Conservative Leader Tells Donors to Stop Giving to RNC

CNN: The head of an influential social conservative organization urged members and supporters Wednesday to stop donating to the Republican National Committee and instead contribute to its own coffers or to candidates with like-minded goals.

April 1, 2010 at 1:06 pm - CNN
Dateline: Atlanta, GA
kmichaels   April 1st, 2010 - 12:18 pm

It will be best to give money to your Church. Preferably a Baptist or fundamental one that reflects the values of the founders.

R from ID   April 1st, 2010 - 12:33 pm

Mr. Perkins has some good points there.

The RNC needs to get their act together and then prove it by more than just talk the talk. They also need to walk the walk.

IntoTheWild   April 1st, 2010 - 12:34 pm

Stopped donating to RNC quite some time ago. I donate now to individuals running in various campaigns across the country. As long as their stand is for small government, lower taxes, business friendly, repeal the health “care” bill, fiscal responsibility and other conservative positions. You don’t have to live in their district to help them win. Please donate a little or a lot, whatever you can afford, to conservatives running for office.

kmichaels   April 1st, 2010 - 12:39 pm

Rattlesnakes are expensive these days, especially the defanged ones that we kiss!

Billy   April 1st, 2010 - 1:10 pm

I guess you can string along the abortion morons for only so long.

RNC-will-you-R.I.P   April 1st, 2010 - 1:10 pm

the teaparty making a move in on the RNC how interesting.The RNC is dying at the waste side

temple62   April 1st, 2010 - 1:12 pm

Good advice especially after Obama got support from RINOs Lindsay Graham, John McCain and Olympia Snow on several issues during his first failed year in office. These potential candidate had better come to the table with a full plate if they want my vote!

Glenn   April 1st, 2010 - 1:24 pm

Fantastic! Perhaps the Republicans can finally isolate and leave behind the Neo-Con-Gelicals, who drive many independents and libertarians away from the party.

leuken   April 1st, 2010 - 1:27 pm

kmichaels:

I agree with you that giving to your church is probably better that giving to a political party, I just wanted to clear this up. Most of the founders were episcopalians, presbyterians, and congregationalists.

Religious Affiliation
of U.S. Founding Fathers

# of FoundingFathers

% of Founding Fathers

Episcopalian/Anglican 88 54.7%

Presbyterian 30 18.6%

Congregationalist 27 16.8%

Quaker 7 4.3%
Dutch Reformed/German Reformed 6 3.7%
Lutheran 5 3.1%
Catholic 3 1.9%
Huguenot 3 1.9%
Unitarian 3 1.9%
Methodist 2 1.2%
Calvinist 1 0.6%
TOTAL 204

Colascguy   April 1st, 2010 - 1:29 pm

Glenn as a libertarian I can tell you it is the progressives like John McCain and Graham that have drove me away from the party.

Kayte   April 1st, 2010 - 1:37 pm

If your district is not going to struggle this November, please find a congressional district near you that needs your help! We must flip these house seats! Supporting and funding conservative like-minded candidates would be extremely helpful in GA D-4! Our district was Cynthia McKinney and now Hank Johnson! Trying to help connect & encourage conservative voters here is a big job! email: GAdistrict4@gmail.com and FB: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Georgia-District-4-Conservatives/269284972787

Rexter   April 1st, 2010 - 1:40 pm

Once they began taking orders from Israel, they ignored the American people. Some of you are only just now catching on as the disconnect becomes so much more apparent but now it is really too late.

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/holy_land_studies/v005/5.1haija.html

the professor   April 1st, 2010 - 1:55 pm

If it’s true that Mike Steele and other Repubs are coming out for ANY form of amnesty–they’ll never see another dime from me! In fact, I want their major focus to be complete REPEAL of Obamacare, the closing of our borders, the defunding and deportation of illegals, and the absolute end to any talk of “Cap and Trade” type energy bills. While they’re at it, they have to clean house at all the regulatory agencies, and pack the courts with no-nonsense, pipe-swinging, conservative constructionist judges. Any candidate that will not pledge to these issues gets nothing from me.

Cujo47   April 1st, 2010 - 1:57 pm

I stopped giving them money several years ago. If they think that they win
any races they won’t do it with Steele as leader or trying to run Romney for president. They will loose again.

jp2feminist   April 1st, 2010 - 2:05 pm

I make it my practice to only give to Catholic, pro-life organizations, and I only vote for PRO-LIFE Republicans (can’t trust the “pro-life’ Dems yet, as we well know!).

