RNC Beats DNC in April Fundraising; New DNC Chair Can't Compare to Dynamic Howard Dean
Rather startling since the Democratic Party was the winner in the presidential election year and has a majority in Congress.
Is the DNC slacking off?
Susie Madrak at Crooks and Liars has this: "So what's the deal, DNC? What the hell's going on? This is no time to rest on our laurels:
Perhaps Governor Tim Kaine the nominal DNC chairman is too busy raising money for his PAC to worry about the DNC.Much attention has been paid to the Democratic political juggernaut, and to the weaknesses of the GOP in general and the RNC in particular.
You wouldn't know it from their respective April fundraising numbers: The RNC outraised the DNC by $1.3 million.
The earlier rationale for the DNC's weak fundraising had been that Governor Kaine was taking care of business in Virginia, but that legislative session ended in February.
The RNC raised $5.4 million in contributions April, giving the committee $24.4 million on hand.
The DNC, in the same month, raised $4.4 million, leaving it with $9.1 million on hand.
Between the President of the United States and his massive list, you'd expect Democrats to have a real advantage in this category, but it hasn't taken hold, at least not yet.
Kaine is more DINO than Dem and the wrong choice for DNC chair; but perhaps that's what the Obama administration wants, but the reality is Kaine is not even an optimum figurehead.
As Glenn Hurowitz wrote at Huffington Post last August: "Not only had he just said he favored so-called "right to work" (hat tip Matt Stoller) laws that make it nearly impossible for workers to exercise their rights to form a union, he also recently gave into pressure from Dominion Power to hike electricity rates on Virginians to pay for the construction of a massive, new polluting coal-fired power plant."
Governor Kaine is also opposed to women's reproductive rights and an ardent supporter of Bush's Iraq invasion and occupation, having compared Virginians Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson to the Iraq "cause" to the consternation of true Democrats.
He's not exactly a real Democrat but more a Blue Dog DINO.
Kaine was supposedly among the candidates on the final short list for VP (like another DINO, Evan Bayh) which, if true, says a lot about the wisdom and real Democratic Party bono fides of Caroline Kennedy and Eric Holder leading Obama's search committee.
It also speaks volumes about Obama's apparent propensity to choose not the best and brightest but mainly revolving door corporatist Clintonites, Bushite Republicans, and DINO aka GOP lites for high level positions which his awful choices for his economic team, for example, show as does picking DINO, Tim Kaine, as DNC chair.
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