Outstandingly good read, this blog:
http://americablog.blogspot.com/Newsmax BLASTS Bush - suggests he may lose
by John in DC - 2:55 PM
This is just downright odd. Newsmax, a virtual appendage of the Bush Administration in terms of its never-ending pro-Bush spin, has just written a commentary excoriating the president and suggesting that he's going to lose, and that when he does, it will be his own fault.
At first I thought Newsmax was writing this story, entitled "Is the Bush campaign running out of money?", simply as a tool to fundraise. But there's no fundraising appeal attached to the article. It's simply a frank explanation of how some major Republican donors, and Democratic friends of Bush, are now refusing to help the campaign because they feel perenially spurned by the Bushies AND ALSO they believe their help won't now make any difference anyway (read: Bush is already toast).
This is a very dispiriting article from Newsmax, and a very bad sign for the Bushies. Well, dispiriting if you're pro-Bush. :-)
Is the Bush Campaign Running Out of Money?
When John Kerry's campaign came from near insolvency to raising more money than the incumbent, President George Bush, we thought the President would be in a wee bit of money trouble. And when we saw the 527s raising tens of millions backed by the likes of George Soros -- without the Republicans doing likewise -- we knew that Republicans would be in for a big store of trouble.
NewsMax's Insider Report was the first to reveal that the FEC would not rule against the 527s. In fact, we reported that Republican commission members had warned the Bush White House to get into the game ASAP because the 527s would not be declared illegal. But the Bush campaign, not interested in having independent groups they could not control, would not give its blessing to pro-Bush 527s.
Now the money math is simple. The Kerry forces - through his campaign, the unions and the 527s - will outspend Bush by some $300 million or more by election day. 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.
For example, there's the NRA - perhaps the most critical group that backed Bush in 2000 - still furious over the McCain-Feingold bill that has perhaps permanently emasculated them in the political process.
But there are other stories told. There is a prominent Democrat who endorsed Bush and never heard from the Republicans for months after going public. Now when they call he says he is still supporting Bush, but "please, let me do my own thing" (read: please keep your distance). If Bush loses in November it may be due to his lack of cash - and more likely due to the poor job his political operatives have done.
Tip O'Neill once said all politics is local. He was wrong: all politics is politics.
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