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sd   April 1st, 2010 - 2:07 pm

Perhaps Mr Perkins wants a Democratic Congress to continue. Social conservative in many ways are not unlike the present liberals, use the ofrce of government to get my way instead of liberty. Frankly churchs drove me away but closer to Christ, from whom they have removed themselves. some of this was mainstream like the Epicspal what is the latest chic and trendy thing but frankly the fundamentalists turn me off greatly, as I read scripture I cannot see how they think thye are winning any friends. This being saqid in the main religous people do and should set an example, that is how conversions are made. Unfortunately these social conservatives have not heeded Christs commnet about rendering unto Ceaser.

O'Really?   April 1st, 2010 - 2:41 pm

For all you Tea Party numbskulls out there,

If you aren’t going to support Republicans, then who are you going to support? Do you even have candidates? Saying everything sux is fine but you can’t vote someone out unless you vote someone in and right now you have no one.

jdog   April 1st, 2010 - 3:00 pm

i have been saying this for years….
never give to the RNC. give only to the campaigns that you support.

DoubleU   April 1st, 2010 - 3:41 pm

But… but … EVERYONE thinks November is a sure thing!

It isn’t dems vs repubs, it is the government vs the people.

@O'Really the Clown   April 1st, 2010 - 3:44 pm

The Tea Party movement has never, ever, been about backing one single party. When will knuckle-dragging, low-brow, flat earther progressives realize that the Tea Party movement is about educating the citizens of this nation about our country’s past as well as helping the voting population make conscience decisions about who they vote for. It’s already been proven you cannot trust your government, the current set of politicians, and you cannot and must not take what the media says as true and more so during election campaigns. Look at the Tea Party movement as the revival of what US politics used to be about, where the individual put forth the effort to do their own research about each candidate to make sound choice of which ones they support instead of this BS straight ticket crap post 1910.

I will concede that the very moment the Tea Party movement in whole, not individual group(s) starts backing one party over another or attempting a run for a third party that will end non-bias tone that is prevalent within the overall group. Until that moment your standard ad-hominem baseless attacks focused at the Tea Party is considered nothing more than you acting like a shill for progressives.

wilmac   April 1st, 2010 - 3:52 pm

they dont support conservatives.,why would i support them.,,
RINOS LIKE MCCAIN N GRAHMAN ARE THE PROBLEM.,
Support all your favorite Conservatives.,
lets get this mess straightend out.

Michelle   April 1st, 2010 - 3:57 pm

For the citizens of the great state of Texas
http://jbjd.wordpress.com/2010/03/29/clowns-left-jokers-right/
http://jbjd.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/clowns-left-jokers-right-2/
Well, remember, there’s always §161.009, which subjects the party chair to the legal cause of action called mandamus. http://law.onecle.com/texas/election/161.009.00.htmls (I mentioned this on drkate’s Revolution Radio, Part III.) Mandamus allows the court – the judicial branch of government – to order members of the executive branch of government – and, in Texas, political party Chairs – to perform their ministerial functions, as spelled out in law-legislative branch – which law, in this case, says Mr. Richie must declare Mr. Obama ineligible.

Sheryl   April 1st, 2010 - 4:01 pm

Mr. Perkins is 110% correct. No monies should go to the RNC. The organization does not hold themselves accountable as they should. Give to conservative PAC’s or directly to a conservative candidate. This is a better way to insure that your money is well spent. Personally, I love the FRC and I know for a fact that my money will go to conservative, pro-family and pro-life causes. FRC has been leading the fight for conservatives in Washington for many years now. And no, I don’t work for them, although if I lived in Washington, I sure would. They are indeed a group of wonderful God-fearing Americans!

