No one should give the Party a dime until he is gone.

for my generous commitment to the Party and yet I ONLY gave once. I gave that once because Redstate asked me to because obamacare had just been passed. The money I gave them appears to have went to a 1.00 pin, 44 cent stamp and a TON of letters inside thereby negating a small portion of my donation to take OUT the Democrats for STUPID mailings.

I swore after 2008 to NEVER give to the RNC and the NRCC because they are NOT being run by Conservatives and my mail today reminds me yet again why I do NOT.

Steele has been the BIGGEST disappointment to me personally because I backed him strongly. I will NEVER forgive him the racists comments and look forward to his departure.

Yes, Steele has been a disappointing chairman but the REAL reason the RNC is struggling is because the traditional, values-voting, military-supporting, faith-based, fiscally-minded CONSERVATIVE who usually donates in election cycles is giving instead to Tea Party candidates who they know will fight for their cause instead of be ‘bipartisan’ and sell out to the Democrats.
That is what is truly going on here and it will keep going on until Steele, Cornyn and all those party hacks get the message. We don’t want any more career politicians like Charlie Crist, Jane Norton, Lindsey Graham, John McCain and others of their ilk. We want people to get elected who are going to do what they promise instead of give us lip service. Until you people running the GOP get a clue, don’t expect ONE RED CENT from any of us who used to give to you only to see our work to help you secure a majority in both houses wasted.
Hello brain stem, are you there???? Hello??

From what I’ve heard and read, I think major donors are going to other groups.

There are other factors at play. Is a central party really that necessary anymore?

The Republican platform appeals to groups with conflicting issues. I would personally rather give to a c4 or PAC that is issue-specific. This way pro-life Republicans don’t have to support Northern moderates, and gay rights supporters aren’t always fighting with social conservatives.

With the web, we don’t need a national party telling us who to support. I can find out about local candidates and give to them directly without the RNC getting a cut for additional direct mail letters (and bondage clubs).

Recently they mailed me a certified letter that was nothing more than another fundraising plea. The letter said it was “so important” for them to know that I got it that they sent it by certified mail.

I was just annoyed. I was annoyed that I had to drive to the post office to pick it up. I was annoyed at the extra expense the RNC had incurred. Etc.

I’m still giving limited amounts to the RNC, but I’m focuing more on specific candidates and donating to their campaigns directly.

pursuing a moderating appeasement strategy avoiding red meat stake and potato issues issues that would fire up the base and invite the money rolling in…

instead we mouth the pliant platitudes of the Democrats and their lap dog press allies and wonder why there isn’t money for the RNC to sen out for GOTV efforts!

BRILLIANT!

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson

I have been giving to specific candidates for about three years. That would be about 18 years too late. The GOP does not really represent me and have ticked me off too many times. Hell, I am still a little miffed that the GOP gave Clinton whatever he wanted plus more, and they had the ability to throw him out of office for doing the nasty in the Oval office and chose not to on behalf of the country. Terrific, except that all lead to 9/11.. but that is just my feeling. While Michael Steele’s comments were just the typical gaff, it caused me no concern. On a scale of one to ten on the problems currently in the country, his is about a 5 to me.

OK Everone out there. How many mailings do you get from the RNC, NRCC, and the like including candidates who are not even in your state. I think at minimum I average at least 2 from each and candidates from across the country including surprise surprise, John McCain. That doesn’t count the NRA which is also wearing thin and then the state causes I support.

Top it off with support for too many RINO’s and visits to “adult entertainment” venues, and it’s all getting very old. The RNC and NRCC better begin to focus and appeal to its’ base, the conservatives of the Republican Party or it is only going to get worse.

Financial support is one thing, foolish use of the money I contribute is quite another. The Good Old Boys as I like to call them and the careless spending of now and the immediate past had better STOP.

Steele is hurting the GOP-the 1st rule of RNC chairman is to do no harm—so Steele needs to go

but I wonder how individual candidates are doing, state GOP parties, and county GOP parties.

All I have is first hand anecdotal evidence also, and from the people I talk to, they are willing to give money to individual candidates and the local GOP party, but they say “I’ll donate as long as it doesn’t go to the state or national party”. I don’t know how you can get around that.

I can say our local GOP has more in our coffers than we have had in the previous 10 years. We are ready to support our local candidates and help out higher up as we can as well. I just wonder if others are in the same boat.

Instead they throw the majority of their money away on Democrat candidates who then proceed with their anti-business leftist agendas and their hatred of corporations and the evilll rich as though nothing ever happened.

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that it makes more sense to give to the specific candidates and issues….the RNC has supported too many lame candidates.

DeDe Scozafava.
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Charlie Crist
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and etc.

A. Folks don’t like how their money is being spent.

B. Folks REALLY don’t like having their noses rubbed in it.

and give to individual candidates. There’s plenty to choose from rolling through the front page of RedState on a daily basis.

2008 was almost an entire year like that, when I kept having to ask myself why is McCain’s staff doing campaign work endlessly for the democrats.

Then there was 2006 and 2008 when the national committees worked to toss out the rank and file picks for office and instead tried to get their picked men and women on the ballot. If it wasn’t bad enough that they blatantly ignored the rank and file, they also had about as much success as Kos does backing candidates.

Back then I said never again will I give to the national committees, always straight to the candidate I support. Hopefully if enough of the party candidates get their funding directly from the party members they will rear up on their hind legs and throw the middlemen off.

P.S. I remember many other people on Redstate shaking their head in response to the actions of the nationals it looks like it just took some time and changing conditions for it to finally catch up.

I realize that Obama is out there raking in the dough. However, I noted with interest this quote:

Come on, guys. My theory – which I only have first hand anecdotal knowledge to back up – is that these party donors are leaving the party and going directly to the candidate and grassroots organizations. You know, the ones that are stabbing them in the back every time they turn around.

You conclude that these people are discouraged with the RNC because of the misbehavior of Steele and associates. While I agree with your conclusion that people are abandoning the national party for local activism, I conclude that this is part of a larger paradigm shift away from National politics.

The era of federal activism is over, and a new era of scalable local activism
has emerged. Few in the national Republican party get this.Most American’s think that the biggest threat to liberty is the power of the federal government. They want the power back in their hands locally.

It is important less for this election and more for the 2012. The way the republicans win, and I want them to win, is to embrace the new paradigm. We don’t want someone to go to Washington to change the direction of the tyranny. We want to send them to Washington to end the tyranny.

The common person doesn’t see the difference between a republican administration spending us into oblivion, and a democrat administration spending us into oblivion except in the pace of destruction. The solution is to take the power over domestic issues away from the feds. So they are putting their money where it can do good. Where they can see immediate impact.
All elections are local, it is time for the party to embrace the new paradigm, and build a workable platform for the 2012 election. Or this could be 1860 all over again, only this time, republicans play the part of the whigs.

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I told the RNC that I won’t donate to them because they are spending too much of my money now. I also said that if I was going to give, it would be to the individual politician. Maybe others are doing the same.

I understand that the last budget was filled with more pork barrel spending by the republicans than the democrats. A Tea Party protest sign I made fits right in here and I sent it to him. It says, “If you can’t clean up your own house, why would we hire you to clean up ours?” I suggest that others send similar messages to the RNC.