Dear RNC: What part of “NO” don’t you understand?
Reader Sarah sent me her response to the RNC survey she received yesterday.
I know this isn’t the only pushback the Big Labor-backing, Margaret Sanger Award recipient-funding, bailout cheerleader-supporting RNC is going to receive:
Yo, Michael Steele: What up?
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I wrote almost the identical words on mine.
They will never learn. They are part of the problem.
I’ll send money to individual candidates.
But, Michael “Tin Man” Steele, John “Specter Endorser” Cornyn, and the rest of the Republican “Leadership” won’t get the time of day from me.
If the Repubs stop pulling their drawers down and bending over every time a DemonRat sneezes then maybe they will get some money, until then, Happy Trails to You Repub Party.
I told them the same thing. Like many others I send my money directly to the candidate as it is the only way to guarantee that my money is used for true Reagan Conservatives. I also told them that they cannot rely on public dissaproval of what the Democrats are doing, that they need to come up with a Reagan Conservative plan for people to rally behind or they will have blown their chances in 2010.
I told the RNC the same thing, when they kept sending me all those fake “preference and interest” things. I said I donated to PALIN, not McCain, and when they grew a set and stood for something again, THEN they might get more money out of me. They keep sending crap anyway, I keep putting it in the trash.
Maybe they should launch another “listening” tour to explain to us how the Republican Party is the only hope for conservatives. Of course, we’ll be expected to maintain civility by shutting up and doing all of the listening.
They sure aren’t getting their message through to us via their dedicated RINO propaganda outlet and (GOP campaign operative training site), Townhall.com.
I got that “letter” from Michael Steele last week. I sent it back without a check and with a handwritten “donation of advice” in which I said:
– stop assuming we are stupid — This “survey” is slanted, simplistic, and asks all the wrong questions.
– stop assuming we are stupid — this letter is full of apocalyptic underlinings and exclamation points.
– stop assuming we are stupid — as a conservative, I support conservatives. As soon as I hear from one, I’ll open the wallet.
I did the exact same thing!
I did the same thing with my AARP dues letter referring to Obamacare. I didn’t get a RNC one…
You all are smarter than me. I just laughed a little bit while I tore my form up.
*I continue to send all the mailers back, surveys and all; I point out to them that as long as they allow McCain and Grahamnesty to be the face of the party, they are doomed; I also contribute a Bush Peso each time; They do not seem to understand that it was Bush that saddled up this Socialism horse for P-BO, and he is riding it for all it’s worth.
*Simcox for Senate in Arizona; That is where some of my money is going; Out with amnesty advocacy pimp McCain; If he can be fooled by the hoax that is man-made global warming, he needs to retire yesterday!
I sent my survey back last week demanding that primaries be ‘closed’.
Dear Chairman Steele:
Until you and the vast majority of the Republican office holders in Washington embrace conservative positions, RNC is going to stand for Receive No Contributions.
Sincerely,
Dems picked up so many seats in Congress the last couple election cycles not by picking their most “principled” candidates, but their most moderate, electable ones, especially in red territory.
Let’s face it: until “true conservatives” prove that they can be elected and govern, your movement is a pipe dream.
similar to what i wrote on mine. also sent them a message thru their website.
The last one I got was during the campaign. I sent it back with a few McCain Pesos in it and haven’t heard from them since.
lol. I just got my “survey” this morning. After reading what you all are doing, I did the same thing. Felt great!
I too was selected for a dollar amount call to the RNC. The words I used were unusual for me as I hadn’t used most of them since Vietnam. Give to the candidate, the party……sucks.
I have replied to numerous emails and printed surveys from the GOP with the same sentiments. The don’t get it and they never will. The RNC is clueless and hopeless.
It is time for a conservative alternative. I am no longer a Republican. And the reason I am not longer a Republican is the RNC.
WE82 – That should be written in the sky above D.C.!
Look at the sidebar- Red State reporting Scozzafavabeansandanicechianti not committed to remaining a Republican when she gets to Congress.
