GOP senatorial committee in the red

[sabra]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061129/ap_on_el_se/republican_debt

GOP senatorial committee in the red

WASHINGTON - The Republicans' senatorial campaign arm, which lagged behind other national party committees in fundraising the past two years, emerged from the Nov. 7 election in debt and is soliciting donations to get out of the red.

In an urgent appeal to donors this week, Sen. Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina, the chairwoman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, beseeched contributors to "help us retire our debt."

"If we let this debt linger, it will cripple our efforts to recruit great candidates for the next election and begin our drive to win the one additional seat we need to regain the Senate majority," Dole wrote.

The Associated Press obtained a copy of the letter, which was confirmed by NRSC spokesman Dan Ronayne. "We do have a debt, as Senator Dole noted," Ronayne said.

[JeffR]

1. Running up debt is the only thing these jerks excel at

:rofl:

[Donnachaidh]

2. not surprizing -- they ran the government into the red zone

should anyone expect them to balance a budget anywhere? :sarcasm:

[LynneSin]

3. I expect some change from this donation

[napingo]

4. Smart move. Now, they'll raise twice as much money as before.

"HILLARY! is coming and we don't have the means to defeat her. Give NOW. Empty (your co's) bank account and help us defeat godless Hilliarism".

[Raiden]

5. Liddy isn't very intelligent, is she?

"If we let this debt linger, it will cripple our efforts to recruit great candidates for the next election and begin our drive to win the one additional seat we need to regain the Senate majority," Dole wrote.

This statement tells me two things:
a.) NRSC debts are apparently more important than national debts to Republicans
b.) Liddy assumes that the 2008 senatorial election will occur in a vaccuum wherein the Republicans only need to acquire *one* seat in order to win the Senate. Let's hope she forgets that the Repubs have approx. twice as many Senate seats up for grabs as the Dems... LOL

Liddy is the best Senatorial Committee chair the Dems ever had ;-)

[napi21]

6. Hey, they were dumb enough to put old Liz in charge. What did

they expect...stelar performance?

[Jack Rabbit]

7. I guess they just did what they do all the time on the floor of the Senate

They decided to appropriate money they didn't have.

[hughee99]

8. Shocking...

a campaign committee is in debt just after the election? I'm just amazed. Thankfully, the DNC, the DSCC and DCCC have always remained in the black so I can feel free to criticize the repukes with general statements about campaign committees that go into debt without feeling the least bit of guilt about it. :sarcasm:

Frankly, this isn't that uncommon. The repukes are going to continue to raise money from idiots and favor-seekers all around the country, and I'm happy to know that whatever debt they ran up was in a mostly wasted effort.

[yellowcanine]

9. Maybe if the Dem committee were in the red, Ford would be senator.

Actually Carville was pushig both the Dem House and Senate committees to borrow money in order to make the most of the opportunity. How much they followed his advise I do not know.

[Lexingtonian]

10. they did

They just don't have to run to their small contributor base to cover it, now. All those companies are now throwing money at the Democrats, hoping it will diminish the investigation and rollback of every overreach and abuse they inflicted over the past several years. Winner takes it all, loser takes the fall....

In Tennessee the Undecideds were practically all Corker leaners, that was pretty clear from the start. By Election Day they were polling for Corker. At 47% in the polling, Ford could only have won if he'd gotten 110%+ of the turnout rate Corker got. Tennessee Democrats were exceedingly efficient at turnout, but Republicans matched it. So no, it was not a matter of money- the state got drowned in negative ads and the turnout operation was well-funded and well run. As a state it simply has an electorate whose center is socially conservative, lower middle class as the mean, and preponderantly white in 2006. It is politically defined by all that entails- Corker is something of an epitome.

[yellowcanine]

12. I am thinking a better job could have been done countering the negative ads.

And that would have taken a lot of money but maybe it would have tilted some of the leaners Ford's way or at least kept some of the softer Corker voters home because they saw through the anti-Ford ads.

[Renew Deal]

11. It's only 1 candidate if they keep the presidency.

If we win it's 2.

[MasonJar]

13. Who would give that bunch of cretins money? I am shocked that

the Repudiated House received enough to stay out of debt.