I received an email asking for donations from the National Republican Senatorial Committee today. Now that they’re pretty much under the control of McCain, I did what any self-respecting maverick supporter of his would do.
I hit the Delete key.
Still, while it’s imminently satisfying to do my part in making the proper sort of maverick donations to something Senator McCain controls, it does have some practical ramifications. There are Congressional and Senate candidates who have not yet been yanked into The Way of The Maverick, and are thus to be punished with your mundane, ordinary support and mine. However, if you give to the NRSC or NRCC, they’ll give ordinary donations to maverick RINO candidates, and honor the ordinary candidates with maverick donations they don’t deserve. In 2006, they gave millions in an attempt to save the seat of Lincoln Chafee, while letting ordinary candidates Rick Santorum and George Allen reap the maverick sweetness of defeat.
This is unacceptable, of course. McCain is a maverick politician, and only deserves the finest in maverick power over the national Republican party apparatus. How then do you give him his just rewards for all of his tireless maverick leadership? It’s simple. Take all of the national Republican party organizations McCain now controls, like the NRSC, NRC, and the NRCC, and bypass them.
The ordinary conservative grassroots McCain despises are the bulk of the fundraising and energy for the party, which they demonstrated early in his presidential run. To give McCain his maverick power, we simply insure that he can’t lay his hands on that energy. If enough of us do this, McCain will find himself at the head of organizations that can no longer help him because their resource bases have been mavericked. This will result in him complimenting the newly made maverick grassroots in codespeak over and over again. He might even honor us by Speaking The Profanity in Loud Tones in our general directions, though he would never do that because of his CALM AND EVEN TEMPERAMENT, YOU CHICKENS&^T!
How you do it is simple. Instead of donating to the committees, who don’t understand how to act in the new maverick paradigm, you personally punish ordinary conservative politicians who actually stand up for your values by sending them ordinary donations directly. You then inform them they are among the unenlightened and deserved your ordinary monetary support, and that you’ll continue to punish them by helping fill their coffers so long as they don’t even consider sharing their war chests with the newly maverick national party. Should they do so, they will finally earn your maverick donations, and they won’t ever have to worry about receiving any more of your money again.
Of course, they will tough it out and continue to be ordinary politicians acting in the best interest of the country. They might even insult you with that most common insult in codespeak, “Thank you for your support”. Then, if they have the temerity to go to Washington and actually do their jobs properly, continue to punish them with ordinary direct donations, and insure that the National Republican Party mechanisms can only give out maverick donations until McCain is gone.