Genius at work, spend money to elect a Democrat. Worked so well for Arlene Spectre against Toomey in 2004.
….
RSS sort of has a point. We need to save the GOP. Snowe and the traitors must be expelled.
Barack Obama gives every sign of being an agent of the PRC or the former USSR. His was mentored from childhood by a succession of communists.
In the time it takes to create a third party that wins elections, Obama will have made this country a one party disctatorship like Stalin’s USSR or Hitler’s Germany, or, maybe, Mao’s China, his people seem to be Maoists, and the conservatives who would be running for political office on a third party ticket will be in re-education camps, if they haven’t been executed first.
Obama’s NY and Chicago mentor, Bill Ayers, terrorist bomber and likely cop killer
Ayers believed 25 million American conservatives would need to be executed once the communists came to power.
yikes, stillontheroad—swine flu on the hindquarters!
No–that was yours in the loo this morning…
I think it’s more like the RNC is no longer Republican.
Our major political parties have lost touch with their constituents. The seeds of revolution are beginning to germinate. The next Civil War will be fought by our children.
May our Lord’s hand be on their shoulder guiding them through the darkness which has gripped our land.
I opened mine, looked at it, and threw it in the recycle bin. If they have to ask what the he– issues are important, they are brain dead. Kiss my grits RNC.
Tazed.
No, the next civil war will be fought when enough people realize Obama is a communist who hates America as much as Stalin or Mao ever did.
No guarantee the patriots will win.
RSS and “I Love My Country” will be ok if the Marxists win, but most of the posters will be tracked down when the WordPress/Hot Air/Michelle Malkin servers are seized, and most of us, if not already dead in the fighting, will go to camps.
People with the mentality of Keith Olbermann will be in charge…
Off to the Cotton Bowl…
That isn’t allowed due to the concerns over global warming. Everything but Obama speeches are now considered a greenhouse gas.
I became an independent after the McLame debacle. I do the same every time….THEY STILL DON’T GET IT and probably never will.
RSS is not right. We cannot expel Snowe and Collins because we don’t control the party. And those who do don’t have a problem with Snowe and Collins.
If you are right on the second point then we have already lost. The GOP is not interested in changing into a conservative party.
I don’t have a problem with the GOP having some moderates (such as Guilani) in the party. They ahould run moderates in districts where moderate Dems are currently in office (IL 3 comes to mind). From what I read, this is NOT one of those districts. The “wisdom” of the GOP often eludes me.
A few years ago, in Aurora IL, a conservative African-American ran for mayor as a Republican. The party did nothing, as opposed to seizing a great opportunity. The IL GOP is like a “Ship of Fools” and it appears the NY GOP is taking notes from them. The only good news is that if she switches parties, she becomes an issue for the Dems.
The Steele staff probably have two piles when opening those “surveys”. One with “$$$” and all “others” = trash can. They can’t possibly read every one.
http://www.michelebachmann.com
She is a true conservative voice in the wilderness (especially here in Minnesota!!). I contributed to her campaign yesterday and will probably give more. I love how outspoken and “in-your-face” she is!
So you’re saying Democrats have no principles? I agree.
Yeah, that incisive analysis TOTALLY explains the Reagan Revolution
/sarc.
Incidentally, as quixotic as it may seem, this is why I’ve always supported term limits.
Political leaders in both parties always tend towards more statism the longer they are in the beltway (speaking generally). Dems go from moderately Left to crazy and Repubs go from solid conservatives to go-along-to-get-along RINOs (oftentimes just in certain areas).
There is a kind of political entropy (bad analogy) where things wind down from limited goverment and personal freedom to statism. Breaking that tendency by not allowing people to camp out for 30 and 40 years in the same elected office would go a long way to regularly “refreshing” the cause of liberty and eliminating the growth of an entrenched political class.
I threw my last mail survey in the trash – I filled out enough in the past that they should know the answers by now! And if they don’t, they were ignoring me anyway.
