The Grand Grift

I'm not going to claim that all fundraising efforts on The Left are pure and decent, but Republican/conservative fundraising has been known to be a big scam for decades. Nothing new.

The calls to oust Republican leaders in Congress did not come from Democrats. They came from conservative websites and bloggers who have helped stoke a grass-roots rebellion to make Congress more conservative, a fevered continuation of the six-year Tea Party movement.

But these politically charged appeals to conservatives around the country were often accompanied by a solicitation for money, and the ultimate beneficiaries, records suggest, are the consultants who created the campaigns rather than the causes they are promoting.