A reader’s reply to the RNC
Reader Bill B. sent me two postcards he sends back in any postage paid envelope sent to him by RNC fund-raisers. It’s the response they deserve:
No points for you!
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Heh I feel the same way. For over a month now I have been contacting GOP leaders about going back to work for the party to help defeat the democrats
The reply ? Im sent endless emails asking me to do worthless volunteer work that does little party building or is largely ineffective or I get asked to contribute money.
In other words Im still ignored and still treated like free cheap labor or an ATM.
There is no leadership in the GOP only elitism that has always been there.
Bill B,
I couldn’t have put it better myself. Well done Sir!
That means you as well McCain campaign stop having 20 somethings call me to do work for them because they are too lazy to do anything other than make phone calls.
Sorry, I already gave all my money to my landlord… he is a Republican, does that count?
LOL … the whole John McCain/brownie points scheme is so pathetic and it cannot possibly be mocked enough. Please keep it up.
Sincerely,
A fellow “MDS” sufferer*
* MDS sufferer - someone who has the audacity to criticize McCain instead of just “shutting up and getting on board.”
Good response Bill … as for me … I just send the empty envelopes back just like I do with all the junk mail I get … they have to pay for that envelope getting mailed whether it’s empty or full …
I should have scanned or photocopied the the questionnaire from the RNC that I sent back to them with my Sharpie’d-in comments.
I’ve been tearing them up. Now I know better
BSR
Testicular fortitude in the GOP? That’s a laugh, I honestly think the women should take over the GOP, they’ll be more aggressive in passing conservative policy.
I always answer the “survey” sent by the RNC or the McCain campaign, including the usual request for money. “-0-” followed by an explanation similar to sentiments expressed in the postcard. It is clear that the survey responses are ignored along with the failure to raise money.
Broken Record….. asks…….
LESSER OF TWO EVILS……
Anyone.
ANYONE!!!!!
Tom Coburn wrote a good article in the WSJ today about how the Party is in such disaray and basically clueless. Everything sounded great until the last paragraph when he said that McCain was the guy to lead the Party back to greatness. Gez, even when they acknowledge that they’re screwed up, they prove positively how clueless they really are. Now if the guy had said that McCain was not the guy to lead the Party, there would be hope for them.
It looks like Bill will be sending the RNC postcards for many years to come.
I’m thinking the guy’s that bought 43 are willing to buy Mc895 and low he is now well healed and having his pockets soon stuffed by a Bush for show appearance. In private and in secret as much a possible. No change here just big denomination bills.
i.e., Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin
I got two phone calls today, one from the GOP Senatorial Committee & one from the McCain folks. The poor guy with the Senate comm. about the recent farm bill, and the McCain guy got little enthusiasm. It is a good thing I hadn’t heard about his comment about corporate profits, or he’d have gotten an earful too!
I’m beginning to feel like we’d be better off with Obama. What’s McCain going to get done with a majority of donks in both houses of congress? Certainly no conservative judges, just THEIR business, that’s what. In four years,they will have messed things up so bad, we can get rid of them all and get some folks who will clean things up.
sheesh! And I used preview too. The guy with the senate committee got an earful about the recent passing of the pork laden farm bill for rich farmers, with food costs skyrocketing…hands not keeping up with head.
Feel free to add my name on any future mailings.
I got push-polled before they started hitting me up for money. You know, “do you want Hillary or Obama in the WH etc., etc.”
I answered truthfully, then proceeded to give the poor girl a polite earful about Juan Hernandez, border control, so called “global warming,” the Swiftboat Vets and what I thought about McCain’s opinions on each.
Then I told her that the money will be forthcoming when the party becomes conservative again instead of a functionally ratarded Democrat wannabe party.
They are not listening. It is not even worth our time anymore to respond. After the 2006 thumpin’, they just lurched further left. It is a return to the pre-Reagan/1994 mindset. Conservatives are the RINOs now.
100% correct. Even when it seems they actually get it, they take away the incorrect message. How can they be so clueless? IMHO, if the GOP would simply denounce amnesty or any derivation of amnesty (aka comprehensive immigraiton reform) and adopt a platform of attrition, they would immediately bring back over half (probably 80%) the members who left them. It is VERY low hanging fruit. We can always work on them for spending and giveaways in the future. But they just refuse to do it. So disaray will lead to dissolution of the party altogether.
Thirteen28 #5, I suffer from the same thing. I just can’t vote for McCain and the end of the Republican Party.