I love this crowd. I got that stupid survey and thought “Really?”. How many times do we have to see the same old bogus surveys that ask 2 and 3 level questions skewed towards the most common sense answers that relate to fiscal prudence or decency? They got an answer from me that didn’t fit the survey and didn’t include money either. Dummards is what my dad’s generation called them.
That’s the same kind of response I ‘ve been giving…repeatedly.
NOT A DIME!! Clowns…..
I stopped giving money to the RNC right after Steele went on Fox and nodded his head when the leftwing ‘tard “host” said the GOP convention looked like a “Nazi rally”. And I tell them that every time one of their call center agents call me on my cell phone soliciting donations (which has been more times than I can count).
RNC are you listening? Lose Steele and stop supporting fake “conservatives” and you get $$$. Simple.
Red State Skeptic said:
You and your ilk fail and will always fail to understand. The Majority of Americans are Conservative by nature. The filth that infests the Whitehouse is being exposed to the light every single day and the more exposure the more people that are conservative turn against you and your ilk. When you and the group of vermin you are part of are regulated to the trash can of history then tell us all that this movement was and is a pipe dream.
Got my Michael Steele ‘pleading’ for money letter yesterday, along with as poor an attempt at a polling form as the Party Of Stupids could put together.
Really, Steele … that Polling Form was the very epitome of how stupid the Party of Stupids has become. It is mind boggling how stupid a bunch of pros can sink to.
My response was to waste their postage and mail it back with a screed that was – in a nutshell – I am working as vigorously for a true Conservative grass roots party to displace you as I ever did with the Republican Party to gain seats over the Democrats.
The Democrats I understand and almost admire because they unfailingly are who they are … treasonous rat bast*** who will sell out America for more monkey lube and a chance to spit on soldiers. They are traitors, thieves, brigands, rapists, murderers, baby killers, moral corruptocrats and every other vile definitive in the book … but at least they are true to who they are.
The Republicans on the other hand are the virus in our political body; they were handed the legacy of the true American Spirit and proceeded to so befoul themselves and sell us down the river that I CAN NEVER EVER TRUST THAT PARTY AGAIN.
NEVER
I do a bodily function on the Republican Party from a great height.
yeah, mine looked very similar…don’t understand why they keep sending these requests for money when for the last 3 years I give them the same reply as yesterday.
“no money until you get back to Lincoln Republican Party platform of high morals, values and small government.”
Talk about dreaming.
I started sending their forms back with stuff like that written on it years and years ago. Somewhere along the line, they just stopped sending me the forms.
To be honest, the chances that the people who open the mail and see those things ever get to communicate with the people who make policy are incredibly slim. It’s a satisfying but basically empty gesture.
Good to see more people doing this. ANY crap coming from the party should contain these responses….until they finally get the message.
As some have said, it is possible the limp-wristed decision-makers in the party might never see these responses, but they WILL see the bottom line of their fund raising.
When they start asking why their mailings are not bringing in the money they thought it would, they might begin to understand.
I like that…………..
Ronald Reagan who oversaw runaway deficits, mass amnesty and bilateral talks with our sworn enemies? He’s a true conservative? RWR talked a good conservative game, but he governed as a RINO by any of yall’s definition.
If that were true, a majority of America’s elected leaders would also be Tom Coburns.
I got an envelope stamped “PAST DUE” in big red letters and inside was a request for money to “continue my membership” with the RNC. I wrote on that request that it was insulting to stamp “PAST DUE” like I was some kind of delinquent and I wasn’t going to send them anything but my disgust. What was their reply… They sent me another envelope stamped with the same darn thing!!!!!!
Federal deficit hits all-time high $1.42 trillion
But that’s okay. We were screwed no matter who won in 08. Deficit would have been that high or higher.
Yup.
… in other words, no money for RINOs, but lots of (our) money to deficit spend. Priorities in place. Mission Accomplished.
YUP no money from me either.
… make loser weenie Huckabee the next nominee… and they won’t see my money for a long time!
Corruption is a disease. Unchecked, it can spread quickly. “I might as well join the bandwagon too, and profit.” The ones left, unaffected, are few now. Hopefully, the 2010 elections will be the medicine to clear out this infection.
