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Put up or shut up

It does little good to complain about the NRSC endorsing Charlie Crist, unless you are willing to actually help Marco Rubio

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  May 22nd, 2009 at 11:52 AM  | 

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So are you as hacked off as I am about the NRSC’s Crist endorsement?

Putting it directly, you don’t have any room to complain unless you are willing to open your wallet for Marco Rubio. Even $10.00.

Here’s the deal: the NRSC is probably not going to spend a penny on Crist in the primary. Their endorsement, I think, has much more to do with them choking off money for Marco Rubio.

They say the voters of Florida will not be persuaded one way or the other by the NRSC endorsement. They are right.

But the donors will be. The NRSC endorsement has everything to do with making Rubio not viable by cutting off his access to money.

The only way to really combat the endorsement is to flood Marco Rubio with contributions to make him viable.

If you look at the internals of the polling out there instead of just the superficial polling showing Crist with 54% and Rubio with 18%, you will find that Crist’s voters are not very loyal. His support is a mile wide, but an inch deep.

Rubio, on the other hand, certainly has a long way to go in getting voters on his side, but his base of voters are very loyal.

Likewise, while Crist might be over 50% in polling, if you drill down to just the Republican base, he’s barely hanging on to 50% strength.

So give what you can to Rubio. If you are not willing to give Marco Rubio at least $10.00, you really have no ground to complain about the NRSC’s endorsement of Crist.

Put up or shut up.

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  • Mr_Ed

    I just gave $370 to TeamRubio. This is the same amount I gave the NRSC a few months ago, the first contribution I’ve ever made to the NRSC (perhaps the last for a long time??).

    The first donation represented $10 for each senator who voted against TARP. I figure Rubio should get the same amount since NRSC has turned its back against him.

  • tommer

    Money’s tight but this is too important!! I just sent what I can to Marco. Thanks for the wake-up call.

  • antisocial

    When I did submit the transaction the page just hung (via my amex card)… and still clocking http://marcorubio.com/donate.php ….

    Should I see a confirmation page? I will wait a cpl of days to see if the transaction posts to my account. If it doesn’t I will try again next week.

    I can’t vote for him since I am stuck in NY but I will definitely support via money.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    First federal donation I’ve given.

    And yeah the page is hanging but I got an email confirmation of my donation.

  • Aaron Gardner

    By the way that is an awesome donation page very slick and I like the share this integration after the donation. The MRSC and Sen. Cornyn could have learned alot from Rubio.

    It will be ironic when Rudio wins…if he does maybe he should challenge Cornyn as leader of the NRSC…;^)

  • Tanggor

    Tried to do this. But had to abort, based on the agreement with the comment section.

    As it happens, I currently am a federal contractor, working inside the Beltway. A first for me – I’ve always been in the private sector.

    Does this mean he can’t take my money??

    Does anyone with more experience in this have advice on my limitations? I WANT to give some money.

    Does my employment status censor my ability to donate? If so, how far does that limitation extend?

    Argh, again.

  • AceInTX
  • Aaron Gardner

    at least that is my hope. Although i had not problem at all with it.

  • AceInTX
  • AceInTX

    It will be ironic when Rudio wins?if he does maybe he should challenge Cornyn as leader of the NRSC?;^)

  • AceInTX

    Talk to John McCain…maybe he can give you advice on which of your rights he failed to destroy when he wrote the campaign finance bill!

  • Aaron Gardner

    the “MRSC” as in moderate republican senatorial committee. …;^)

  • Tanggor

    yeah, it was hard to support that bugger a few months back. But I did.

    No other choices, by then.

    Am I really blocked here? There are quite a number of real conservative Republicans I want to give cash to this cycle.

    Now that I’ve finally arranged my financial house to be able to do so, I come across this. It’s frustrating.

  • ColdWarrior

    Of course, send money to Mario.

    Then fax to Cornyn at the NRSC either of the following messages:

    I’m a conservative Repubican and I just took steps to become a precinct committeeman and am recruiting all my conservative friends and acquaintances to do the same. NRSC fax number: 1-202-544-3464.

    or

    I’m a conservative Republican and a precinct committeeman and I’m recruiting all my conservative friends and acquaintances to become precinct committeemen.

    and, if you live in Florida, add

    And I’ve volunteered to help Marco Rubio win the primary election.

