So I got this in the snail mail today.
Dear Mr. Bawdy,
I don't want to believe you've abandoned the Republican Party, but I have to ask... Have you given up ?
Our records show we have not yet received your Republican National Committee membership renewal for the critical 2008 presidential election year.
As the Treasurer of the RNC, I know our Party's success depends directly on grassroots leaders like you.
So I am surprised and concerned especially because I know how generously you supported President Bush and the RNC in the past. You helped to advance our vision for America and elect Republicans at all levels of government.
Mr. Bawdy, I know other things come up, and perhaps you've just been delayed in renewing your membership. If that's the case, I understand.
But we've not heard from you this year -- and I hope you haven't deserted our Party.
Your generous financial assistance and active involvement are more important than ever as we work to elect a new Republican president and Congress.
There is so much at stake. The Democrats are determined to put a liberal like Barack Obama in the White House, expand their narrow majorities in the U.S. House and Senate, and push our country to the Left with their agenda of high taxes, big government and weakened national security.
Big Labor, radical liberal protest groups and Hollywood elites are planning to spend more than $500 million to defeat Republicans and aid the Democrat power grab.
Mr. Bawdy, the RNC relies on the voluntary support of Republican activists like you.
That's why I urgently need you to renew your RNC membership for 2008 with a contribution of $1,000, $500, $250, $100, $50 or even $25.
The men and women who will represent us in this year's election are hard at work building strong campaigns.
And so is the RNC. We are doing our part to provide the research, staff support, voter registration, volunteer recruitment and training, and direct financial assistance our candidates need to win.
The RNC is the ONLY Republican organization permitted by federal law to directly support our presidential nominee.
If we fail to hold the White House and make gains in Congress, the Democrats have made clear they will overturn every reform you helped President Bush achieve.
Democrat presidential candidates and the Reid/Pelosi-run-Congress have promised to repeal the Bush tax cuts, retreat from the War on Terror and increase the size of government through their one-size-fits-all health care plan.
We cannot allow them to succeed ! That's why your renewed commitment is so important.
So if you have delayed in renewing your membership because you feel the RNC has let you down, or no longer needs you, please let me know. I want to hear from you.
Just include your comments and suggestions with the enclosed Membership Confirmation and return with your 2008 membership renewal check. You can also renew by calling 1-800-445-5781 or via our secure website at www.GOP.com/Treasurer2008.
But please don't turn your back on our Republican candidates running for office from the Courthouse to the White House; they are counting on your support. Renew your RNC membership today. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Tim Morgan
RNC Treasurer
P.S. The 2008 elections are critical to the future of our nation. We need the support of every Republican to retain the White House, regain Congress and elect GOP legislators at all levels. Please don't quit on our Party and our cause now. Renew your RNC membership today.
Thank you.
OK.
This letter infuriated me.
Let me address it point by point.
I did NOT abandon the Republican Party, the Republican Party abandoned ME !
I HAVE given up ! This Party has spent the last eight years spitting on us Conservatives !
If you know the Party's success depends directly on grassroots leaders like me, then why have you turned your back on me ?
I helped to advance our vision for America ? Really ? I didn't want to advance a vision for America that included:
- McCain/Feingold which spat upon the 1st Amendment which President Bush didn't veto.
- McCain/Bush/Kennedy that grants Citizenship to Illegal Immigrants, doesn't secure our borders and leaves our country more vulnerable to infiltration by our enemies.
- McCain/Lieberman that buys into the Global Warming Hoax and will waste untold billions of dollars and cost untold amounts of jobs fighting a Boogieman that doesn't exist.
- The Gang of 14, which included McCain, that prevented the confirmation of conservative appellate court candidates nominated by President George W. Bush.
- A candidate that still will not endorse drilling for oil in ANWR.
- The Bush Prescription Drug Plan. Yet another entitlement program that cannot be funded.
- Bigger Government, a higher deficit, less freedom and more bureaucracy.
My vision for America was the anti-thesis for what McCain and Bush shoved down our throats with the exceptions of National Security and Tax Cuts. Hell, Bush didn't figure out where his Veto Pen was until his sixth year in office !
Perhaps I've just been delayed in renewing my membership ? Yep. Delayed until the Republican Party remembers who it is that funds and votes for them and why we fund and vote for them.