I’ve done this same thing a number of times, but the country-club, pro-choice RINO’s are apparently “NO deaf”! They seem to be in charge, and wish we conservatives would go somewhere else!
To repeat my comment from a related post:
Absolutely. I’m really tired of this 1-1/2 party system (democrat and democrat-lite). Bring forth the conservatives! To He77 with the beltway and all who work within it. They have created a steaming cesspool and have the guts to tell us it’s a sauna!
I changed my voter registration to “no party affiliation” when Juan McCain was nominated by the press. No more money for Nat’l Republicans. None, zero, zip.
I always send their junk back with the following written all over it.
“You allowed Sarah to be trashed and you continue to do so. Stop sending this crap to me”.
Ever since the RINO infection in the GOP Senate took over, I’ve redirected my donations to Club for Growth.
On the surface that sounds reasonable, RSS, but you’re failing to account for conditions.
In 1976 the Dems could have won the WH with Donald Duck. Nixon turned out bad and the economy was headed down. Ford may have been an okay guy, but he was basically a stand in holding the bag. No repub was going back to the WH in 76.
Fast Forward to 2006. Everyone was so unhappy with the war and the repubs spending that it became pretty easy to win. Then by 2008 the economy had worsened. Obambi won by casting McCain as Bush III, and no one was happy with Bush II. They won because of conditions and the poor performance of “centrist” repubs, NOT because they were “electable.”
I sent mine back with some choice words and a penny taped to the form using duct/duck/duk/duc tape. Makes ‘em have to fill out more paperwork.
I have yet to get mine — perhaps they got the message the last time I did precisely this.
Cotton Bowl………
Hook’em Horn’s
Yesterday I got another letter from AARP with a membership card in it and request to join.
I returned the form with ‘Not only NO, but H@LL NO for Obamacare’ scrawled on it in their postage-paid envelope with the chopped up card. It probably won’t faze them, but it sure felt good.
Related?
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These times will not favor the timid.
EdM:
People with the mentality of Keith Olbermann ARE in charge…
That’s kind of the point, isn’t it? You state the obvious. It’s like saying, “Until the Titans start scoring more points than their opponents, they won’t win any games.”
I’ve already sent four of these back with a similar reply… keep getting them, though. I have a feeling the RNC just opens them to see if there’s a check inside; if not, they go into a trash bin. I often wonder if phone messages and letters addressed to our congressmen and women ever make it any farther than the aide or secretary who answers the phone/opens the letters. They couldn’t be more out of touch with what their constituents want. The only way to get it through to them is to send them back to the 9 to 5 jobs they had before they were elected to represent us.
I have that same mailing sitting right in front of me, gonna do the same freaking thing!!!
Ok Thomas. Now that the election was a year ago and there’s no way McCain will ever win in ’08, what do you suggest for the future?
Time is ticking for this party. They’d better get the rag out and get on the stick before they permanently and forever lose elections for eternity.
You bunch throw out Gingrich, and we throw up on you.
On October 16th, 2009 at 5:22 pm, Republicanvet said:
It would be very helpful if Michelle or someone else posted the business mailing address for Mr. Steele’s direct office.
I’d pay postage to send it back directly to his office, as opposed to an intern in the fund-raising office where it will likely just get tossed without notice.
On October 16th, 2009 at 5:44 pm, Red State Skeptic said:
Sounds like you already have the farm picked out that you’re going
stealconfiscate for the good of the people.Same here…
I love you Michelle but, didn’t you support Steele? Okay, we all make mistakes but he was a bad choice and is the poster boy of what we can expect from the RNC and Republicans.
When you sent us to the “new” RNC web site, they had surveys to help them understand what “conservative values” are. They have to be told?
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I have been an independant since I started voting. I used to get the surveys until I answered all of the questions honestly – too honestly. Never heard back – never will.
Receive No Contributions!
I’m just pickled tink that I’m not the only person that sends back their “gimme money” with similar wording.
