Tuesday, February 22, 2005

6-1 finacial advantage for RNC

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The RNC raised nearly 6 times as much money in the last month then the DNC.

Why is this?
Are the extreamist partys taking DNC funds?
Or was the dems base all played out durring the elections?

8 comments:

tom said...

Because we were obliterated. We are still dazed and confused from the election. We are dizzy, trying to find our footing, looking for an identity. That and Republicans have all the money and we are just out here working our asses of for the Republicans trying to pay our mortgage and praying for a country that gives a damn in the future. Eventually, the Republicans will run up untenable budgets, wreck the economy, alienate most of the American people and the Democrats will have to come back and right the ship again. (The last sentence is really just looking for a fight in good nature…well, I guess all of this is).

RobertDWood said...

Ya know, I thought it might be because there are more conservatives then liberals, using the elections as evidnce.

tom said...

(1) More conservatives than liberals? NEVER! Sure, there has been great success in painting all liberals as lazy, crazy spend loving nincompoops. (and many of the vocal and visible liberals don’t help either) Liberals are out there. They don’t know they are liberal, but they are out there and we (the Dems) need to reconnect.
(2) Pro-life Dems? Right-on. It is time we (us Dems) stopped allowing Reps from taking what should be Dems votes because of the abortion issue. There is plenty of room for pro-life, gun-tootin' old time Dems like my Granpa in the party! We were obliterated because we have incorrectly defined ourselves. My Dem party is all about the common people - the good of the God fearing, hard working people of this land. Somehow we must reconnect with that. It is very important because there are so many issues where the working people do not have a real friend in the Rep party.
(3) There are so many people I would have liked better than Kerry that could have been a strong war-time president. First, Collin Powel is MY kind of Democrat. It is a shame we let him be subverted to the Rep party. I think the first Bush admin showed that he should have been working to right the Dem party all along rather than playing footsie with the Republicans.
(4) Rep and Dems of equal wealth? I disagree. Perhaps there are ubber-rich Dems, but most of their money is tied up in God knows what that does not help the average man's economy. Clearly, the real working capital of this nation is controled by the Republicans. (Granted, those people are some of the most entrepreneurial, but still). And being a Dem Texas professional, I am accutely aware of my minority status.

RobertDWood said...

" More conservatives than liberals? NEVER!"
Ah, so what happend in the election was a bunch of hypnotised liberals being forced against their will to vot republican?
Don't think so...

"My Dem party is all about the common people - the good of the God fearing, hard working people of this land. Somehow we must reconnect with that."

So in the words of Zel Miller, your party left you? So if that is what the party is all about, why do you need to "reconnect" with the american people?


"First, Collin Powel is MY kind of Democrat. It is a shame we let him be subverted to the Rep party. I think the first Bush admin showed that he should have been working to right the Dem party all along rather than playing footsie with the Republicans."

Colin Powel is a republican, not conservative. There is a difference. Was he ever a democrat, in order that he may have been "subverted"?


"Clearly, the real working capital of this nation is controled by the Republicans. (Granted, those people are some of the most entrepreneurial, but still)"

Ok, so why is it a problem if they go out every morning and work their socks off to earn the money?
And how much money is in the entertainment industry??? And how many of them are liberal democrats?

tom said...

1. Zel can go to H-E-double hockey sticks.
2. Hypnotised? Kind of, yes. The republicans have convinced a great many working people to vote against thier own interest using certain issues.
3. Powell never had a Dem label. He is ambiguous in many issue specific areas. He is pro-affirmative action, and I suspect he would be pro-balanced budget, and pro-policies to help working families. He could have been a good moderate or "new" Democrat.
4. I never said it was a problem to work hard for money. That is wonderful. I have held a job since age 13, paid for my own college and law school, I have never even had more than one vacation and I think more Americans should work as hard as me.
5. Most in the entertainment industry are liberal. Are you seriously telling me that the rich movie producers counter the vast Republican wealth?

RobertDWood said...

" 1. Zel can go to H-E-double hockey sticks."

After all that work he put into the democratic party, and ya'll just turn you back on him, or put a knife into his.

"2. Hypnotised? Kind of, yes. The republicans have convinced a great many working people to vote against thier own interest using certain issues."

Such as...

"3. Powell never had a Dem label. He is ambiguous in many issue specific areas. He is pro-affirmative action, and I suspect he would be pro-balanced budget, and pro-policies to help working families. He could have been a good moderate or "new" Democrat."

I see. Pro-balenced budget would not be democrating platform.
Pro-working famlies: That would be tax cuts, not government programs.

"4. I never said it was a problem to work hard for money. That is wonderful. I have held a job since age 13, paid for my own college and law school, I have never even had more than one vacation and I think more Americans should work as hard as me."

Except then we wouldn't have a tourism industry! more people out of work.

"5. Most in the entertainment industry are liberal. Are you seriously telling me that the rich movie producers counter the vast Republican wealth?"

That was implication...

tom said...

Government has certain responsibilites (education) and working familes are having a tougher time. The nations wealth is increasingly unduely concentrated at the top and social mobility in American is at an all-time low. A person in Europe actually has more opportunity to work hard and climb the socicla ladder than an American. (recent Mother Jones article) Working familes have more concerns than can be addressed with tax cuts that are desguised give-aways to the ubber wealthy.

The entertainment producers in Holloywood do not compare to the vast Republican dominated wealth in America.

Less tourism? Fine by me. Vacations are for the weak and lazy. Get to work and rest when you are dead.

RobertDWood said...

" Government has certain responsibilites (education)"

If you could please show me where the constitution lays out that education is the responability of the Federal Government, I would appreciate it. Until then however, it is not to be considered a government responsibiltiy


" A person in Europe actually has more opportunity to work hard and climb the socicla ladder than an American."

Ah, yes. Europe, the wonderful world of opportunity with gas at $4 a gallon. Lots of opportunity with the taxes clouding your rise to the top.


"Working familes have more concerns than can be addressed with tax cuts that are desguised give-aways to the ubber wealthy."

Well, considering that 10 of the nation pays 50% of the taxes, a cut would be in order for them.


"Less tourism? Fine by me. Vacations are for the weak and lazy. Get to work and rest when you are dead."

An the democrats claim to care.
Ok, buddy. If those people loose their job, they don't pay income taxes. If they don't pay income taxes, then they recive unemployment money. So the govenment is out, and then has to raise taxes on the rest of us until the other get a job. Once they have jobs, then will the Feds repeal the taxes? Nooo...