Surfdumb   April 1st, 2010 - 4:07 pm

I’d like to see candidates talk of Impeachment, but it will never come from the RNC crowd.
“When once a republic is corrupted there is no possibility of
remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the
corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other
correction is either useless or a new evil.”
–- Thomas Jefferson on the necessity of the impeachment
provisions to our Constitution

“So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom,
those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active
and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any
number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon
sleeping men.”
— Voltaire
“A society whose citizens refuse to see and investigate the facts, who refuse to believe that their government and their media will routinely lie to them and fabricate a reality contrary to verifiable facts, is a society that chooses and deserves the Police State Dictatorship it’s going to get.”
— Ian Williams Goddard
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government — lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.” — Patrick Henry “We the People are the rightful masters of both congress and the courts — not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” — Abraham Lincoln “In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” — Thomas Jefferson
“The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors; they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.” — Samuel Adams

NOQTR4TR8RS   April 1st, 2010 - 4:07 pm

@ O’Really? April 1st, 2010 – 2:41 pm

“For all you Tea Party numbskulls out there, If you aren’t going to support Republicans, then who are you going to support? Do you even have candidates? Saying everything sux is fine but you can’t vote someone out unless you vote someone in and right now you have no one.”

In spite of your childish name-calling, you’ve managed to construct and deliver a legitimate question. It’s very early to be talking about 2012. But as it stands, the faces of the GOP as I see them in the media are primarily:

Sarah Palin
John McCain
Mitt Romney
Scott Brown

All of which are tried and failed GOP candidates, except for Scott Brown, who is a yet unproven, presumably independent-minded, Republican, a.k.a a RINO, like the other three. None of these four are strict Constitutionalists. And, it is these four who we often hear attempting to assume the title of “The TEA Party Candidate”. And we hear very little out of the TEA Party, rejecting that notion, which is ironic, when we read the mission statement of the TEA Party Patriots organization, found here:
http://www.teapartypatriots.org/mission.aspx

Their core values are:

*Fiscal Responsibility
*Constitutionally Limited Government
*Free Markets

In Palin, McCain and Romney, we have three politicians, all of whom support amnesty for illegal invaders, despite the fact that the Constitution mandates that the Federal government protect the several states from invasion. In John McCain we have a Senator who not only supported and voted for anti-Constitutional legislation banning free political speech, but who in fact AUTHORED the legislation which bears his name. Senator McCain also has repeatedly supported anti-Constitutional infringements on the People’s right to own, carry and use arms. Despite all this, Palin, Romney, and Brown are all actively campaigning for McCain’s re-election, against a viable alternative candidate, who would ardently defend our borders, and our First and Second Amendment rights.

In Mitt Romney, we have a former Governor, who worked with the nanny state socialists in his state to enact socialized medicine, similar to the disastrous Democrat Care that has just been enacted by the Federal government. Health care cost increases in Massachusetts are now outpacing the rest of the country substantially, access to doctors is now limited, and rationing has begun, starting with legal immigrants. Thanks in large part to RomneyCare, Massachusetts is now over $290 Million in debt – the highest of all the fifty states. Additionally, Romney signed into permanent status, Massachusetts’ anti-Constitutional, draconian gun control measures, and was proud to do so. To assert that somehow Mitt Romney embodies the ideal of Fiscal Responsibility, Constitutionally Limited Government and Free Markets is absurd.

I see the TEA Party, as it stands now, to be too disorganized to be effective in the long term. I believe they should decide, and now, whether to form a new party, or to take over the GOP and force the RINO’s into irrelevancy. If they choose to remain a presumably non-partisan activist group, who doesn’t officially endorse candidates, I fail to see how they can effect significant change.

Perhaps others here can persuade me otherwise, and I welcome the attempt.

Respectfully submitted.

Jamba   April 1st, 2010 - 4:22 pm

The Republicans have been giving only lip service to the values they profess to uphold, for a long long time. Here is the long list of those hypocrites (but only the ones who got caught!)……… republicanoffenders.com

They assume that Americans are too stupid to read the news and remember.

Guest   April 1st, 2010 - 4:25 pm

I stopped giving to the RNC years ago. I usually return their requests for alms with a note that they are not any different from the damn-craps.
When George Bush was pushing illegal amnesty, I left the RNC for the position of no party affiliation. I am a true independent.

While I like Rush, the difference between the repugnants and the dimocraps is very small. I vote for each candidate, regardless of his party affiliation. Yes, the RNC is more in line with my thinking, but I will no longer tolerate anyone who is not a pure conservative – from fiscal to moral. Anyone who thinks it’s OK to kill an unborn American, in my opinion, is a progressive and must be eliminated at any cost.
Remember that progressive Teddy Roosevelt, a so-called republican, was as evil as Wilson, a pure satanic president unlike any we have seen until two years ago.