    I?ve found the single best way conservatives can change the Party is to become a Republican Party precinct committeeman. Precinct committeemen get to vote for the Party leadership. They get to vote for their legislative district chairman. Their county chairman. They get to select the electors that go to the state convention to vote for the state chairman. Etc. Just a registered Republican? Sorry, you don?t get to vote in the internal party elections.

    When I got to Arizona, I figured, this being known as a somewhat conservative state, all the precinct committeemen slots would be filled and that the Party would have a solid conservative flavor to it. Wrong. As Ayn Rand said, ?Check your premise.? Here in Maricopa County, encompassing Phoenix, only one third of the PC slots are filled, with over 4,000 vacancies. And in my legislative district, the same holds true, and over 60 per cent of the precincts have NO precinct committeemen. But we?re working to change this. But since November, we?ve increased the ranks of PCs in the county by over 300 and by over a third in my legislative district. And these numbers are significant, knowing that our CONSERVATIVE county chairman beat the MODERATE candidate by only twenty votes this spring and our CONSERVATIVE state chairman beat the MODERATE candidate by only about the same number of electors at the state convention a few weeks later. Want more conservative Party leadership? Then vote for it. But you?ve got to be a precinct committeeman. It?s a numbers game. And you?ve got to be in the ball game to play.

    And as a precinct committeeman, you?ll get more opportunity to size up the Republicans running in the primary elections. And they?ll want to know whether you?ll support them. Because they know you may have great influence over the other voters in your precinct. And you?ll be helping to get out the vote, especially in the primary elections, which traditionally have very light turnout. Want more conservative candidates to win primary elections? Then become a precinct committeeman and help make it happen where the rubber meets the road, so to speak.

    In what shape is the Republican Party where you live? Do you know?

    Here?s some more info about becoming a PC that?s been posted here at Redstate by Martin Knight and Erick Erickson.

    http://www.redstate.com/martin_a_knight/2009/05/05/the-committeeman-project/

    Here?s what Erick posted:

    http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/04/30/at-play-in-the-field-of-tea-parties/

    So, I sound like a broken record. I go to ?target rich environments? where conservatives gather, physically and virtually, and attempt to recruit PCs. Tea parties. Gun shows and gun stores. NRA conventions. Redstate. Resistnet.com. Etc.

    I am only one. But I am a Republican Party Precinct Committeeman.

    Thank you.

  • AceInTX

  • antisocial

    if it doesn’t go through I will try next week.

    I think Erick should do this at least once every month until election. That will serve as a reminder at least for regulars. Or even email notifications to redstate members.

    We need to back up conservative candidates as much as we can.

  • AceInTX

    of course your right to assembly and to petition your government be damned!

  • Diogenes314

    As long as he’s not a Democrat. I’m not as opposed to Crist as most here, and don’t know enough about Rubio to care. I’m much more interested in sending Barbara Bouncer to a well deserved place on the ashheap of history. That being said…

    I’m in. Just because (like I’ve said before repeatedly) I don’t believe in the NSRC endorsing candidates in open primaries.

    BTW, the server hung up on me as well, but I got a confirmation email so it went through.

  • grumpy_old_soldier

    Gave $10…wish I could do more!

  • polocruz

    I’ve previously donated, and in the process of donating more, but it looks like the site is hung up. Hope it’s due to overwhelming response!!!

    …a proud Florida conservative!

  • AceInTX

    The way it is here…many precincts have a permanent chair but all you have to do to become a delegate at the precinct level is to show up at the convention at your polling place right after the polls close. Ive been temporary precinct chair and chaired the precinct convention in two different precincts since 2000. I’ve never run for the permanent position because I know the ladies who are permanent chairs and agree with them down the line.

    As far as what shape our party is in in San Antonio…the district party is fragmented and has been since I moved to Texas and got involved in 2000. The district Party is run by a moderate good ole boy network who were pretty ham handed in 1994 when there we new people coming out to support the party after the Contract with America and the sweeping victories led by conservatives in 1994 and there are at least three different factions that have never gotten back together since.

    This is what kills me about the party apparatus…they say they want support…and they say we’re a big tent…but there is a knee jerk reaction from them when new people come in and threaten their comfortable perks and privileges!

  • Diogenes314

    Or did you self abort? As far as I know, it is legal for you to donate, they just need it on record.

    I may be wrong though.

  • eburke

    Rubio’s farewell speech. And now I’m even more p**sed off then I was before. What in the world is Cornyn smoking? Has he ever even talked to Rubio? Heard him speak?

    For the love of God!! Extemperaneous….from the heart…unaplogetic….unafraid to express himself no matter how ‘un-PC’ the comments…eloquent…passionate. And when he finished talking about the love and goodness of God – did ya catch the standing ovation–FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE!!