Hey….don’t just return the empty envelopes….put something really disturbing inside….you can think of something that will leave a more lasting impression than an empty envelope.
BSR
I have also been tried and found wanting by the RNC. Five times I have told them that I would contribute if they would “become Republicans again.” They have’nt and I didn’t.
It’s sad but a majority of the Republicans in office have given up on conservative values, both fiscal and social, and lost it’s core support. I see no leadership.
Do you realize how easy it would be to beat the socialist Democrats if ANYONE on the Republican side had a clue?
It was two years ago the Dems were making promise after promise and it got them into office. Since they took over the house and senate they have done virtually nothing. They have failed to do anything other than tie up the government with wasted time and spending. Their ratings are terrible. They are pitiful. Yet, the Republicans drop the ball over and over again and make it easy for them.
That sounds like what I have too..
Put some grass and some roots in the envelopes and mail them back.
# 6 DesertLover
We should send monopoly money to the RNC, since the Republican Senators spend our tax dollars like drunken sailors…
sicsempertyrannis
Maby it’s time for a new party. If someone ran on a platform of personal responsibility, government not being there to fix everyone’s problems, and that government service is a temp job, I’ll sign up and donate.
That’s a brilliant idea.
Or send ads for bars located in harbor towns so they can have plenty of places in which to spend like…
Well when you put it like that, sign me up for THE GREATER OF TWO EVILS!!!
LOL — I sent my contribution form back and said I spent it all all extra gasoline costs and air fare for our vacation. Suggested Juan send the next mailing to Democrat voters.
Again if you want to get their attention, you have to flash the dollar signs, and so far if they are going to see dollar signs from the left, that’s the direction they’ll be looking, however during the blog post about the American Families agenda, I did point out that if all the folks who posted their displeasure with the GOP had donated $25 at the time of my post, the RNC would have made $35,000, but I guess that’s just chump change to them.
TEEEEEEEJ
Just got my weekly “urgent e-message_ from Mitch McConnell (sp).
The GOP is in an URGENT mode–
Too many years of :
OFFERING THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS!!!!!!!
# 31 TT
OK
# 31 TT
Which one?
New party, anyone? The chumps at the RNC aren’t getting it.
I give to the r’s in dc every 4/15. They are doing a dandy job with my ‘donation’ as are the d’s. Until I see they can ‘manage’ my money, no more to them.
L
let’s look at what centrist, liberal, moderate RINO republicans have brought us.
if you want to act like a democrap, then don’t put an R next to your name and pretend.
now we have the democraps moving far left, and the Repubicans moving center left.
the Right stuff has given way to the Wright stuff.
the shining city on the hill has given way to a sanctuary city in the shadows.
tear down that wall has given way to “we can’t build that border fence”.
the war on terrorism has given way to a surrender to government nannyism.
individual responsibility and liberty have given way to group identity and ethnic lobbying.
a sad state of affairs indeed.
Christian Soldier beat me to it..
which is the lesser of two evils?
I’m not asking for much.. not the same ol’ ‘they say up, I say down’ bit..
but I’m not looking for someone who will go hand in hand skipping through the daisies with the opposing team either..
texas tiger even…
GOTTA start proof reading and hitting that #@%& preview button
I think they should have illegal immigrants doing the fund raising that Americans just don’t want to do. They can even change the name without throwing out the monogrammed towels - Reconquista National Committee.
I know I don’t want to help the Republicans. I’m a businessman. They abandoned my core values a long time ago.
I hope your remark is tongue-in-cheek. If not, I consider
bama the greater of two evils.
Nah. When my kids misbehave, I discipline them. I don’t drive them out to the country and kick them out of the car.
Not to threadjack or anything, but…
If we could all climb into our Deloreans and set the timer to November 2, 1976, who would everyone vote for?
Gerald Ford (RINO-MI) or
Jimmy Earl Carter (D-GA)?
Texas Tiger,
I don’t consider the RNC to be poorly disciplined kids. A more correct analogy is firing an incompetent employee.
Look at it as America being a restaurant and you hired the RNC as a night manager. You find out they started hiring illegal aliens in the kitchen and start promoting menus that come from a competing diner. Then you find out they overspent your food and liquor budget. Then if you say something to them about it they tell you your racist and should keep your mouth shut. Would you get a new night manager or just stick with them because they are reliable?
I’m a natural born Texan and respect your posts Tiger, but have to part ways with you on this one.
