both Allen West, and to former Marine Captain Ilario Pantano in NC-7. Further, I have sent links to their websites to many friends who also have donated. Every conservative running for Congress this fall has the future of this Nation in his or her hands. Local politics isn’t “local” anymore. It’s far too late to think in terms of this or that district. Everyconservative we can elect is needed, and deserves all the help we can afford to give.

What you said.

either Thermopylae or Salamis. Win, or die trying. No matter how long it takes. This country deserves the best, and most we can give.

We have a twp kowskiparty system. Many people are gullible. The Democrats have been the Majority party in the House and Senate since January 2007 yet many people bought the last eight years of Republican rule in 2008 and many buy it today. People have been re-electing 90% of the incumbents for the last twenty years. Think about it. There are 435 members on the House so 10% of that is 44 and the Republicans only need 41 more votes to take control of the House which still leaves over 90% of the incumbents. I doubt if November will be much different especially given the mediocre Republican plan that doesnt contain a promise for a balanced budget and the elimination of Pork. I doubt if November will be much different and I refuse to donate to the GOP when they keep Murkowski on her committtee after her actions.

donating to various individual candidates .especially, Miller, O’Donnell , and Angle.

The Murkowski vote today was shameful; enough is enough.

Absolutely agree, but sometimes the RCCC does do some good… they are throwing in some ad buys down here in NC-07 to help get rid of an entrenched incumbent blue/lap dog.

I applaud all you guys do in that Eisenhower building. You all work 24/7 to elect Republicans

Keep on working hard. The NRCC is a high and noble place

coming out in droves. Much more so than in any other election season. Some of the fields have been crowded. Surely the NRCC, the NRSC and any of the others should have been well aware of that.

They need to stay out of the primaries, unless there are no declared candidates neat the filing deadline. I believe the days of uncontested primaries are over.

not endorse anyone in SC1–

The NRCC did not make a political contribution(PAC) to anyone in SC1.

Not sure where this thought came from.

Why would the NRCC need to recruit in a safe GOP seat like SC1?

I was going to mention SC5 as one of the few places where he sought out a candidate. Chairman John Spratt is a very formiable foe with huge financial resources. Very tough to beat. That’s the type of place where the NRCC needs to recruit.

I suspect-I don’t recall the exact number-that a dozen or so folks ran in the primary for SC1. I suspect any of them would easily win this November.

I think people have the wrong idea of what the NRCC does.

I don’t know what any polls say, but there’s still no way Pelosi gets defeated. Her district doesn’t like her very much, but they are still about 80% D, and even with poor turnout due to apathy or whatever, their numbers are still far too vast to defeat her. True, she’ll be out as Majority Leader, but she’ll still fester in the House. Doubtful she would become Minority Leader, though.

I should add that I don’t think D voter apathy will be that prevalent. They have the Boxer-Fiorina Senate race and the Brown-Whitman governor race to motivate them to show up. Those are both shaping up to be very tight, and both sides will want to whip up (or in the case of the D’s, reincarnate or invent) as many voters for their side as possible.

my search of the FEC data base several months ago the only candidate that I found that received a PAC contribution from either the NRSC or NRCC was Charlie Crist.

Mind I have not contributed this cycle to any of the GOP committees. I send my money direct.

I think there a lot of myths-misconceptions-confusion about what these committees do.

A local guy-that I really like and is Redstate endorsed Stephen Fincher is running in TN8. In summer of 2009-when John Tanner was still running for re-election-Fincher filed against him. When no one gave him a chance he went to every teaparty group-every local civic club-every GOP meeting (not many of those in west TN) and built himself a base of support. He even raised +500K by the end of september 2009. He was not recruited by the NRCC but he made himself a name. The NRCC made him “a top gun” a GOP challenger who had raised a bunch of money and was a great campaigner. He was the only candidate in the primary going against Tanner and really most folks thought Tanner would be a shoo in.

In late 2009 Tanner announces he is retiring. Five guys jump into the GOP primary and everyone calls Fincher the establishment NRCC endorsed candidate. Well Fincher had got a dime from the NRCC. That committee recognized him for being a great fundraiser and a great candidate. No one came to “Frog Jump TN” to recruit him.

So what was meant to be a program to tell PAC’s that Fincher was a great candidate was used as a club to attack him.

So all this talk about endorsing before Primaries is a little deceptive in my opinion.

In two months when we only win 60 years someone here will say “the NRCC should have gone more to quickly identify candidates who had a good chance to win”. Yup and maybe we should know the difference between identifying good candidates and endorsing them.