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GOP recriminations

Posted by Sini

It's hard to believe given the GOP's effectiveness at portraying uniformity, but there is some real anger among hardcore Republicans, particularly among big donors. Despite the real fear that left-leaning 527's may help Democrats outspend the right, some wingnuts aren't donating, says their own mouthpiece, Newsmax.

And the reasons? About what you would expect folks who made their money screwing the poor and elect Republicans to lower their taxes by screwing the poor a second time.

With just two months left we thought the Republicans would be desperate for money. And so it is.

One wealthy Republican – one of the few who can write Soros-style checks of $10 million or more – tells us that he has, all of a sudden, gotten calls from desperate Republicans seeking help, including one call from RNC chief Ed Gillespie. All calls have gone unreturned.

Like most Republicans, he is strongly rooting for Bush. But no money will be sent. This donor doesn't believe it will make much of a difference at this point.

And then there's politics. President Bush never invited the donor – a frequent guest in the Oval Office of previous Republican presidents - to the White House even once during the past four years.

It's a story we have heard time and again. Conservatives who write to the president get no response, and no one from the Bush White House calls to thank their friends and supporters on behalf of the President. These are the normal things previous administrations have done.

The stories about lack of follow up from the Bush White House and RNC are legion with the constituencies of the "Reagan base" of the party.

It's reminiscent of nothing so much as Newt Gingrich causing a government shutdown because he didn't get to ride with the big boys in Air Force One, but then I suppose you get the kind of supporters you deserve.

12:58 AM |