2. …conservatives sure love to hate the GOP. It’s a complicated relationship.

3. No cite, just general principle. When someone donates to the RNC there is an understanding that the funds should support the Republican party. It is reasonable that there might be a prohibition either by regulation or party rule against the use of those funds to support a candidate from another party in a race where there is a lawfully selected Republican candidate. Vocal opposition by conservatives to the RNC, NRCC, and NRSC over the past few cycles had not dissuaded remaining donors who continue to trust the party. Now, the trust of even these donors is failing. Exactly what conservatives want to happen.

4. You contend that the RNC can fill the buses and phone banks. My point is they need conservative volunteers to do that. Unless of course they start handing out street money or form press gangs, the RNC won’t be filling any buses because conservatives do not want to get on them.

I’m not an expert in phone banks, and maybe the individual campaign had more help than they needed, =but it doesn’t make sense to me that the national organization isn’t all in for their own team.

4. The victories will have been achieved despite the RNC’s efforts, why should it get credit?

RNC will claim the credit internally (in R/C crowds.) Hmm …. they need to replenish the US$900K, a sunk cost and they’ve learned that extremist conservatives are generous in giving to conservatives llike Doug.

But that’s internal intelligence.

They external memo is different. RNC and NRCC welcomes moderates to their party.

[And why not? They are also moderates. The won't expel themselves from their own party, will they?]

Back to calling all my friends in VA and NJ.

2. So without conservatives there is no GOP but…

3. Got a cite for that statement?

4. Well, yes there is. They could have the phone banks filled and filling busses with volunteers. The fact that there are critical elections in NY, NJ, VA, and an important one in CA and there are tumbleweeds blowing under the McCain posters in the RNC phonebanks tells you all you need to know about that organization.

I am not so much bothered or suprised by this. I am bothered that folks are not recognizing this as a consequence of conservative attacks against the RNC because idle phones are undesirable.

2. I do not believe that “moderatism” leads to activists. The activists in the GOP are conservatives.

3. Well I’m not sure it is even legal for a GOP organization to give cash to a different party, at least before Dede dropped out. The mistake was giving resources to a bad candidate, not giving the resources to the wrong candidate.

4. I am not saying that the RNC should get credit for anything. My point is that there is nothing the RNC can do at this point that will satisfy many critics. The strongest evidence of this are the vocal calls for leadership changes before the election even takes place.

If this is true, then we have bigger problems at the RNC than we can possibly imagine.