It's gotta be hard, pretending to serve two masters:
The National Republican Congressional Committee quietly deleted a fundraising page Saturday that took aim at one of its largest donors, the parent company of Bud Light, Anheuser-Busch.
The NRCC's backpedaling follows conservative calls for a boycott of the beer company after it partnered with transgender TikTok personality Dylan Mulvaney.
On Saturday morning, the powerful committee that provides support to Republican congressional campaigns blasted out a tweet calling for supporters to donate to the NRCC and, in exchange, be given a custom drink koozie.
But shortly after it was posted around 9:30 a.m., the tweet was taken down. Later on Saturday afternoon, the corresponding fundraising page was also nixed.
"‘This Beer Identifies as a Water' Koozie Claim your LIMITED-EDITION Koozie!" the now-deleted WinRed fundraising page said, copies of which were obtained by The Daily Beast. (The "water koozie" fundraiser page now redirects to a general "Stand with House Republicans" contribution page.) "Woke companies making you feel like drinking?" the fundraiser continued, using Bud Light's iconic blue writing. "Then this limited-edition koozie is perfect for you! Just chip in $10 to CLAIM YOUR LIMITED-EDITION KOOZIE!"
Why would the GOP committee delete a tweet and product that 99% of their voter base would support?
Well, not to offend their rich corporate donors, of course (you know, the people who really matter in politics).
The decision to reverse course is almost certainly a reaction to the reality that the parent company behind Bud Light is a major donor to the group — and comes after Donald Trump Jr. urged an end to a boycott of the "conservative-leaning" beer. In the 2022 cycle alone, Anheuser-Busch and its employees gave the NRCC $464,505.
The Daily Beast says a "GOP operative" – AKA a squishy leftist who still believes in God – seconded that opinion to the outlet.
Here's the thing: America isn't great because of its iconic brands. I could care less if Bud Light, Coca-Cola, or McDonald's disappeared tomorrow. Those things came into existence because America is great, not the other way around.
The Left likes to criticize the GOP for taking corporate money (while ignoring the 95% of Western companies that heavily donate to woke ESG policy and leftist candidates), and there's some truth to that. But what makes the GOP worse than their Democrat counterparts is that the latter takes corrupt money and uses it to gain power that furthers their convictions. The GOP takes money to be a Benedict Arnold and sell their voters down the river.
I'm a conservative who actually wants to conserve things and believes in our republican system of government, but I've never been a member of the Republican Party. Now, more than ever, I have no notion to change that.
