To recap something Ed Morrissey wrote in 2005, the GOP isn’t getting a dime from me until they clean up their act.
Not. One. Dime. The next time Ken Mehlman sends you a request for money, that’s the message he needs to get back. We ponied up in 2004, and in 2002, and in 2000. The GOP not only has not delivered, its current leadership won’t even try.
… It’s time to send a real message to the Republicans about their priorities and their lack of leadership. This fight has been brewing for months, and it should have already been resolved by now. If they can’t hack it, then we will find — and fund — the leaders who can.
Lately the requests have been coming in by email and by telephone (via invitations to take a “survey”) to donate to the GOP or members thereof.
NO. Ain’t gonna happen. I could be debt free and have an overflowing bank account. I could win the lottery tomorrow. But not one thin dime is going to go to the GOP. It’s not that I’ve suddenly taken a left turn, politically. It’s that – no matter how bad I think the Democrats are – I will not give a dime to keep an open-borders, big government party in power. I gave money to Fred Thompson (a whopping $25 bucks, as I recall) but not a nickel to McCain, although I did grudgingly vote for him.
Pete Sessions, new Chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee sent me a scary picture of Nancy Pelosi and begged,
Friend, a donation of $25, $50 or $100 will help us lay the groundwork to take back the House of Representatives and give power back to the people.
Dick Morris emailed me today on behalf of the Republican National Lawyers Association to let me know that “They desperately need to raise funds as the Minnesota recount comes down to the wire.” He pulled out all the stops, invoking the evil name of Soros to encourage me to break out my checkbook.
Mike Duncan, RNC Chairman, assured me that a “secure online contribution of $1,000, $500, $100, $50 or $25 will go a long way toward helping the RNC provide the support our Republican leaders need to fight the Democrats’ liberal agenda and prepare for the vital 2009-2010 elections.”
If the GOP wants to get back into power, they need to return to promoting conservative values. Not “McCain-Feingold, amnesty for Illegal immigrants, carbon caps, ‘gun show loopholes’ or trillion-dollar Wall Street bailouts.” They won’t get my support until, unless, they do.
