The buying of the government after 2008 has already begun. The current set of representatives are already bought and paid for.

What's most interesting about this analysis is what it doesn't say, which is that the big money funders for the Republicans have shifted their money away from Congressional raises toward the upcoming Presidential election. The lack of money for Congress means that Republicans have essentially written off the upcoming Congressional elections and any gains they might have made for Republican controlled seats and shifted their money toward staving off a Democratic candidacy, most particularly a Clinton Presidency, which would be devastating toward Republican interests.

Democrat = Republican = traitor. They're all the same. A vote for Rudy is a vote for Hillary... they all work for the same boss.

Leading up to the '06 election the Republican party, at all levels supported the liberal Republican candidates and not only refused to support but actually attacked conservative ones. If a conservative successfully challaged a liberal republican in the primaries, the party picked up its marbles and went home, prefering to forfeit the seat rather than support a conservative...remember the Arizona 8th, or Laffee vs chaffee?...Rove, specter etc wrote the conservatives off...actually said they didn't need us to win...Hey...Do ya want us now, huh huh huh?

Every time the RNC calls, I tell them I will donate to them again when the Republicans in both houses of Congress start governing the way the people that elected them want them to govern. I will no longer stand for them running as Conservatives and governing like Liberals. Apparently a lot of people are doing the same. Good.

I only contribute to those specific GOP candidates who I know for sure have not sold out the country on the issue of illegal immigration. I will not contribute to the national GOP as long as pro amnesty Martinez is chairman of the GOP National Committee.

I guess if you screw up too badly, people don;t give you any money.

I feel so bad for the GOP. It is not their fault that they are a bunch of incompetent, corrupt, and immoral racists.

Or is it?

I was a regular contributor to several GOP committees, however, since the party is run by RINO's and not traditional conservatives, I no longer support them. I have also switched my registration from Republican to Independent. When the GOP returns to its grass roots and prompts true conservative then and only then will I return to the party.

Their only hope is the new crop of Ron Paul Republicans, as the base is tired of the big spending neo-conservatives, just like the rest of the country.

We have too many ignorant people that are able to vote just because they are of age.

Any elected official that is not commited to doing everything in his or her power to do what is good for this nation should be run out of town. Our current president is doing just that (for the most part) and no one stands behind him. Most everyone in the nation now (both governing officials and citizens) are self-centered, greedy, immoral, self-serving and near-sighted. The immoral majority is well represented in our government.

Not one penny of my treasure, not one moment of my time. I am an old fashioned conservative and so can no longer identify myself as a republican. With astounding arrogance, the "machine" has ground us down and spit us out. The only time they kiss up is when they want my money. What they get now from me is "Non habla englese!"

Nobody is standing behind our current president because he's made almost everything he touches worse! He's thrown away the core conservative value or fiscal responsibility for a "borrow and spend" plan that our children will bear for decades. He's screwed up the Iraq war so badly that he's now responsible for the creation of more terrorists than Bin Laden. He's done all this while alienating every non-Christian voting demographic in the nation.

Ditto with Lizzard Lipps, Ziggy 589, DeToqueville, Paul H. Lortie, Larry & Isabel. I work and play with tons of activists in Houston and almost all of us have said "NO" to the RNC and their liberal ways. Real conservatives know they've sold out.

Republicans / Democrats

That's why I register as Independent. Oh, and no more voting for the lesser of two evils. I will simply abstain as long as neither party can produce a worthwhile candidate.

There is only one home for conservatives it's called the Constitution Party. I didn't leave the Republicans they left me. They need to give us a reason why we should vote for them rather than scaring us into voting aginst "Hitlery". Please vote for what you want and trust G-d for the result.

I am sick of being branded less than patriotic for asking logical questions concerning this administration's foreign and domestic policies. I am disgusted with President Bush for attacking citizens who volunteer their time for border observation by calling them "vigilantes". I am quite peeved with President Bush for calling citizens who question the NAFTA Superhighway, the SPP, and the formation of a North American Union, "conspiracy theorists". All of the aformentioned organizations, projects, and actions exist and are being acted upon. The proof is there!!! President Bush sopped up the votes of evangelical conservatives then spit in their faces. He continues, with great arrogance, to belittle true conservatives. I told my friends and family in 2000 that Bush isn't what he seems. I told them Bush is a globalist who could care less about the Constitution. Well, brothers and sisters, are you satisfied? You got what you deserved and then some.

