The Absurd Report

The RNC is not the GOP. It’s only a collective national action committee for the state Republican parties, a fund raising and steering committee. Yet for far too long, the RNC has assumed increasing power over the political process to the detriment of the party. Voter complacency and apathy towards the political process has left control of the party in the hands of a few centrist party elites and conservative voters have lost faith in their own party as a result.

2008 marks yet another election cycle wherein the conservative base of the party was unable to advance a single solid conservative candidate in a system front-loaded with early primaries in liberal leaning districts. By the time core Republicans got a chance to vote for a nominee, they had no one left to vote for.

The default nominee was opposed by almost 70 percent of the party faithful in the primaries. The message from conservatives was loud and clear - they wanted someone more conservative than John McCain. But that message was fragmented and divided between at least eight other candidates, leaving the door wide open for a centrist candidate like McCain to claim the nomination by default.

The Message in the Money

John McCain had his best fund-raising month to-date when he raised a reported $11 million in February 2008 as the party nominee. But each of his Democrat opponents out-raised him more than 3 to 1 during the same period. Hillary Clinton raised a reported $35 million and Barack Obama raised an astonishing $55 million in February.

Overall, McCain has raised only $60 million throughout his entire campaign, while Clinton has raised more than $160 million and Obama has raised more than $200 million. The money message is clear.

Republicans are not sending financial support to the McCain campaign, nor are they sending it to the Republican National Committee for congressional races

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