Paul Ibrahim has an excellent post up on his blog right now that ties in very nicely to the RNC race. The title says it all: The Republican Party Will Get Our Money When It Becomes More Like the Club for Growth.

From Paul’s friend Nick’s letter:

As a deep red conservative, I will once again refrain from giving the RNC or any of its Republican sister agencies any money for 2009. The atrocious inability of the Republican Party’s leadership, if I may stretch a word, to whip its members into standing firm against the 700 billion dollar bailout is proof that for at least the 9th year in a row, it deserves no money from me or any other proponent of small government. As usual, the G.O.P. talks a good game of fiscal responsibility but succeeds in being the party only of slower government growth. Of managed illegal immigration. Of good-judges-when-convenient. No sir, once again The Club for Growth will be getting the money that might have gone to you, if only you had courageously stuck to the principles which over 50% of this nation will vote for repeatedly, if given the chance.

There is more and it gets better. Read the whole thing.

Comparing the Club for Growth to the GOP is a little difficult because the GOP has more issues on its plate than just economic policy, not that it handles those any better. Still if I had to find a organization that I wished the GOP would emulate on taxes, free trade, regulation, spending and monetary policy it would probably be the Club for Growth.

I fear that until the GOP is purged of its socialists they will not do much more than pay lip service to conservative principles.