We must vote for Jesus. Not the little satanic jesus that Obama’s bud, Wallis loves, but the real Jesus and all He stands for. We don’t worship idols or pray to “saints” and so forth. The real Gospel is about the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and has nothing to do with Caesar or forced charity, which is the same as forced love, since the word, “Charity” means “Love” except for the progressive obfuscation.

Never let Satan co-opt the language. Words mean things, and calling a slush fund a “jobs bill” does not change anything.
We as Americans are in mortal peril and we must respond to this attack on God promptly and quickly. The evil one is laughing at us and mocking us for electing an amoral atheistic Marxist to the White House. He even gets his daily reminders from Wallis – via the gospel of Marx.

Political Centrist   April 1st, 2010 - 4:26 pm

The last thing the Republicans need is more fratricide. Get it together or you will not get back into the majority.

http://www.PoliticalCentrist.com, News and views for independent voters

kmichaels   April 1st, 2010 - 4:36 pm

Give only to your Churches and God’s will will sweep conservatives into office in November.

bigScrotum   April 1st, 2010 - 4:37 pm

Yeah, like kmichael’s says, “Don’t fight it. Feel it!”

Bob Smith   April 1st, 2010 - 5:17 pm

@O’Really the Clown:

Oh, they get it! And it is scaring them !@#$less! They fear the truth more than anything. They know that if the truth about the tea party movement gets widespread acknowledgement, they will lose even more dems than the ones they have been able to con into voting for them. If things work out, the only people who will remain in the Democrat party will be uneducated jobless, educated but clueless, and just plain wacko.

DEMAND THE RELEASE OF THE BACKGROUND RECORDS NOW   April 1st, 2010 - 5:47 pm

I AGREE. TELL EVERYONE YOU COME IN CONTACT WITH TO BOYCOTT ALL DNC AND RNC CANDIDATES OR ELECTED OFFICIALS. CUT OFF ALL FUNDING UNTIL THEY DO THEIR JOB AND DEMAND THE RELEASE OF ALL OBAMA BACKGROUND RECORDS WITHOUT ANY FURTHER DELAY. BRING AN END TO THE CON-GAME NOW.

THE FACT IS THE CONSERVATIVES AND INDEPENDENTS CAN BRING AN IMMEDIATE END TO THESE CRIMINALS. DEMAND THE RELEASE OF ALL BACKGROUND DOCUMENTS USED BY PELOSI TO VALIDATE OBAMA WAS ELIGIBLE TO BE POTUS. IF THEY DON’T DEMAND THE RECORDS, THEN CUT THEM OFF, NO RECORDS = NO MONEY = NO VOTE = YOUR FREE RIDE IS OVER.

THE CORE ISSUE IS SIMPLE: THERE ARE NO BACKGROUND RECORDS THAT SUPPORT PELOSI’S VALIDATION AND VERIFICATION THAT OBAMA WAS ELIGIBLE TO BE POTUS. WHO CARES HOW THIS HAPPENED OR HOW SHE GOT AWAY WITH IT, ITS DONE, NOW WE MUST FIX IT. RESTATED: THERE ARE NO BACKGROUND RECORDS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN THAT SUPPORT OBAMA IS ELIGIBLE UNDER THE U.S. CONSTITUTION TO BE POTUS. OBAMA HAS A TEAM OF LAWYERS WORKING 24×7 TO MAKE SURE THAT NO BACKGROUND RECORDS ARE MADE PUBLIC. THERE IS AN EXECUTIVE ORDER THAT OBAMA PUT INTO LAW ON THE 1ST DAY BEING POTUS THAT FORBIDS THE RELEASE OF ALL OF HIS BACKGROUND RECORDS. THIS IS A CRIME. DEMAND THE RELEASE OF ALL BACKGROUND RECORDS NOW.

U.S. CITIZENS ARE COMPLICIT IN THIS CRIME. THEY ARE ALLOWING OBAMA AND PELOSI TO MAKE DRAMATIC RADICAL CHANGES TO THE ENTIRE OPERATION OF THIS NATION, AND WORSE, THEY ARE ALLOWING THEIR SOLDIERS TO BE IN HARMS WAY UNDER A POTUS THAT HAS NOT PROVIDE ANY BACKGROUND DOCUMENTS THAT SHOW HE IS LEGALLY ELIGIBLE.

