See, money or funding, like air, is only important if you aren't receiving any.  It's an indisputable attention getter.

If that doesn't work with bringing the GOP back inline towards conservative principals, both on the state level as well as the national... then let it die.

In life with every door that closes another one of opportunity opens.  However, there is very little point in perpetuating causes that are tainted in self-serving goals that are in conflict of principals as representation.