I have always believed in putting my money – the very little that’s left of it – (it cost my a little over 50 bucks to fill my little VW Rabbit yesterday) where my mouth is. For that reason, even though I don’t earn nearly the money many of my friends do who did not leave a financially secure profession for teaching, I have been a long time contributor to the DNC. I truly want to see the Democrats in power – in the White House and in Congress – and I know that it costs money to win. You can be the best qualified candidate to come down the "pike" in years, but without money…well, you know the rest.
As I wrote a few days ago, I am truly disgusted with my party. We had – note the "had" – the opportunity to finally turn out Mr. Bush and his cronies, and to insure at least four years of a Democratic adminstration that might turn things around for America, domestically and internationally. But, we are blowing it, and I feel the money I contribute to the Party is going down some black hole that’s being adminstered by idiots who have no control over the candidates and their mouths. So, today when a fund raiser for the DNC called and asked me to increase my contribution from now until November, I refused — and I told her why. I have cut back on charitable contributions because I can’t afford as much as in the past and because I have seen that many of the charities misuse or waste the money. I will not give any more to my Party until the leadership of the Democratic Party shows a little control and shows me it knows how to lead and how to use the money I work so hard to earn.
Many fellow Democrats will probably attack me for bailing out on my candidates. They will acuse me of helping to get McCain elected, because we will run out of money long before the fat cats in the GOP. Maybe they’re right, but I am getting tired of bad investments, and right now — at least until we wake up and see what we are doing to oursleves – the DNC is a bad investment.