You hope I haven't deserted our Party ? The Party deserted ME !
My generous financial assistance and active involvement are more important than ever as we work to elect a new Republican president and Congress ?
How so ? It didn't advance the Conservative cause the last few elections. McCain is a RINO. The Republican Senators and Congressmen should be ashamed of themselves for what they have done and what they have failed to do these past eight years. If my generous financial assistance and active involvement were important before, why did you not only ignore me and your Conservative base, but go against almost every principle we hold dear ?
The Democrats are determined push our country to the Left with big government ? Wow. Wonder what you guys did ?
Agenda of high taxes ? Why didn't you guys make the tax cuts permanent when you could ? Instead, the Democrats don't have to raise taxes, just let the tax cuts expire. Good move !
The RNC relies on the voluntary support of Republican activists like me ? You sure seem to have forgotten it's an exchange. I give support to you and you vote the way I want. Bad votes, no dough.
A contribution of $1,000, $500, $250, $100, $50 or even $25 ? How about not one stinking penny ? Have you gotten the idea yet ? You haven't done a damned thing to deserve one damned penny from me.
The men and women who will represent us in this year's election are hard at work building strong campaigns ? Yeah. Good luck with that. They haven't represented me in the past, why would they now ? Here's a few hints:
- Drill here and drill now. ANWR included.
- Buld some new refineries already, it's only been thirty-two years for God's sake.
- Seal the damned border.
- Arrest and deport the Illegal Immigrants.
- Repeal McCain/Feingold.
- Repeal McCain/Lieberman.
- Repeal The Bush Prescription Drug Plan.
- Make the tax cuts permanent.
- Endorse and push the Fair Tax.
- Stop increasing the size of Government.
- Stop spending MY money on pork.
- Get another candidate for President.
The RNC is doing their part to provide the research ? How about listening to your constituents for a change ?
The RNC is the ONLY Republican organization permitted by federal law to directly support our presidential nominee ? First, he's is not MY presidential nominee. Second, you can thank his own insane "reform" for that. Third, you capitalized everything except President and Presidential, WTF is up with that ?
If you fail to hold the White House and make gains in Congress, the Democrats have made clear they will overturn every reform I helped President Bush achieve ? Again, I didn't want most of the "reforms" President Bush achieved. They were NOT reforms and they were certainly NOT Conservative.
Democrat presidential candidates and the Reid/Pelosi-run-Congress have promised to repeal the Bush tax cuts, retreat from the War on Terror and increase the size of government through their one-size-fits-all health care plan ? Yeah ? Well, they don't need to repeal the Bush tax cuts, they just have to let them expire. Retreat from the War on Terror ? Yeah, they will and America will be attacked again. Increase the size of government ? I don't see how that's much different from what the Republican Party has done.
My renewed commitment is so important ? What about your renewed commitment to me and my values, my vote ?
So then you have the gall to say "So if you have delayed in renewing your membership because you feel the RNC has let you down, or no longer needs you, please let me know. I want to hear from you." BUT: You'll only hear from me if I include my comments and suggestions with an enclosed Membership Confirmation with my 2008 membership renewal check. You didn't listen the last time I sent you money, why would I think you'll listen now ?
Don't turn MY back on our Republican candidates running for office ? Seems to me the Republican candidates have turned their backs on me !
About your P.S.
The Party quit on me and our cause years ago.
The Republican Party is a stinking roadkill on the roadside of history waiting for someone in DOT to scrape up.
Pissed off at the RNC ?
Damned right I am.
You're the ones that allowed open primaries that enabled Independents and Democrats to elect McCain as our nominee.
You're the ones that allowed crap legislation to pass when we controlled the Presidency and both Houses of Congress.
You betrayed us.
Now you, a sycophant named Tim Morgan dare to accuse me of abandoning the Conservative Cause ? Makes me want to spit.
Please find enclosed nothing.
That's what you and your Party have given me.
"I thought I heard something, but maybe it was just a dream, I used to hear you but now I know, All your talk is cheap skywriting, it’s big & bold until the smoke has cleared. A gust of wind & words are re-arranging, and suddenly the message just disappears."
I'm going Libertarian this time.
At least they stand for something.
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