Has anyone noticed the civil war going on in our midst? Not in the country. In the Republican Party. Right-wing pundits have worked the extemists of the Party into a teetering mess, bordering on the brink of terrorism. No tactic is considered off the chart because no candidate is conservative enough.
Then consider the embarrassing foibles of the Republican National Committee, with its donors' money spent curiously in bondage clubs and clothing boutiques, at liquor stores and on power-raves. As a result, the war chest is nearly empty, and the election cycle has barely just begun.
Even if RNC chairperson Michael Steele resigns (as many top Republicans have, ahem, suggested), what gives rank and file conservatives any confidence that their next hire won't be worse, say Liz Cheney or Bozo the Clown?
It all speaks to judgment and character. The GOP has displayed neither and shows no signs of doing so anytime soon.
Neither the daffy RNC nor the crazy Tea Party inspires much in the way of faith, and in those circles, faith equals money. In the minds of conservatives, God is mamman. That's why the money dried up.
The dip in private donations probably won't matter since the Supreme Court has ruled that corporations are actually people, albeit ones dispossessed from - again - judgment and character (to say nothing of a conscience). So the cash will flow in to conservative coffers this summer, and their constituents will be even less served than they were before.
No matter what, political observers expect Republicans to pull in fewer seats than the usual minority resurgence allows in a midterm election. Democrats in November will be facing a roster of broke and tattered candidates following vicious primary races fueled by Tea Party hysteria.
Besides that, they're are saddled with a track record that didn't exist in the hallowed year of Nineteen Hundred and Ninety Four. Americans pretty much understand what was done to them in the first eight years of this millennium. Putting the GOP back in power would surely beget another war, further encroachment upon our civil liberties and a complete re-collapse of the financial system.
That's why not many Democrats, in or out of office, seem overly concerned as the calendar pages turn. The opposition has spent the last year and a half offering and doing absolutely nothing. Imagine these were your employees... Oh, wait; they are. Does anyone really want to support this bunch?
Be my guest (and, unlike the telephone numbers on various RNC begging letters, I swear this is not a porn connection):
https://secure1.gop.com/site/apps/ka/sd/donorcustom.asp?c=ouITL8MRJrE&b=5403197
Go ahead. I'm sure Michael Steele could use another rack of designer clothes, or some more whips and ball-gags, perhaps a few more gallons of booze. Or, most needed of all, a colorful little car to take him and all of his friends to the center ring one more time.
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