    This whole NSRC debacle is just unbelievable. I have over 100 politically active friends in my address book — it’ll take a while (10 at a time) but they’re all about to get an email from me.

    Thanks for all you’re doing Erick. Grab the pitchforks, folks!

  • E Pluribus Unum

    Because at one time, Jim Jeffords and Arlen Specter accepted tons of money from Republican donors who thought they were helping send a Republican to DC.

    Specter and Chafee accepted all the benefits of being Republicans, but when it counted, they were Democrats.

    Charlie Crist is no better than any of those 3, and it cannot be assumed he will back a single GOP filibuster or any other procedure when he is desperately needed.

    The other guy is such a contrast that I won’t even go into it here, so as not to sully his name by speaking of it in the same comment as Specter, Chafee, Jeffords, and Crist.

  • eburke

    What tees me off is these guys will suck at the teat of the Party when it suits their fancy and they need the smack, but feel free to stab it in the back at their whim (which the “Blue Dog Dems *rarely* do). If you’re gonna take the Party’s money, then you *owe* it to them to be there when they need you on the ‘biggies’ (ya know, like Marxist, pork-riddled stimulus packages). If you don’t think you’re *constituents* can handle that, then at least be intellectually honest enough to not take the money of those you farcically deign to support.

    But *that* would presuppose the possession of principles.

  • Diogenes314

    How do you know this? And actually, I’ve said before that I could care less where a candidate stands on certain issues, as long as he is loyal when it counts.

  • AceInTX

    Let’s bury Crist, Cornyn, McConnel and the rest of the good ole boy network with donations to Rubio from the base

  • AceInTX

    Hey man…I miss you on the member diaries side of things cause we can’t comment to you on Red Hot…come on back to us commoners would ya?!

  • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

    We will only get their attention and have much of any real sway when they see it is costing them money…. So if you, or anyone you know gives to the NRSC (let them know), give them JUST ONE THIN DIME…. Once you get an email confirmation (or if you really want to annoy them SEND AN ACTUAL CHECK) send a note with that by physical mail to the NSRC letting them know why you have DROPPED your normal donation…. If you have never given to NRSC, you can still do the same, but it won’t hold as much sway but will bolster and begin to give weight to the DIMES being sent (Karina suggested elsewhere sending an actual Dime painted Red, but we’re not supposed to send money through the mail ;-) ) if they start getting all the protest votes.

    It is more of a PAIN to them to deal with a bunch of DIME donations than a benefit…. Ever seen the Campaign Finance documents that have to be maintained? I have, for a candidate anyway and would imagine they are as bad or worse for a committee like this (Thank you Mr. McLame)….. That is why it would be clearly recognized for its protest value…. They may just spend the money to send you back your microscopic donation, which would (of course) then cost them postage.

    from elsewhere I first put this forth

    I agree with DON?T FUND THEM ?. MUCH??

    You get more with withholding some, but providing, perhaps only a $1 (Deli-story) as a protest donation insisting WE still intend to work STRONGLY and as forcefully as possible within the Party given any avenues possible.

    The Deli-story provides the best example of how/why this would be the BETTER STRATEGY, imo?.

  • ColdWarrior

    Always feels good to bypass the NRSC and give directly to a good conservative Republican primary candidate.

    Thank you.

  • JadedByPolitics

    to scream about the NRSC RIGHT :-)

  • AceInTX

    Campaigned for and stood at Obama’s right hand as he signed the stimulus bill that wasn’t a stimulus bill, he nominated a Democrat judge to the Florida Supreme Court and in his own words he said he’d emulate Arlen Specter…

    There’s no debate about his positions…though he’s making statements now to give himself cover since we’ve all pounced on him…but he can’t change history!

  • http://impudent.blognation.us/blog kyle8

    Isn’t the burden of proof on him after all the left turns he has taken?

    I don’t trust snakes, car salesmen, TV preachers, and Rinos.

  • AceInTX
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  • Lammo

    and the last time NRSC called I told them no more unitl they cut Specter, Snowe and Collins loose (this was before Specter officially defected),

  • Vegas_Rick

    And look how well that’s worked out.

  • AceInTX

    If you’re conservative and have the money in the bank…I challenge you to give the maximum allowable donation to his campaign as a message to the NRSC and the Party!

  • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

    that one of the REASONINGS (been in my 12 points since we started all this) was that Crist would NOT really need the financial help…..

