establishment attempts to save face every time it loses, at it is doing now by supporting Hoffman two days before the election, should not blind anyone from the fact that only hours ago, it was throwing money at a genuine leftist while trashing Hoffman, and that in the coming months, it will be supporting a decidedly non-conservative Charlie Crist over a perfectly conservative and perfectly electable Marco Rubio in the Florida Republican Senate primary.
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Never game them any in the first place.
BadgerHawk on November 3, 2009 at 7:18 PM
An utterly stupid thing for the GOP to do, except for people IN the GOP who are placing “personal relationships” over the issues.
Lourdes on November 3, 2009 at 7:19 PM
So what’s the alternative, other than Ross Perot?
orfannkyl on November 3, 2009 at 7:20 PM
Michele got my cash; Steele won’t see a dime.
Bishop on November 3, 2009 at 7:20 PM
After browsing around http://www.opensecrets.org
I’ll never send a dime to any party or any politician ever again.
I pay taxes. That’s all the government will ever get from me. They have to steal my money to get it. I will never volunteer money again. Ever.
bridgetown on November 3, 2009 at 7:22 PM
Give your money to the most conservative candidate, regardless of party.
mizzoujgrad on November 3, 2009 at 7:22 PM
I’m having a grand old time sending those surveys and junk from the RNC and all the rest of the GOP beggers back to them with notes about how they’re screwing up.
I mailed 3 back yesterday. I’m also doing the same thing with all that AARP crap I get in the mail.
Let them pay for their insanity.
Knucklehead on November 3, 2009 at 7:22 PM
Palin gets my money; Palin gets my loyalty!
Why?
“We can’t spare this woman. She fights!”
victor82 on November 3, 2009 at 7:22 PM
What’s amazing is that despite the number of conservatives who have wised up and started donating directly to conservative candidates and PACs, the RNC is still beating the DNC in fundraising.
joe_doufu on November 3, 2009 at 7:23 PM
As a lifelong Democrats, I have vowed not to contribute one more dime to Democrat party. Enough with the blind contributions to them and with the blind voting for establishment-backed candidates. That the establishment attempts to save face every time it loses, at it is doing now by supporting Owens two days before the election, should not blind anyone from the fact that only hours ago, it was endorsing the Republican candidate, and that in the coming months, it will be supporting a decidedly non-liberals over perfectly good liberals.
I’ve had enough!
JohnJ on November 3, 2009 at 7:25 PM
Duh!
califcon on November 3, 2009 at 7:26 PM
I like returning the ‘junk mail’ I get from RNC marked return to sender.
OmahaConservative on November 3, 2009 at 7:35 PM
Ditto that. I’m not shredding it any longer. I’m writing letters. Epistles, even. Other times, it’s something simple such as: “Scozzafava? Really????” But it all gets sent back–in that handy-dandy pre-paid envelope.
hoosiermama on November 3, 2009 at 7:38 PM
Fun, isn’t it????? I’m going to be sending some Monopoly money with my next batch.
Knucklehead on November 3, 2009 at 7:45 PM
That’s right. Never fall in line for those phonies again. The RINOs will pull their chameleon act to get elected, then burn us again — if we’re not cinders by then.
Feedie on November 3, 2009 at 7:50 PM
OOOOOOH. Great idea! LOL
hoosiermama on November 3, 2009 at 8:09 PM
Defunding the left includes defunding the RNC.
Valiant on November 3, 2009 at 8:36 PM
That’s not punishment. If you really want to make your point just glue any postage paid responses to a brick, then send it back. Works every time! Mwahahaha!
abobo on November 3, 2009 at 8:56 PM
Like the man said in the article, give directly to a candidate or to a PAC that supports issues important to you – and when the RNC calls, TELL them exactly how much money they’re not going to get from you until they quit FRUMing it away.
peski on November 3, 2009 at 9:05 PM
Some poor hired hand telemarketer is going to have a bad night next time they call me for money.
ncborn on November 3, 2009 at 9:07 PM
Send your money to the individual conservative candidates. Not one dime to the RNC.
arizona on November 3, 2009 at 9:12 PM
Enough!! I call for a reign of donation terrorism! Give a $1 donation to every dem and rino in your city/county/state/ or key contests. Then send ‘em campaign-paid cinder blocks when they ask for more. Organize groups to do this in key states and you can probably devastate a few campaigns with mail expenses alone. WOLVERINES!!!
abobo on November 3, 2009 at 9:29 PM
Give to individual candidates or Conservative organizations such as the Club for Growth. Did you not read the article?
Club for Growth FTW!
Daemonocracy on November 3, 2009 at 9:53 PM
Amen. Washington is drunk from money and power. Time for them to sober up.
We need to have the fight in 2010, so the party can be healed in time for 2012. Voters will support conservatives if they have a conservative to vote for. I’m sick of seeing the GOP pre-empt success. They’ll never get another dime from me as long as they’re spending money to beat real conservatives in primaries.
hawksruleva on November 3, 2009 at 11:12 PM
I don’t contribute to the GOP or NRCC.
I contribute to individual candidates. I don’t trust the RNC to spend my money better than me any more than I do the government.
wildcat84 on November 3, 2009 at 11:32 PM
The GOP can get bent. Go beg for bennies for your districts from your Democrat golf buddies, quislings.
spmat on November 4, 2009 at 12:56 AM
What everybody else said. I now have two of those RNC “surveys” in my inbox. I’ve got to add Scuzzyfava to the the missive that will be appended to each such survey. Maybe they read them, maybe they don’t, but they don’t get my money — local(and out-of-state) conservatives get my money to win both primaries and elections. This goat-rope with Scuzzy, wasting $900k of donations to support the next Lincoln Chaffee was beyond reprehensible. Conservatives (and folks who have more than a double-digit IQ) need to take back leadership of the RNC.
My letter as it stands now (I’ll add Scuzzy tomorrow):
To: NRSC
You talk a good game in these surveys and say all the right things that a conservative supporter of federalism would whole-heartedly support. But it comes across as all talk and just begging for money. Money that will be used to support the likes of John McCain, whose idea of ending illegal immigration is to declare them all legal. Money that supports Olympia Snow who just voted for the most egregious abrogation of constitutional authority in recent history by agreeing with the takeover of 1/6 of the private sector by the government. Money that will be used to support liberal (I’m sorry – moderate) Republicans in the Pennsylvania and Florida primaries instead of the solid, electable real conservative candidates that could win with the correct support. The only reason you aren’t supporting Specter in the Pennsylvania race is because he switched sides and I’m not convinced that there aren’t some in the NRSC trying to figure out how to continue to fund him despite that. Money that will support Lindsay Graham, another Senator more concerned with getting along with the other side of the aisle rather than standing for the oath he took to preserve and uphold the Constitution of the United States.
Until the NRSC can show by its actions that it knows what conservatism and support of our federal republic really means, I will vote for Republican candidates who are conservative, I will support local conservatives financially but individually, but I will not send a dime to the RNC.
AZfederalist on November 4, 2009 at 1:00 AM
Did you attach a box of rocks? That’s what my brother did with ACLU solicitations.
Axeman on November 4, 2009 at 1:34 AM
WORD to that that.
angryed on November 4, 2009 at 7:37 AM