I just recently did the same thing that everyone else is doing. Today I called the two numbers in Washington DC that Michelle listed in her other post about the “left of the Democrat” candidate in NY 23 and told the people who answered the phone what I thought of their actions in supporting that idiot woman who claims to be a Republican. One guy asked me to hold and I said OK. When he came back on the line I asked him if the other person was telling him the same thing that I was telling him and he said Yes. STARVE THE “BLATANT” BEAST. Stop buying the liberal crap and thus supporting those who would enslave you too. Cancel your subscription to the local newspaper if it is biased. Get your news online from Michelle and HotAir. Stop buying NFL tickets and merchandise. See if Jerry Jones can pay for his fancy stadium if only 10 or 15 K show up to watch in person. I get my TV over the air and don’t send any money to any of the cable companies who mostly support this statist administration and won’t give you any honest news. Just look at “Balloon Boy” and what a hoax that is turning out to be. It’s as bad as “Global Warming” or “Climate Change”.
HA! I did the same thing too!!! I further said that the only reason I donated in the first place was bc of Sarah Palin…
And who did you support to fix the above..oh that is right you aren’t into fixing those kind of problems..in which case STFU, RSS
Ronald Reagan, peace be upon him, actually accomplished something. He won the cold war.
Game, set, match.
Ronald Reagan’s budgets ALL were voted down and replaced with budgets full of ridiculous overspending – to the point where deficits grew at incredible rates DESPITE HUGE INCREASES IN RECEIPTS (which were the direct result of big tax cuts).
Had RWR’s budgets been passed as proposed, the deficit would have been nil, and a huge portion of he national debt would have been retired.
It is true that Reagan wasn’t as conservative as would be required to correct the current crisis, he did succeed in most of the areas he sought to, especially the military. Thank God for that.
Sadly, given the socialist takeover of the political parties in power today, Reagan would, indeed be too liberal for America’s current needs.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Just say no to RINOs.
I know many (including myself) are not thrilled with the thought of going 3rd party, but I really just wish a splinter group off the Republican party would just make a Conservative Republican party. Add that one little word, walk the talk, and I think the money would come pouring in.
I’ve been returning them with such messages for several years – no stamp and no $$$$.. This week we got two of them. The surveys are pathetic and insulting. The RNC needs to wake up and have some TEA.
I donate to candidates directly.
We don’t really care what the Dems do or how they do it. The movement is not designed to emulate the stinking Dems, you idiot. The GOP controlled Congress and WH for 8 years with their “moderate, electable ones” and what did that get us? Squat! RSS if you are a Republican, change parties…TODAY! And tell yer friends!
I stopped receiving these surveys.
So, now they mailed this survey to my husband. He doesn’t bother with these so I guess I’ll get my red marker out again.
I have done the same. But this is easy, What happens when it is time to vote, here in maine, and I have to choose to vote Snowe/Collins or Real Dem? what the hell do we do? If I abstain from voting, then the Dem wins. at least then we know what we are getting, right? There has to be something we can do, but there is no leadership coming from the RNC, because they support these idiot RINOs. Someone tell me, what options are there? A write in campaign?
Here is my opinion. You can’t lead if you don’t make it where people want to follow you.
In the spirit of this post, I am going to copy here two emails I sent to the MA GOP in 2008. Please excuse the repeating of certain comedic references, but at the time it was (and is still) the closest thing to the truth I have found.
The first, From March 2008:
Good evening,
Let us get all of the specifics out of the way from the get-go: I am a
32 year old Proud Conservative. I work a blue-collar job. I drive a
blue-collar car. I have a value system that makes me think I was born about 40 years too late.
The reason I am writing is to express my dismay at how the GOP is
publicizing their ideals in Massachusetts. To say that life imitates art in this area would be an understatement. Watching each political cycle, the public perception reminds me of Monty Python’s Life Of Brian. Specifically, I am thinking of the “People’s Front Of Judea Committee” scenes combined with the Governor’s meeting from Mel Brook’s Blazing Saddles. This is NOT a good thing! Every election cycle, I see people putting out a few points and lines, a bunch of harrumphs emanating from the gallery, then nothing. To say that this saddens me greatly would be a gross understatement.
