Republican 419 Schemes, Cont'd

It's pretty hilarious that Michelle Malkin's secret weapon, the candidate who was going to stick it to that traitor and coward Jack Murtha, is one of the useful idiots propping up BMW Direct's Republican thievery project:

Lt. Col. William Russell is a clean-cut Army veteran who served in Iraq, the Gulf War and at the Pentagon on 9/11, according to a campaign Web site.

Malkin claims there's been a "great media wall of silence around Russell's upstart campaign." OK, let's break that silence and take a close look.

In the most recent quarter Russell raised $669,534, almost all from out-of-state donors who presumably are on BMW Direct's list of self-styled conservatives with a good track record of responding to direct-mail fundraising.

At the same time, he spent $442,990, almost all of it on expenses related to the direct mail effort and paid to BMW Direct and its affiliates (some of which share the same downtown Washington office).

The only expenses that appear to be spent on an actual campaign totaled about $20,000 for Web site design, a low-budget video and a campaign consultant based in Pennsylvania rather than Washington.

He reports having $269,953 in cash on hand. But he also reports debts totaling $242,521 -- almost all for direct mail expenses to BMW Direct and its vendors.

So that leaves him only about $27,431 ahead -- not much for a guy who's raised a total of nearly $1 million this election cycle.

Hilarious. Republicans really do treat their supporters like complete suckers. And they come back over and over again. La Malkin has responded to this with crickets, so far. Wonder if she got any BMW Direct kickbacks for talking up one of their "heroes"?