Open Letter to the RNC

I first started donating to the Republican party when Ronald Reagan ran for President. I was in college then at Stony Brook. From the fall of 1977 through 1982. The pathetic can’t do attitude of the Jimmy Carter 70’s was also part of my formative years. The misery index, double digit inflation, the odd-even day gasoline ration lines, Ayatollah Khomeini and the overthrow of the Shah of Iran and of course Walter Cronkite’s nightly news broadcasts where he kept the mounting daily tally of the humiliating 444 days of the Americans being held hostage by Iranian terrorists.

1980 was the first time I was able to vote in a presidential election. Despite the fear mongering media at the time trying to scare us all that Ronald Ray-Gun would start WWIII, somehow their Cool-Aid didn’t affect me. I saw Ronald Reagan as a man of vision, whose principled beliefs in individual freedom and achievement and uniquely American values inspired me to the very core. I believed the Republicans were the party that got it. The party that fought to uphold our freedoms, our Constitution, and the founding principles that made the United States the envy of the world. And I would show my support at the polls and with $25 contributions, even an occasional $100 when I could afford to.

Throughout the years, the RNC, the Republican Congressional Committee and even Republican organizations at the state were all beneficiaries of my modest donations.
It was important to make sure the Republicans had the tools to hold off the insidious encroachment of socialist policies of the Democrat left.

However after a great start with the Contract with America, Republicans began to lose their way. I started to notice that Republicans were often more interested in holding on to power than on operating on principle. Republicans became the party that would reach out with the olive branch and try to befriend the other side. Soon Congressional Republicans were opposing tax cuts, supporting illegal immigration and padding their budgets with pork and even proudly buying into the Global Warming hoax.

So last year, I decided that my donations would stop. I will no longer donate one red cent to the Republicans until they have demonstrated by actions that they are worthy of my after-tax dollars.

The money I used to give to Republicans, now goes to select organizations who have proven to me time and time again, that they have stood up for and will tirelessly continue to fight for their causes. So i donate to the NRA and the Heritage Foundation. The NRA does not sell out, or come up with bipartisan compromises to the 2nd Amendment. The Heritage Foundation dedicates itself to promoting Conservatism.

I’m not leaving the Republican party. You have left me. I’m still here, meanwhile I’ll leave on a Compact Fluorescent Light Bulb you have helped mandate on me, for you to find your way, in case you come back.