Calling people cash poor who stole Ft.Knox and hid it in their basements, backyards, foreign banks, etc. is like calling the MAINSCREAM media on top of things. It don't add up do it, VIRGINIA????

Agreed with every other real conservative American on this board. I never believed Bush was a true America and especially a constitutional conservative..., NEVER! I voted for Pat Buchanan in 1992,1996, and 2000. If Christians are going to be so naive again to buy the "party guy vote" another time I will hang my head in shame for them.

The elite globalist and their RINO servants have raped us for our money, our strength, given away ours and our children's heritage to illegal aliens, our jobs to feigners, in the process of selling our Highways for toll roads, power systems, etc.!!

Please don't vote for the two evils again, we have to have a revolution NOW not later. Congressman Ron Paul and Tom Tancredo V.P.. Bart is right..., "vote for what you want and trust God for the result."

I only donate to specific America First Candidates now. I would not flip a penny to the RNC with "Fidel Mel" running it. They are nothing more than a (CFR) Council on Foreign Relations outreach arm. I cannot support a North American Union or all of this other Constitution killing socialism that Big Government Neo-Cons have come up with. Time for a return to the fundamentals of conservatism. Republicans better run on the Fair Tax, getting out of the UN, FAIR Trade not the Nafta/Cafta-China giveaway gig that sends jobs overseas and securing the border while cutting off freeloading benefits to illegal aliens so that they will go back from where they came.

For a Safe & Secure America Vote Tancredo

I was a conservative Republican for many years until I finally figured out that as soon as the "conservative republican" that I helped get elected got into office they turned their backs on everything that they said they were going to do and became the same as they guy that I voted against. Look at what baby bush said in 1999 to get elected to his first term if you don't believe me. I'm voting in the republican primary this time to elect the one man who talks the talk and walks the walk, Congressman Ron Paul of Texas. He's for small government and wants to restore American citizens rights that baby bush has taken from us. Otherwise I will vote for the Libertarian Party candidates in the next election because at least I can look in the mirror the next morning and know that I didn't do anything to take this country down the road to socialism thru my vote.

Let's ask WHY?
Why in the face of a Democrat majority which should get Republicans into a mood for a fight, are GOP donors just not interested?

AMNESTY!

Amnesty killed the GOP voter's interest in helping the party. 90+% of Americans are against amnesty! The GOP's fundraising tanked during the amnesty battle and never recovered.

GOP voters might go to the polls and vote for the lesser of two evils in 2008, but why bother supporting with enthusiasm (or $) a party that keeps trying to force amnesty down our throats. The GOP leaders (as well as Dems) keep putting amnesty provisions into bills hoping nobody will notice. We do notice!

How to get GOP donors to open their wallets and support candidates with enthusiasm? Actually BUILD a 2,000 mile fence on the Mexican border. A 2,000 mile fence COULD be build before Bush leaves office at a cost of less than a month of the Iraq war. Defeat all anmesty/guest worker bills (and do not introduce any). Limit all immigration until the recent tens of millions are fully assimilated. Pass English as the official language. Listen to the voters! Oh yes, no more "Bridge to Nowhere" projects!

If the Republican Party ever wishes to regain a majority, their leaders would be well advised to read the comments on this page. Lip service will not open the pocketbooks of betrayed supporters, only real action on the issues diescussed on this page will make a difference.

No one should vote straight Party lines, ever again! These 2 Parties don't deserve our respect, let alone our votes.

I'm voting for issues.....for one that means they will seal the borders and enforce our immigration laws...and not take any more flack from the Mexican government. I am voting for one that fights to maintain our manufacturing jobs and brings back the pride we have in , Made in America!

And for one will a spine enough to stand up and tell foreign countries that the bank is closed, to start reforming your own countries to help your own people...especially those countries that have rich resources and continue to be corrupt, while having their hand out to take our tax dollars.

Anyone know a candidate like this?

When they call me I tell them because of their treachery and the treachery of Dear Leader I'm sending all the money I would have sent them and would be sending in the future to Ron Paul. Oh they simple love to hear that. And then I add some extra to the check I send to Ron Paul's campaign just to show my disgust for the Republican party leadership and Dear Leader.