I have been thinking about the problems of the GOP in Massachusetts at length, and I believe I have hit upon a core issue: Many people are AFRAID to call themselves Republican due to the perceived stigma.
I can give you two examples of this.
The first is my neighbor, two doors down from me. He is a self-professed
“gun-loving Democrat” who, while often professing free-market ideals, insists on allying himself with the Democrat party. In his case, I think he is relating a bit to the pre-FDR Democrat party which held many of the same ideals that Conservatives do today.
The second is a very good friend of mine currently residing in Virginia.
She consistently refers to herself as a Liberal Democrat, yet whenever we have a moral or political discussion, she agrees with the Conservative stances.
These two examples lead me to believe there has become a massive disconnect
between what the Republican party, specifically the CONSERVATIVE Republican
party, is perceived to believe vs actual beliefs. Until this perception is changed, the Massachusetts GOP will remain a distinct minority.
I will be very honest: While I am going to vote for McCain in the General
Election, but I will do so while holding my nose. Many in the media call
McCain a “maverick” — I call him a traitor to the Conservative wing of the
Republican party. He does not hold many of my ideals, but the alternative
is guaranteed to be worse.
The ejection of Conservative morals, values and stances from the GOP
deeply saddens me. I can only hope that these are someday restored.
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And now, the second in response to a money beg email. This was a couple of weeks after the 2008 Election:
You want me to get active? Tell me why I should think that the GOP will not turn into another rendition of Monty Python’s “People’s Republic Of Judea Committee” scenes.
The GOP wants me to get active, yet I see three weeks of blustering followed by meekness on EVERY CAMPAIGN CYCLE.
The GOP wants me to get active while national GOP “think tanks” that apparently truly control all the purse strings and ideals in the “Republican” party pull ads out of hotly-contested races in multiple states.
The GOP wants me to get active in a party that has long decided, on a state and national level, that the only way to “get votes” is to keep moving farther and farther to left in some misguided, all-inclusive “tent” that waters down what I really believe in.
You want me to get active? Then start proving that the GOP, *ESPECIALLY* the MA GOP, will not continue it’s ways of preaching only to the choir, failing to put the needed public support and financing behind local and regional races and actually *GROW A PAIR* for once.
Until then, if I want to be part of the clown car, I will run away and join a circus.
Sincerely,
An Angry Conservative
I got mine in the mail this afternoon!! I feel special.
GOP-RIP
It really is time for American citizens to have representation by people who support:
The Constitution (including 2A)
The rule of law (vigorous immigration enforcement and no amnesty)
Fiscal Sanity (we have no hope of paying for what has been promised already)
Neither current party offers such people.
Exactly!
Dear RNC:
You show me your stuff (true conservatism), and I’ll show you my stuff (money).
’nuff said.
I wrote SHAME all over my RNC survey. I never send in money with those anyway- never know where it is going. but I like filling them out every so often and putting my own comments. Can’t believe they don’t support Hoffman- I know some do but are intimidated
I have been sending back their “surveys” without $$ for 2 years, ever since they backed RINOS in the primary. I write in dark sharpie pen, “NO RINOS, NO AMNESTY, STOP SPENDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!” across their “surveys”. Then I write in the names of the candidates that I am sending the funds to directly, bypassing them. The survey I got this week will have Hoffman’s name and Rubio’s name on it. I also found this guy who is running against a liberal dem in IL. He took on Barney Frank at a forum in Harvard. Donate to him, too if you all wish.
http://www.pollakforcongress.com/index.html
Also, I am donating to Russell, who is running again against Murtha. I think he can win this time in 2010
http://russellbrigade.com/main/
I simply wrote to them that when they finally get around to sending out a survey that demonstrates a genuine interest in my opinions on the issues, rather than simply an obvious envelope stuffer for yet another request for money, I would consider filling out said survey, and might consider donating to them again.