DNC: RNC Can't Handle Its Own Budget, Let Alone Nation's

stein@huffingtonpost.com | HuffPost Reporting
First Posted: 07-26-10 07:01 PM | Updated: 07-26-10 08:28 PM

Because there has been a  continuing series of stories about money troubles at the Republican National Committee, Democratic partisans have begun trotting out a new campaign theme. If the GOP can't manage its own finances, why hand it the government checkbook?

"If you are running on fiscal discipline and responsibility and you have the problems the RNC has, it is a pretty big symbol of some problems they'd have [for governance]," the DNC's Jennifer O'Malley Dillon said towards the end of a panel discussion moderated by the Huffington Post over the weekend.

The DNC has been in making such a case since scandals and controversy began surfacing around RNC Chairman's Michael Steele's fiscal mismanagement.

When the RNC was caught spending $2,000 at a lesbian-themed nightclub, the DNC pledged to remind voters that the self-proclaimed

party of fiscal responsibility" had "not only spent money freely and frivolously on useless expenditures... but then tried to hide the debt they financed their spending spree with from the public.

When an internal RNC probe found that the committee was actually losing money in its recruitment of big donors, a DNC spokesman scoffed at the notion that Steele could now provide "advice on financial regulatory reform for the whole country."

How well such an argument plays to the voting public at large is an open question.

See the rest of the article at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/26/next-dnc-attack-line-rnc_n_659916.html

Subscribe to the Rightardia feed: feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/IGiu

Netcraft rank: 14896
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://rightardia.blogspot.com