U.S. MEDIA IS COMPLICIT IN THIS CRIME. THEY HAVE PARTICIPATED IN INTIMIDATION AND MASS-MIND MANIPULATION IN AN ATTEMPT TO HIDE THE FACT THAT THEY PARTICIPATED IN THIS TREASON UPON THE CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY.

U.S. ELECTED OFFICIALS ARE ALL COMPLICIT IN THIS CRIME. THEY KNOW BETTER, THEY TOOK AN OATH OF OFFICE, AND HAVE BREACHED THAT OATH OF OFFICE. THEY SHOULD HAVE NEVER ALLOWED THIS TRAVESTY TO GO DOWN. THESE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT ARE THE MOST TO BLAME.

STOP TODAY BEING A PART TO THIS CRIME. ITS SIMPLE. ITS FAST. ITS EASY. JUST DO ONE THING NOW AND UNTIL THE TRUTH IS IN THE OPEN: DEMAND THE RELEASE OF THE BACKGROUND RECORDS AND ALL DOCUMENTS USED BY PELOSI. CALL, EMAIL, FAX, SEND LETTERS, SCREAM IF YOU HAVE TO, JUST DO IT, AND DON’T DELAY, DO IT NOW…PEOPLE THIS IS ABOUT YOUR CHILDREN AND YOUR GRANDCHILDREN, THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT PLAYING GAMES, WAKE UP BEFORE ITS TOO LATE!

dina little   April 1st, 2010 - 6:16 pm

I already did. All my political money goes to American life league.

hempstead1944   April 1st, 2010 - 6:59 pm

Regrettably, he is right…..Republicans are same as Dems beneath the facade of conservative talk. Need proof? How about Lindsey Graham, John McCain, Olympia Snow, Arlen Specter….oops, he removed the facade, Charlie Crist ( is it t or p ) oh well, you get my drift…….

Jay   April 1st, 2010 - 7:08 pm

The RNC called me last night for a donation. I told them no way–not until they started acting like the party of Reagan and espousing conservative values. We debated for about 10 minutes when he finally admitted that he hears this complaint all the time. They’d better start listening!

sage   April 1st, 2010 - 7:19 pm

Already stopped giving them money a long time ago, they are going to have to prove themselves effective slaves to ever get another dollar.

Billy   April 1st, 2010 - 7:42 pm

Hey Jay,

Which of Reagan’s top three “conservative values” did you admire the most?

1. He invented the permanent national debt and the permanent national tax burden which we are still paying to this day.

2. He knowingly sold weapons to terrorists and then lied about it endlessly, only to apologize when he ran out of lies.

3. He supported and granted amnesty for pretty much all illegal aliens.

Yes, I know this is going to be a tough choice because you had no idea what Reagan actually did in office until this very moment. Above are Reagan’s most significant accomplishments — the Reagan top three. Pick your favorite and get back to us.

Carolynn   April 1st, 2010 - 8:13 pm

Mr. Perkins didn’t have to go on CNN to rub it into the RNC. Tony just gave the libs a big piece of candy that I’m sure they are going to suck on for days — thanks *-hole.

As a Catholic I resent the Evengelicals like Tony Perkins pushing the Republican Parrty around. The bottom line is these people want the GOP to fight for DOMA and against gay marriage which I think is a big loser for the GOP with most people under 35 having no problems with same sex marriage. The GOP can’t afford to lose young voters.

Where was Tony Perkins telling people not to support Bart Stupak???? How come he did not come out with a big speech that’s there’s tax payer funder abortion in HC and don’t support the DNC.

Tony Perkins –OUT OF LINE.

buford   April 2nd, 2010 - 8:19 pm

Looks like this guy is going to run for the President. I would vote for him in a heart beat so far. I love everything he says, So far. This is what we need to run the country. Vote for him in 2012

Calvin&Hobbes   April 3rd, 2010 - 12:40 am

The RNC needs to rid itself of the RINOs like John McCain, Lindsay Graham and others.

Otherwise, we might as well just give it all up to the Democrats and say goodbye to our country as we know it.

hypocrites   April 3rd, 2010 - 7:03 am

The ‘holier than thous’ are at it again. These mortals who can done judgment on another. Tony Perkins and his cronies are the prime example of the slandering and criticism of one’s spiritual and family values. ‘Perfection in the raw’ is who he sees in the reflection in the mirror. Keep dreaming.

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