Republicans dial feverishly for dollars
One of the Republican Party’s fund-raising operations called my wife today to ask for $500, money that would get her “dinner with the President,” her name in an ad in the Wall Street Journal and a certificate that she could frame and hang in her office (shouldn’t they spend that money on rebuilding the party, and recruit and support candidates?).
There’s a Swedish comic book from the mid-1980’s called Socker-Conny in which the protagonist desperately tries to scrape together money for beer. In one panel he pleads “I’ve called all my friends…” to which a dark figure darkly replies “And now you’re calling your enemies.” Yes, my wife’s a life-long Democrat. A Bush hating, Clinton-loving Democrat.
But since many Republican donors reportedly are refusing to give any money as long as the White House and the Republican leaders in Congress keep pushing for amnesty for illegal aliens I suppose the party is left with little choice but to call liberal Democrats for financial support.
