Punishing the RNC
Interesting story in today's Washington Times, noting that the RNC has fired its entire telephone fundraising staff. According to some of the staffers, at least part of the motivation is a major drop-off in contributions from small donors (I'm certainly one of those who are refusing to donate another penny until the RNC and the President stop spitting in our faces and insulting us on immigration). This statement, by an RNC spokeswoman, just smacks of denial:
"Any assertion that overall donations have gone down is patently false," Miss Schmitt said. "We continue to out raise our Democrat counterpart by a substantive amount (nearly double)."
Why doesn't the GOP get this? The base is mad as hell, and even if they think amnesty will translate to some gain for the GOP from newly-legalized Hispanics (though there's plenty of reason to doubt it will), how can they be so blind to the fact that they appear to be losing at least as much from the base as any conceivable gains? It's just nuts.
Source: RNC fires phone solicitors - Nation/Politics - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper
via The Corner