    Crist/Rubio
    I’m not going to repeat the same things discussed (but as I vowed to maintain a balance and show how I can understand/appreciate both sides’ points) on a daily basis but provide the links (I decided to now keep handy since the Crist/Rubio thing just isn’t going to go away and I frankly think some of it is being distorted daily) – take a look and decide for yourself…. It’s all about returning to Majority status STRATEGY….

    Crist/Rubio 12pts – Crist/Rubio 12 points [with links] (since it has some links, I’m not going to try and recreate it all with cut/paste)

    Crist & taxes – Crist and taxes [includes press-links]

    sitting out (or threats to sit out) elections banter – in depth Sit-It-Out discussion

    Deli-story ;-) – Deli-story

    ZERO-strategy – ZERO-strategy

    Red-Dogs – Red-Dogs, RINOs, CINOs, DINOs, PLINOs, and Blue-Dogs, oh my… The Political Zoo – what/who are they?

    BLUE-ism – BLUE-ism

    Bi-Partisanship is really Democrats joining with Republicans, but it goes on as the usual MSM biased spin – again, Bi-Partisanship has really been Democrats joining with Republicans (here) and here

    Primary McLame – going at McCain in a Primary, finally

    using Primaries to build up future candidates – using Primaries to build up future candidates

  • http://www.erickerickson.org Erick Erickson

    n/t

  • http://cib4me.blogspot.com mrdadx6

    but instead was just going to talk the situation up among my friends? Is it okay if I talk about how Rubio is the better bet and the NRSC is a bunch of dogs who take advantage of Social Conservatives and expect us to keep coming back for more?

    or should I shut up too?

  • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

    That is indeed the rub… I think Crist (same issue/concern/complaint with Ridge) will be more RED-DOG than RINO while others insist the later…. That will be a self-fulfilling prophecy if he sees NO Conservative willing to talk/work with him, it just drives him further (if we concede some on this point) to those WE WANT HIM TO NOT LISTEN TO.

    Honey and Vinegar poison thing….

    As for Taxes: Crist and taxes [includes press-links]

    As for the other Crist/Rubio 12 points [with links]

  • E Pluribus Unum

    but I’ll drop in more on the diaries, since you brought it up

  • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

    glad to see you seem to concur on the merit/point of this. It takes more than just posting comments at RS, which they are probably not bothering to read anyway.

  • JadedByPolitics

    ..

  • Tony_Cruz

    I would, but with a bank account balance of -$42 as a college student..I just can’t afford to give any money right now.

    But I have contacted my family that lives in Florida who are staunch conservatives and asked them to please help Rubio out.

    I got them convinced.

  • AceInTX

    Send them nothing and they don’t even know you exist and won’t give a fart in a wind storm what you say or think…

    send them $.10 when it probably costs them $4 to $6 to process your donation and you accomplish more than giving them nothing because they know who you are…you cost them precious resources…and they know who you are because you’re the one costing them money…In fact…I like the ide so much…I might start sending $.10 every other day or so!

  • Mike gamecock DeVine

    24 cents checks from Japan?

  • JadedByPolitics

    I just got off their mailing list and email list yesterday and I don’t want them to get my information again it isn’t worth the dime :-)

  • Vegas_Rick

    Let’s hope it works.

  • Vegas_Rick
  • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit
  • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

    to repeat just a glimpse of the logic again

    You get more with withholding some, but providing, perhaps only a $1 [$1 I originally said, but we have gone to further irking them by making it a Dime] as a protest donation insisting WE still intend to work STRONGLY and as forcefully as possible within the Party given any avenues possible.

    This will get attention, where only commenting over and over here at RS will just go on being ignored…. For more, just scroll up to see the full thoughts on this!

  • ctyankee44

    Those of us not intimately familiar with the players and the details of the subject had to Google to determine this was nothing more than archive material.

    This is why the Dems are kicking our asses, every message they send is clear, on point, and asks for $$$ in a uniform manner.

    The Conservatives are lacking several of these key characteristics.

    Come on folks, we can do better!

  • JadedByPolitics

    but we here don’t do the foul language to make our point….use your big people words!

  • http://www.erickerickson.org Erick Erickson

    But then I’m not a lawyer anymore.

  • http://www.erickerickson.org Erick Erickson

    In these tough economic times, some people cannot give money.

    But we all have time and talent we can give in lieu of treasure. Works for me!