This current treasonous government is making safe the way for each block of the New World Order to be placed: rampant immigration, un-"free trade", the NAFTA superhighway, the destruction of the trucking industry with cheap-labor Mexicans, SPP, and of course finally, one World Government. Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Michael Medved...are all shill "Tokyo Roses" for the internationalist elite -- they are the worst of traitors.

Sounds like the Republicans run their own house the way they've run the country...INTO THE DITCH with a NINE TRILLION DOLLAR National Debt. Must have been the fact that Republicans spent FIFTEEN times as much on pork as the Democrats in charge of Congress before them. So much for "fiscal conservatives". No such thing...that's just a propaganda slogan.

OK. I'm a long time Conservative Republican who is simply tired of fighting my own Party let alone the Dems. I'm trying to figure out why Bush is selling out America, why we won't build the fence, why Gov. Rick Perry is pushing for Mexican trucks when he knows Texans don't want them etc... etc... etc...

I must repeat No Amnesty's post:
Defeat all anmesty/guest worker bills (and do not introduce any). Limit all immigration until the recent tens of millions are fully assimilated. Pass English as the official language. Listen to the voters! Oh yes, no more "Bridge to Nowhere" projects!

WHERE IS OUR VIABLE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE?? THERE ISN'T ONE! This is DOLE all over again.

I could go on and on but I'm getting too mad to continue typing...

So long America. I'm afraid Hitlery is about to take over. The USA we once knew is gone forever friend.

Because of the progression of the up and coming American Union, the continuing amnesty endeavors, and the failure to take the party rank and file's concern about border security seriously (where is the fence?) Bush and the other administration globalists
have ruined the Republican party.

Sounds like a lot of repubs would like the GOP to return to conservative values. Goldwater was the last true conservative. There is a Goldwater republican running this time - her name is HILLARY! Too conservative for me, but you might find you agree with her if you can get past the dittohead hillery crap and listen to what she says instead of what Rush says she says.

The GOP party used to stand for small government, small spending. Now it is hijacked by the Christian right and has become a religious party rather than a political party. I don't know about you, but I don't want to live in a high-debt theocracy-which is exactly what Bush and the current repubs have turned us into.

These GOPers have really shown what a bunch of right winged extremist warmongering born-agains will do to this country-bring it to its knees. We need a moderate democrat-like Hillary or Edwards-people that aren't too liberal, have common sense, strong on terror, and are willing to get us out of the mess that Bush got us into.

Want a true conservative? Check out Ron Paul.

He's a strict constitutionalist and stands for everything I thought the Republican Party was supposed to believe in.
Want to live in a Police State? Vote for Giuliani or Clinton, it doesn't matter, you'll get the same either way.

Anytime you hear these blind patriots screaming that "it's a liberal ploy" to enable "our enemies" you can bet your boots that they are simpletons who are just TOO LAZY to do the homework it takes to actually understand what is happening around them. They want to remain in bed where it is nice and warm... nappy time for the ignorant who want to return to dreamland where the USA is not capable of being misled. Where all you need is a flag, a pie, a mom and a bible and you can back ANY presidential military conquest because after all, in dreamland, the president is ALWAYS RIGHT and KNOWS what is in our best interests. Perhaps you guys will not go away, but could you please STAY OUT of the political process?

Poor republicans, we should all feel their pain about RIGHT now. The republicans that walk by me all have pursed lips and furtive glances as their last gasp. Shocking, is it not????

Just this afternoon, I mailed the National Republican Congressional Committee a fundraising letter thinly disguised as a "survey." The last question is always "Will you send us money?" I said "No. The Republicans in Congress have not earned it."

Republicans have abandoned their (supposed) small government, low tax, low regulation, common sense foreign policy positions and have instead grown the size, cost and scope of government.

I told them to emulate Ron Paul.

Maybe Ron Paul can save the Republican Party from itself.

That's the test: If Republicans don't support Ron Paul, then the GOP doesn't stand for what it claims to stand for and small government people should switch to the Libertarian Party in droves.

The issue isn't as some conservatives say, having the "courage of your convictions" but rather having the basic conviction at all. If a person doesn't believe that America is worth standing up for as a basic conviction then it dosen't matter if they have the courage of OTHER convictions.

That's why I'm working for Barb White for Congress in MN 5th CD. "The host district of the 2008 Natl. Republican Convention"

If Reagan was a black woman, he'd pretty closely resemble Barb Davis White.