You’re missing the entire point.

When the party regains its sanity and starts sticking to its principles again, I might reconsider making contributions. Until then, I will continue to make contributions directly to conservative candidates. Perhaps, if more Republicans took a similar tact, the party might get the message and start listening to the average Joe again. Sorry, I lost my mind for a moment.

Time for ALL NEW leadership in the party…I’m sick of those in power, the ‘do you know who I am’ crowd, believing they can IGNORE the will of We the People!!!!

One of these days they have to wake up and accept the fact that their grand plans are NOT good for America!!!

GET BACK TO THE CONSTITUTION!!!! And LISTEN to We The PEOPLE!!!!!!!

Thus far it has worked well. I contributed to Marco Rubio, our next US Senator andCol. Allen West, the next congressman in my district; both won, no thanks to the RNC nohelp from the Florida Republican Committee. Next election I’ll be backing a genuine conservative to defeat our Democrat-socialist senator, Bill “ultra-liberal in Washington, “moderate” in Florida” Nelson. If the GOP National organization has the good grace to stay out of our primary, I might consider contributing once more.

I’m a “movement conservative.” That is CONSERVATIVE first and Republican a distant second. Come to think of it, I might well contribute to GOP primary candidates in other states; for whoever is runing against Lindsay Graham in South Carolina, Olympia Snowe of Maine, or Richard Lugar on Indianna. Conservatives can no longer tolerate the politics as usual “go along to get along” type of professional politicians.

Who knows? Once the GOP gets rid of Michael Steele as chariman and nominates a genuine principled conservative for president (Forget Massachussetts “Romney Care” Romney or tax hungry Huckabee!) I might just start aiding the Republican establishment.

But in the meantime, I plan to run for Republican precinct committeeman. We have to take over the county, state, AND national committees. THEN the Republican party can return to it’s principles and continue to WIN.

It’s a conservative thing.

So it seems likely a new Chairman will be elected in January, along with all the other leadership positions. Remember, the NRSC is not a party organization, or a group of party activists, it is solely the creation of the Senate Republican Caucus, and its job is above all protecting the members of the caucus, including from primary challenges.

Knowing that is their mission – incumbent protection first, expanding their numbers second – you may feel free to donate or refrain from doing so. But it’s not really reasonable to criticize them for doing what they set out to do, or for seeking the strongest nominees. They made a bad mistake in recruiting Charlie Crist, but their choices in Nevada and Colorado and Delaware could scarcely have done worse than the actual nominees.

Get used to it, no matter who is Chairman. The NRSC will defend its incumbents.

Not really sure how you call that a win.

See: Dan Coats vs. Marlin Stutzman. Dan Coats would never have been in the primary, if he hadn’t been recruited – from out of state, no less – by the NRSC. The locals already had two candidates vying for that nomination; the NRSC got involved, and used their financial resources – and the establishment candidate’s name recognition – to defeat two much better, much more conservative candidates.

I’m happy Coats defeated Ellsworth; don’t get me wrong. But at the same time: whomever won the Republican primary was going to win that Senate seat, regardless.

I think the whiny GOP insiders just wanted lobbying jobs with the increased clout that a GOP controlled Senate would bring rather than promoting conservativism.

Meanwhile, Red State’s ideal nominees for Senate seem to be candidates like Christine O’Donnell (a professional gadlfy with questionable finances and little record of accomplishment) and Sharon Angle (a candidate who fumbled away a chance to defeat the Senate leader in the state with the highest unemployment rate and highest foreclosure rate in the nation).

Its been almost a week since the election – why no threads on how to defeat Democrat Senators in Virginia, Michigan, Ohio, North Dakota, Missouri, Florida, or Montana. Seems like Red State has so lost focus on the big picture that the only thing to do here is trash the “establishment” and find out which Republicans we should take out.

Let the party committees recruit candidates (at least in some cases) – if the locals don’t like ‘em, there’s a simple solution: get somebody to run against them, and then don’t vote for the “recruited” candidate in the Primary.