GOP losers sore about millions that Republican senators still have on hand

RAW STORYPublished: Wednesday December 13, 2006

With tens of millions of dollars in cash on hand, Republican Senators returning to the 110th Congress expressed little regret over not providing more money to shore up the campaigns of their defeated colleagues this November, according to an article in The Hill.

The report, written by Brad Haynes, discusses the soft efforts of the National Republican Senatorial Committee to raise money to help out imperiled campaigns that ultimately turned the majority over to the Democrats. And most Republican Senators sitting on millions in their campaign warchests for 2008, or even 2010, showed little sympathy to the idea that they should have given more.

Senator John Cornyn of Texas said he had no regrets about only offering $50,000 out of the $2.8 million he had on hand at the end of the last reporting period, telling The Hill “They basically had everything they needed and money wasn’t a determining factor.”

But one prominent defeated incumbent, George Allen of Virginia, saw things differently. He remarked "Heck, when you lose a race as close as ours was, by three-tenths of one percent, it’s like a close football game when you lose by one point."

The full article can be accessed at The Hill's website.
An excerpt is provided below.