COLUMBIA — "Stop Clinton/Obama now" reads the subject line on a Republican National Committee fundraising e-mail today.
As the two frontrunners battle it out for delegates, and the GOP candidates say Sen. Hillary Clinton is the woman to beat, the RNC seems to be focusing on either Clinton or Sen. Barack Obama. And the e-mail includes no love (or hate, depending on how you look at it) for former Sen. John Edwards.:
Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are raking in the campaign cash hand-over-fist.
They begin 2008 having raised more than $200 million combined. In the first eight days of this year, Barack Obama's campaign bragged they had raised over $8 million -- and Hillary Clinton's campaign is right there with him.
Last year, Democrat presidential contenders and Democrat party committees combined raised more than Republicans. Liberal special interests are raising hundreds of millions of dollars from Big Labor, Hollywood elites and radical protest groups like MoveOn.org to defeat Republicans in November.
We must close the gap with the Democrats if we are to have the resources available to elect a new Republican President and Congress. Please help the RNC raise the funds we need to counter the Democrats by making a secure online contribution of $1,000, $500, $100, $50, or $25 today.
The Democrats and their liberal special interest allies will spend and say whatever it takes to win total control of the government. They are determined to push our country to the Left.
Whoever the Democrat nominee ultimately is, we already know their vision for the future. Both Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama want to:
* Implement massive tax increases that punish hard-working American families in order to pay for new government bureaucracies.
* Give government instead of patients and doctors more power and control over health care; and,
* Retreat from the War on Terror and cut off funding for our men and women in uniform.
We cannot allow a return of the high taxes, big government, weakened national security style of governing that Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama embody.
The RNC must raise the funds now to support our eventual nominee if we are to compete with the Clinton/Obama/liberal special interest money machine. That's why today I'm turning to our Party's top supporters once again.
Electing Republicans committed to our principles of lower taxes, a strong national defense and less government begins with you. Please make a secure online contribution of $1,000, $500, $100, $50, or $25 to support the RNC's efforts today.
Your immediate support is crucial to countering the Democrat money machine and keeping our campaign programs on track. Thank you.
Best Wishes,
Robert M. "Mike" Duncan
Chairman, Republican National Committee
P.S., Democrats and left-wing special interest groups are raising hundreds of millions of dollars to put a liberal like Senator Clinton or Barack Obama in the White House and expand their majorities in Congress. Please make an urgent online campaign contribution of $1,000, $500, $100, $50, or $25 to the RNC today to keep our Party on the path to nationwide victories. Thank you.
— Christina Bellantoni, national political reporter, The Washington Times
Comments (2)
Media coverage also confirms the two top candidates are Clinton and Obama. If we ever get past the Democrats' adolescent stage of the campaign, we will find out if the Republicans are right or wrong with their assumptions on tax increases, government controlled healthcare and the war on terror.
Posted by Larry Stone | January 26, 2008 12:01 AM
As a dyed-in-the-wool Republican, I must admit that the likelihood of a Republican being elected to the White House in '08 is questionable. That forces me to look for a Democrat that I can live with...and that's Barack Obama.
The Clinton party line - i.e. look what "we" accomplished in the '90s in terms of the economy - is absurd, and Obama should hit hard on that point. I think even Larry Kudlow (my mentor at Bear Stearns) would agree that was the long-term effect of Reagonomics, combined with the masterful work of Alan Greenspan, that enabled Bill and Hillary to rest on their self-proclaimed laurels. So when Obama refers to Ronald Reagan as a proponent of change, he shouldn't be criticized for it, but instead praised. The Clintons glided through eight easy years in the White House. Alan Greenspan performed...they didn't, except in terms of scandal.
What America needs is a "great communicator" who can bring the country together again not just in a political sense, but also as it pertains to the international perception of America. In that respect, Barack Obama is the closest thing to Ronald Reagan to ever hit Washington D.C., and I think we Republicans have to understand that. Everyone of course should vote for the candidate they feel is best suited for the job, but I hope that all of us bear in mind what it means to America to have an honorable president in the White House.
Posted by Craig Crandall | January 26, 2008 7:12 AM