As far as Ford and Carter, its the same thing as we got today. Looking in a toilet and picking the least offensive turd. The country needs a courtesy flush.
when the leaders of a party REFUSE to LISTEN, and refuse to respond to the wishes of the millions of conservative grassroots supporters, then those people have only one choice, to STOP supporting that party with their money and votes.
don’t be a quisling follower of a quisling candidate.
You know, it would be ashamed to tape a brick to those prepaid envelops before sending them back. Especially if you wrote “use this brick in building the wall”. Just saying…….
Reads like what I typically put in any RNC postage paid return envelop they sent out.
I’ve been doing it for several years, before 2004, as I recall.
Seems all they want from the grassroots is $, not opinions.
(1) I think the situation is a hair different. The only candidate to replace the current night manager has history of poisoning customers. To further complicate matters, we’re out in Jeff Davis County and no one is responding to our Help Wanted ads.
(2) I think you nailed it. I remember Ford vs. Carter, but was too young to participate. No doubt Ford was mediocre. But if I could climb into a DeLorean, my first act would be to run over Jimmuh…several times.
Oh, for a candidate that would run on a platform that said:
-Close the borders and deport, deport, deport.
-Drill for oil EVERYWHERE and build the refineries to process it.
-Build nuclear power plants.
-Quit wasting our might and money on the rest of the world…
-Get the government out of MY life, i.e. no inheritance tax on MY money!
Roger that Tiger.
Jimmy is the father of modern terrorism.
Jerry was a fine football player in college, but he wore his helmet cinched down too tight, too long, and probably blocked a few too many punts.
The Ford claim to fame was not stepping aside from his appointed position as president after the Nixon resignation, to let Reagan take the convention, thus bringing in Carter and postponing the Reagan revolution. When he did the quid pro quo of the Nixon pardon, he became unelectable. Whether that pardon was right or wrong, the consequences were obvious to everyone. But Jerry had to satisfy his ego.
I had general respect for the man until I read his memoirs to be released after his passing so he could cheap shot everyone from the grave. Turns out he wasn’t much different than Carter after all.
Thanks for the chat Tiger.
How about putting the label from a can of corn in the RNC envelope, maybe a picture of Ronald Reagan, or maybe rant a bit an include 2 pennies.
I was just wondering. A lot of folks have said they’re not giving to the Republican Party now because it no longer reflects the desires of its base, but somehow the Party and the candidates keep rolling along. Why? Could it be big cat donors and the Federal Election Program that gives money to Presidential candidates? Maybe we should start cutting off those sources as well. Let the companies that donate to the RNC know they will be in the crosshairs for boycotts and close examination, and let the candidates know that we want the Election program repealed.
A couple of election cycles ago, when I got mailings from the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee (or whatever the correct name is), I wrote, “Not a penny until you start doing your jobs!” on the donation card and sent it back.
It took years before they stopped sending them to me.
They still aren’t doing their jobs.
RE: post #51
I second that Alaskan
Tiger-I was around for LOTEvils : Ford:
Amnesty ‘86 (my favorite modern Pres. blew it and admitted it)
Bush HW : no new taxes ;
mid ’90s R control of Congress (both houses); more PORK than ever w/ bridges going to no-where;
R. betrayal of men of honor (James Rogan comes to mind and et. al.) during Clinton impeachment;
Hulffington stuffed in by CRP - now we have Feinstein:
Arnold - CRP-GOP Lesser of Two Evils…
Shall I go on…….
Slippery slide to the left has done us NO good….
# 44- right on!!
# 50- thanks for the up-date on Ford-
we knew there was little difference goin in …
# 51 Alaskan: definitely something we should think about.
I usually just say something like “…if you are running a campaign on democrap planks, call democraps for money…”
The concept of Lesser of Two Evils is the GREATER EVIL and has been foisted upon us time and again…this country is slipping farther LEFT ;
the R party is now the old D. party and the D party is Communist - Socialist and …………Where do we go from here?!!!
if everyone sent them some of these it may get media attention.
Mars
I send them a letter each time they have the audacity to send me a postage paid envelope. This is the latest:
Dear Tim Morgan;
“…, but I have to ask… Have you given up?”
In a word, YES!
I’m sick and tired of belonging to a party that won’t rise to defend itself or to stand with the Conservative Americans who still believe in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
I’m tired of Senators and Congresspeople who pander to special interests such as the recently passed Farm bill, the accepted invitation to pander – I mean – speak before La Raza (The Race), wimpy senators who condemn speaking out by a state GOP when a candidate’s wife states on the campaign trail that she’s “not proud of America.”