  • http://www.the41stvote.org rcov092

    for you to donate. That is, US law. I am sure that it is against the law of Obama and the NRSC – screw them.

  • http://www.the41stvote.org rcov092

    Crist is the kind of whatever that would have:
    voted for the stimulus (his words).
    Believes that Man is causing Global Warming and we need to alter our lifestyle to “fix” (his words) – means he agrees with the MASSIVE GLOBAL WARMING TAX KNOWN AS CAP & TRADE OR CRAP & TAX

    He is also Barack Obama’s favorite “Republican”.

  • http://www.the41stvote.org rcov092

    I get letters for NRSC asking for money. Return the next one you get from them marked “Not One Red Cent Till You Butt out of Florida’s Primary”

    They will have to pay the return postage and they certainly open and read it.

  • http://www.the41stvote.org rcov092

    it is only illegal for Foreign Nationals to contribute to US political campaigns. Of course that never stopped the zerO from taking in excess of 50.0 million from obviously fake donors on pre-paid debit cards originating in the middle east.

    He was lucky enough to be able to blame it on the software they were using. You see they disabled the function in the software that screens for these types of donations. Also, of course, he has not turned this money over to any charity or the FEC. He cannot refund it as the donors do not exist. So you see, do not worry laws mean nothing and in your case it is on your side. Just do NOT make any commercial supporting any candidate by name withing 60 days of an election. That will get you in jail for speaking your mind. An, Grayson will exempt you specifically as qualifying under the “Federal Vacation Act”.

    Although, if we can amend to state that Congress is required to be on vacation 51 weeks a year, I might be in favor of that.

  • braininahat

    Had to go in for the minimum, but I’m a Californian, so I have an excuse.

  • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

    you can just send them the EMPTY ENVELOPE and it costs them…. I no longer do it only because I don’t get any mail from them anymore to begin with (eventually if you never give you land up off the list, but you can cost them in the meantime for mailing to you and the empty envelope return)…. But, the next time you’re out and about and come across any lefty-loon group, take the literature… you can consider getting on their Physical Mail list (not the Email list) and when you get mail that has the Pre-Paid Return Postage envelopes you can just seal the envelope (with nothing in it, nor will it have anything then identifying who it came from – unless they start coding each envelope – unlikely) and drop it in a mailbox at any convenient opportunity.

    In this case, we are correct that the point/purpose is better served if some note is sent back so they get the message – but you don’t/won’t have to even identify yourself if you don’t wish to.

  • AceInTX

    For the record, I suspect it’s the latter because I don’t think you’re an idiot which the former would imply…

    That said…HIS RECORD…not slogans…not petty objections…HIS RECORD pints to him being a1 legged stool conservative. He’s a tax increaser though he promised he wouldn’t increase taxes in his campaign. He’s a big spender though he said he was a fiscal conservative during the campaign. He supports cap and trade. he campaigned for a stimulus package that has no stimulus in it till 4 years from now(Meaning the government won’t distribute the funds till 4 from now not that it will ever stimulate anything but votes for the Democrats) and stood at Obama’s right hand as he signed the bill, he appointed a liberal Democrat judge to the Florida Supreme Court and by his own words he says he;ll be another Arlen Specter.

    There is nothing…NOTHING in hes record that suggests he’d be anything but another vote for the Democrats and a drag on the Republican Party since just like his professed mentor…would do nothing but bad mouth the party and undermine it at every turn! Not only is there nothing in his record that would point to him being anythingbut a drag on the party…his Record suggests he’d be more a detriment to the party than a mere drag!

  • AceInTX

    but it’s a foolish “strategy”!

    Why is it foolish? The strategy starts with the assumption that the party wins by promoting liberal candidates. But there’s a huge problem with that assumption…the evidence going back to the 1950s supports the opposite conclusion.

    Promoting Crist because the party bosses think he can win as a moderate just sows how delusional and out of touch the party leadership has become!

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  • Mike gamecock DeVine

    in your face with logic and truth guy. That is how I was won over to conservatism and the GOP. Knowledge is power.

    That is me bro.

  • AceInTX

    make them spend the additional resources required by McCain Feingold’s record keeping requirements, (how’s that for IRONY) and depositing the dime. To say nothing for what they have to pay the credit card companies or pay pal to collect it in the first place….and make it plain to them why you’re doing it…better yet…send them a check…that way they’d either have to pay to process the contribution or pay to mail it back…if they mail it back…scratch off the date, put the new date on it and send it again!

