Mark DeMoss Can Take His GOP Money And Go Home

A major Evangelical figure is taking his check book and going home. He should take it and go to church, instead. Perhaps if he were doing his job in that regard, he wouldn't be relying upon the Republican Party to fight battles he evidently isn't equipped to win on his supposed home turf.

A prominent Evangelical figure and Republican donor says he will end his contributions to the organized Republican Party in reaction to the leaked fundraising presentation that advised using "fear" to solicit contributions and displayed an image of President Obama as the Joker from Batman.

Said presentation isn't just indicative of a culture within the RNC, as DeMoss asserts below. It's indicative of a mindset taken hold across the broader culture because DeMoss is apparently losing his own battle by not minding his flock. The GOP is tasked with winning battles out in the culture, not in DeMoss' echo chamber of a church mentality. And if he can't appreciate that while the country is melting down economically, then it's self-interest, not principle that's driving him on. If he thinks his cause will fare better enabling secular humanists to retain power, then he's a fool.

And speaking of self-interest. What I'd really like to know is what GOP figure is he close to who most likely helped to leak the damned presentation in the first place? Only an idiot would buy Ben Smith's assertion that it was leaked by a Democrat after being left in the hotel. Perhaps it went from a Republican to a Democrat meaning Smith was telling the truth. But I smell a rat, not some divine entity behind this nonsense. Someone must think the people watching are fools.

Care to confess, DeMoss? I hear it's good for the soul.

Mark DeMoss, who heads a major Christian public relations firm in Atlanta and served as a liaison to the Evangelical community for Mitt Romney in 2008, wrote Chairman Michael Steele yesterday that he was "ashamed" of the presentation, calling depictions of Obama, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Majority Leader Harry Reid "shameful, immature and uncivil, at best."

"I’m afraid the presentation is representative of a culture and mindset within the Republican National Committee," DeMoss, a past member of the RNC's "Eagle" program for top donors who gave the party $15,000 in 2008, wrote in the letter to Steele, which he shared with POLITICO. "Consequently, I will no longer contribute to any fundraising entity of our Party—but will contribute only to individual candidates I choose to support."

Comments

[FeFe]

Is it seven torched churches in Texas, numerous churches in Egypt set on fire while services being held and Christians killed by muslims, no churches allowed in Saudi Arabia, and still no arrest of those responsible for fire bombing Sarah Palin's church and the exits with children inside in Alaska. He isn't very good at Christian public relations or Godly to think money is the answer. Those who provide DeMoss with a living will be better served now they are aware he thinks he has special access with their money.

[wtfci]

The presentation was juvenile. Smith's source is horrible cover story though.

DeMoss is an important figure. Losing him is throwing away the chance to raise millions through his network.

Republicans need to take the high road and maintain strong decorum if they want to hold the independents that are voting for their candidates as well as draw in new ones.

[James]

"If he thinks his cause will fare better enabling secular humanists to retain power, then he's a fool."

Why are you afraid of secular humanists?

Why are you afraid of political discourse at something a tad later than the fifth grade level? If the answer is "winning," you are excused from recess.

Why do you think it is the responsibility of "pastor" to "mind his flock" when each of the flock are capable of independent thought and action, and are judged (if you buy into such things) accordingly?

This smacks of a pigheaded elitism that ignores that no one under the age of 40 is interested in the slightest in a 19th century agenda, or any kind of theocratic rule whatsoever.

You had better be listening to DeMoss. He will not be the first, because it's only going to get a LOT uglier if you think THIS passes for political discourse.

You will recall, before Rayguns, Demoss' ilk stayed home, and they will do it again.

[bishop]

A bit of an overreaction by DEmoss, but it was a weak effort, Why not use Obama's own words 'about fundamental transformatiom' Emmanuel's about wasted crisis, Van Jones, Xhavez fan Mark Lloyd, in stead
of very abstract things like 'fear'

[astonerii]

""Consequently, I will no longer contribute to any fundraising entity of our Party—but will contribute only to individual candidates I choose to support.""

Perfect. That is how it should work any ways. The entities always become corrupted and progressive. You have to pick individuals.

[daveinboca]

Gosh, one Republican donor who gave $15K to the RNC in '08 is going to divvy up among candidates instead and this is news.

Ben is turning into a complete tout/whore/shill for the DNC---period. He knows that a bunch of aspiring JournoList wannabes will use this as a lever to slingshot their own leftish pablum about Reps being abandoned by donors.

This is as meaningful and irrelevant as that book by Sam Tenenbaum called The Death of Conservatism that's lying in piles in the remainder bins of B&N & Borders...!