I’m tired of my state senator who now claims that he “gets it” in relation to open borders/amnesty while still employing Juan “Dual citizenship” Hernandez or openly pandering to the “global warming” crisis crowd, or opposing water boarding in extreme cases of suspected terrorists.
I will be leaving the position of President unvoted in November, rather than vote in a Democrat “lite”. I will evaluate and support other candidates based on what their positions are, whether they are Republican or Democrat.
When your party finally grows some spine and shows some testicular fortitude, I may consider coming back. Until then you can color me an Independent who’s frantically looking for a party that supports MY values. Maybe, by 2010, you will have woken up.
I don’t think the people at the RNC know how to read!
PS Attach the envelope to the RNC to a BRICK…since they are as thick as a brick!
Saying the Republican party left us instead of we leaving them, is a considerate way to put it, but I think the situation needs to be described in blunter terms. Let not be gentle about this — they kicked us out the door, or maybe a better way to put (hat tip to Obama) they stuck us up in the attic. We are the crazy uncle no one wants to discuss, unless in whispers:
“All he does is cackle about Reagan and lower taxes and fiscal responsibility and how global warming is BS. God, it’s so embarrassing! Honey, he’s scaring the kids; he’s scaring me. None of our friends want to come around any more. We’re never be popular. Why doesn’t he just die and leave us his money?”
That’s how the Republican Establishment views us.
Did you all just get your Presidential Trust card form the RNC? And picture of George and Laura Bush smiling from the entry of Air Force 1? Shall we send more $$$$$$$$$$$$
I just voted today in the Idaho primary elections for the GOP. I had a choice of the grumpy old man, everyone’s crazy uncle Ron Paul, or uncommitted before going to the write-in line. I went with uncommitted and I hope many of my friends and neighbors did too not that it will matter much to the RINOs leading the GOP into oblivion. No longer will I vote for the lesser of two evils!
This is a response to the last letter/survey the RNC sent me. I have not received another.
Senator McConnell,
Sir, I have sent along this letter with the survey because there obviously is not enough room for me to properly speak to my dissatisfaction with my party and those whom I voted into office. Not to mention my penmanship is lacking. Conservatism is the current barometer for our party this political season and sadly our candidate is not nor has the Republican Party acted with conservative principals. Over spending, refusal to speak plainly about the issues and the lack of effort to actually nominate a true conservative, are all reasons I am refusing to donate to the “cause”. I believe my elected officials should “earn” my trust and then my cash. Do that and then I will lend my support. So what I expect my party to do is very simple.
1. Go on the offensive against Democratic undermining of the war effort. Their display this week was appalling as was their ignorance when questioning General Petraus. Counter the collective liberal medias agenda against our right to protect ourselves and kill our enemies. Remind your employers, the American people, why we need to defend this nation.
2. Quit pandering to special interest and corporate lobbyist when it comes to illegal immigration. Stop federal dollars to any state that does not enforce immigration laws as well as punish employers who hire an illegal. You don’t need to build a fence if the magnate is decimated. They will go home. Catch and release? Nope. Catch and deport. McCain says it is impossible to deport all of the illegal aliens. Maybe that’s true. But if we start with some then maybe the rest will understand that our hospitality is not free and one must follow the proper procedures to gain access to this great nation. My in-laws came here legally, so can everyone else.
3. Not only should tax cuts be made permanent but also the “fair tax” should be made a fixture of our party. I understand this scares many people in power, as it should. After all, when you free the populace from the binds of government, the populace once again controls the government. Earmarks should be eradicated. Good luck with that one as democratic handouts are how they retain office. The pyramid scheme known, as social security should be reformed. I am 38 and it is obvious I will never see a dime of what I pay in.
4. Conservatives, true conservatives, believe in personal-responsibility and self reliance when it comes to taking care of ones self and their family. We have allowed the liberal agenda to destabilize and subjugate portions of our society all in an effort to maintain power. Remember give a man a fish/teach a man to fish? Well guess what? It’s time many Americans start learning to fish. STOP, bailing out financial institutions with my money. STOP bailing out homeowners who made stupid decisions with my money. STOP the damn spending!
5. While I am on this rant. Let capitalism work and demand democrats quit trying to socialize our nation. Their ideology fails every time it is tried. Please for God sake don’t let it get so bad we see another misery index. I am not so young I do not remember the Carter years. Gee what great times those were. Universal health care is a big sell this election cycle. Get on the ball and counter it with the realities and cost.