    I’m not particularly excited about costing our party money but hitting them in the fund raising pocket in such a way would definitely get their attention and if their swamped enough with all the dime contributions, thay’ll dile their crap back in a hurry minmizing the damage we’;d be doing to them anyway!

  • AceInTX

    Maybe we should set up a network of Rubio fundraisers across the country and use Rubio as an example to the rest of the party that we’ll do what needs to be done without them and not be sheep to their idiocy any more!

  • AceInTX

    I would think it’s legal too…the question then would be…”Would anyone participate and pony up enough to pay the tab and give Rubio enough to make the effort worth while…

    Maybe we should set up a network of Rubio fundraisers across the country and use Rubio as an example to the rest of the party that we?ll do what needs to be done without them and not be sheep to their idiocy any more!

    I’d jump on it in San Antonio if others would do it in their cities…I’d need Erick’s expertise in setting it up…what do you think Erick?

  • AceInTX

    make it sting a little…and let up once they’ve learned the point!

  • http://theminorityreportblog.com David Hinz

    that the 20 for NY 20 campaign raised something like $180,000…… and that was what 6 weeks?

  • AceInTX

    if someone would organize the effort I’d and fund the venue I’d set up and host an event or two in San Antonio

  • Mike gamecock DeVine
  • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

    RELAX PEEPS… I’m just messin’ with him :P ;-) lol

    It can and will make its point if done by enough folks… eventually (in 2011) someone should send them a copy of this Diary in case they don’t get it by then. lol

  • ocleverone

    I left my wallet in the car he is driving..yikes! I went to grab my cc and realized no wallet – no credit card – and worse yet, no drivers license.

  • http://www.the41stvote.org rcov092

    it is illegal for Democrats to Contribute to Democrat candidates in the Florida Senatorial Campaigns primary or General.

  • Lammo

    which includes a little bit of all of the above!

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  • JadedByPolitics

    on how this helped him yesterday it would be greatly appreciated….just curious if WE here helped him :-)

  • olsmithie

    Rubio is part of the solution.

    Eric, please keep the reminders for various candidates going.
    (Like you have a lot of spare time, I know, I know…)
    Lack of action for many folks is not because they don’t care, but due to busy lifestyle, “I’ll do it tomorrow”, and tomorrow is forgotten.

    Regards

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  • http://theminorityreportblog.com David Hinz

    as well as my ex-wife’s but don’t tell her….hee hee hee

  • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

    make sure he isn’t having a spending spree on your Card ;-) lol

  • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

    and call McCains office on occassion to remind him that he needs to REPEAL McCain/Feingold anti-Freedom of Campaigns Act…..

  • AceInTX

    IMHO

  • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

    and having someone else in the mix to prepare them for the next run: using Primaries to build up future candidates….. Toomey should, given his last run vs. disreSpecter of course, be on his way but we need to be sure he has momentum going into the General Election and the Primary (campaigning, funds, support, etc) provides that opportunity. As for McLame: going at McCain in a Primary, finally As for Toomey, RedStaters can/should see the Ad that displays here at RS (I think I’ll go find and follow it now, to be honest I have NOT yet checked it out).

  • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

    (that is a click-thru ad so visiting also helps RS) Whether or not you provide info at that site be sure to SCROLL DOWN to the bottom and click-thru to the real SenateConservativesPAC via the “Paid For” tag/link then you can decide to give/donate there rather than to the NRSC.

  • http://theminorityreportblog.com David Hinz

    “I will not put my political future in the hands of the Republican primary voters!” –Snarlin’ Arlen Spectre

    so be it! we’ll put your political future into the hands of the general election voters…

    I say we give to Toomey until we bleed…

  • ocleverone

    Besides we kind of have the goose gander philosophy here. ;)

  • eburke

    is if the faux ‘conservatives’ at the NSRC decide to primary Toomey then I’ll be splitting my dollars. Otherwise I figure that they’ll go ahead and give him support in the general (‘course, the next genius move I can see from those knuckleheads is to give Toomey zero, zip, nada in the general ’cause he’s not ‘electable)

  • AceInTX

    To be honest, I’m on the knife’s edge on that question…hopefully we can do both so the message will be that much louder…but if we have to pick one…which one do you pick?

  • eburke

    made that decision. If Cornyn loses enough skin over the Crist fiasco perhaps it’ll make him think twice about igniting a firestorm in the base again by challenging Toomey.

    I know, I know, I’m not holding my breath either that they’ll actually come to their senses but Mrs. Burke won’t give me enough scratch to fight two wars at the same time :-)