6. It’s time we start challenging the Global Warming messiahs with fact, not joining them like our current candidate obviously has. We have enough oil and oil shale in our own lands to become free from OPEC. It’s time someone has the balls to act and demand we become independent from foreign oil. Alternative fuels are nice but the reality is we need oil and new refinery capacity plain and simple. Get rid of the red tape and expense oil companies must go through to build infrastructure and extract product. I am not one of these pariahs who decry big oil and their profits. I say good for them! Damn it that’s what our country is, a bastion of capitalism were making money is the idea. Of course we should seek alternative fuel sources but leaving our nation in a precarious position because of environmentalist wacko’s is not what I would call a good idea.
7. Stop President Bushes attempts to further move us towards a North American Union. Look, I agree with free trade as long as it is fair. I do not believe in globalization nor the attempts by some to have us give away our sovereignty via treaties that would leave us under the oh so corrupt auspices of the United Nations. Our President is a globalist moderate. You and your colleagues should have been challenging him.
8. It’s time for grass roots support of conservative candidates on the local and state level. We are out here, help us get elected. By taking back local offices from liberals we can better support and build the foundations of conservatism and return this nation to it’s former glory.
9. Above all you and your colleagues must espouse the conservative agenda and go on the offensive. You must stop the political moderation and call democrats what they are and educate the masses on their desire to socialize our nation. They are socialist and need to be labeled as such.
There are many other issues that need attention as well. Honestly I gave serious consideration to with holding my vote this election cycle. However as much as I am displeased with the candidate I cannot in good conscious allow a liberal to get into office. I will vote republican as I always have. This time. But rests assured, if and when McCain takes office I expect you and your associates to make sure he does as promised, and lead as a conservative. Insist on strict constructionist judges, tax reform, fair trade policies, defense of the second amendment, defense of the unborn and the zealous pursuit of the war on terror and Islamic fascism. Your letter speaks of a generation of democratic leadership should we lose. Should he be a one term President because he failed the conservative base, that will all but be assured.
Regards,
Stephen M. Dines.
Third/Fourth party? Get a real conservative movement started. Get out and vote, but not for the choices, write in your candidate. When the GOP sees a record number of write ins, maybe they’ll take notice, especially when they lose their jobs.
TEEEEEEJ
I had my party affilliation changed. I am now registered as an Independant. I fell the same way as William. The party left us. We did not leave the party.
LOL.
Maybe you guys who ‘the republicans left us!!!!!’ can write in Ross Perot’s name.
Ought to work about as well as it did before Bill Clinton was elected.
SDINES you went to all that effort in that long letter to let them off the hook? any idea how lame that is?
frankly it is voters like you who continue to prop up this worthless wreck of a quisling party. thanks for nothing.
yet you are still going to vote for Maverick…
that will show them..
As a former contributor to Republican causes I am deluged with requests for donations. I have not gone so far as printing up anything fanciful but I do respond with a brief note that I will resume contributing to the Republican party when it nominates a Republican.
I’ve been scrawling across any and all appeals for well over a year now “I’ll continue to contribute and support when this party starts representing ME again” and have told the same to any phone solicitations. And I ALWAYS mail them back in the postage paid envelopes…..I’ve paid them for years now, let them pay to get my message of dissatisfaction! Funny though, they never seem to get the message, just keep sending me more and more appeals. Do ya suppose they think I’ll get a warm, fuzzy moment and change my mind??????
Wow! It’s great to see Bill is still so active in trying to get Republicans to do the right thing. Having known of his activity over years, his postcards are not the result of a tantrum, but likely the result of seeing his hard work often mean nothing.
Thanks for what you have done for us Bill…from Farmington, WI.
I sent back 4 in one day, with Sharpie’d comments.
Their surveys were so lame, about 25 questions, all the same, but in different order.
In the area of donations, I wrote: “With diesel currently at $4.69 per gallon, you get nothing!”
At the time of the letter, yes. If you read the last comment you would notice that my intent is to give a “last chance” so to speak. At no time in history has a lesser of two evils been more relevant. I am not sure, regardless of how disgusted I am with our candidate, if our national security is worth risking to allow Obama in office. Bottom line that is the most important issue bar none. I will see who the man picks as VP. If he is smart he will pick someone like Jindal. My decision still remains fluid.
I can’t figure out the precise order (some ways are funnier than others) but here are the parts:
Fence sitting,
Fence stradling,
Wide stance,
Going Forward,
Messy End