Got my second notice from the Republican National Committee today.
They sent it in an orange envelope, with the red words “SECOND NOTICE” on the front.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over!
A “second notice?” Like I owe them some money or something?
So, what did they say? What did the letter say?
Dear Friend,
I’ve written to you numerous times since becoming Chairman of the Republican National Committee in February, asking you to reactivate your membership, but I haven’t heard from you. I hope you have not turned your back on our Party!
…[blah blah blah]…
Our time is coming. We must be ready to lead the fight. I hope you’ll reactivate your RNC membership today! I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
[signature]
Michael Steele
Chairman, Republican National Committee
As you can see, I omitted the main body of the letter, just quoting from the opening and closing. It’s the opening and closing that I want to address.
First, I’ve never been a member of the Republican Party. Or, at least, if I was, I didn’t know it. If they had Congressional hearings, and I was called and asked, “Have you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Republican Party?” I would honestly answer “No.”
So, I’m not really sure how I can reactivate my membership if I’ve never been a member.
Let me also say that I’m not now, nor have I ever been, nor do I see myself suffering sufficient brain damage to become, a member of the Democratic Party.
I’m an independent. A conservative, to be sure. So, I have no party loyalty. I do have a philosophical loyalty to conservatives. And, I usually vote for Republicans, since they are usually the conservatives.
Now, they may have assumed I’m a Republican, because I sent money to two Republican candidates this past election cycle. I sent money to the Fred Thompson campaign. And, after the convention, I sent money to the McCain campaign. And, heck, maybe the fine print said that contributing made me a Republican. I don’t know.
Anyway, maybe that’s why they think I’m a Republican. Or was, until I didn’t send in any response to earlier mailings.
That brings me to the second statement with which I have an issue: “I hope you have not turned your back on our Party!”
Well, if I was a Republican, it was because of conservative principals. So, if anyone turned a back on anyone else, it was the Republicans turning their backs on me. And on other conservatives.
George W. Bush (for whom I twice voted, and would have a third time if it was possible) and the Republican Congress spent money irresponsibly. That’s not what I, as a conservative, want. Overall, I thought Bush was a good president. But he had his faults. He wasn’t conservative enough for my taste.
And the bailout. That was totally against my wishes. But they didn’t ask me. They’re asking me to send them money to rejoin the GOP, but didn’t ask if I thought the bailout was stupid. It was. And so were they for supporting it.
Other things, too. Sotomayor, for instance. They aren’t standing up against the Wise Latina. Or anything else, for that matter.
So, no, Mr. Steele, I didn’t leave your party.
Your party left me.
I’ll let you back. All you got to do is act right. Extreme right.
Consider this your second notice.
Very nice, Basil.
However, I am rather alarmed by this:
It is now my opinion that the Republican party has been taken over by Michael Steele and his fellow rap-loving machines who will destroy the White House and Capitol Hill in a nuclear attack before harvesting all of our brains.
Or it could mean, “Our time to surrender again is at hand”.
Which seems more plausible?
[For a Maryland politician, Steele is a conservative. Around here (I’m in the Deep South, remember), he’d be a limp-wristed moderate with liberal tendencies, but earning a handful of conservative merit badges. Still, I’m willing to give him a chance. He’s on his second chance with me. I’m not sure how many more I feel like giving. It’s time for him to man up. Rush Limbaugh isn’t the enemy. Barack Obama and his supporters are the enemy. I hope he realizes that. – B]
That’s nothing compared to the NRA ads. I got so sick of their constant harassment that they drove me to stop funding them. Then they send me a letter that says, not verbatim but close, “If you don’t support the NRA you are WORSE than the liberals who are trying to take your guns”. They went on to try and rationalize that statement but I had enough.
They shoulda sent me flowers or something.
Agreed, especially the last part.
All Michael Steele is doing is insuring that that the Dems will still be in control in 2010. If Mr. Steele is still in charge in 2012 Obama will get a second term. Unless everyone gets feed up and votes for Ralph Nader or some other person.
A “Republican” who gets elected in Maryland isn’t really a Republican at all. I would know – I’m sad to say that I live in Maryland (albeit the majority Republican part of Maryland). Republicans need to realize that they’re not going to be able to sway the black vote by making Steele the leader of the RNC. We also need a chairman who has the balls to stand up for his party.
Obama may be half white and half black, but in the eyes of the black voters he’s WAY more black than Michael Steele. I wonder how long it’ll take for the RNC to realize that….
Cheney/Palin/Zo/Crowder 2012. We’ve had enough.
Lucky I’m in my 50s. If I die, more for me. F**k ’em.
LOL. I just got one of those in the mail today too. But mine was different. The envelope looked super secret and serious, with a big red box that said, “Priority Contents: Taxpayer Information Enclosed. Illegal Use Prohibited.” Nothing at all on the envelope to tell me who/where it came from.
So, thinking that the IRS finally caught on to my tax fraud schemes, I busted the sucker open right away.
Inside was a “Taxpayer Opinion Poll on the REAL Liberal Agenda.” LOL. We don’t know what the real liberal agenda is by now? As opposed to, what, their “fake” agenda?
And then they asked for money. . .
The Republicans are throwing a party? Why wasn’t I invited? I’m never invited…. I’ll show them, I’m declaring myself a member of HALP, well I would, but Oklahoma would just count me as an independent (One of the few things I do not like about my wonderful home state, which is still better than whatever state you other people live in)
I did get a really nice picture of George and Laura Bush one time, though. After making a contribution.
And one time I received a Christmas card signed by Laura. She was always very sweet. I miss her.
I have NEVER contributed one cent to ANY politician, nor will I.( Untill my oldest son runs for office) I have a real problem with millionaires asking a family of four making 50,000 a year to pay their bills.
Agreed! I miss having a First Lady with class.
MikeLL and Marko,
Are you saying the fella that’s first lady right now isn’t sweet and classy?
Support only candidates you know stand for your values, Not the political parties.
Screw’em all!
(Just finished reading Glen Beck’s Common Sense – I’m all charged up!)
Amen Brother Basil ! Maybe Michael Steele has bought into the Libtard Lie of Country Club Republicans, in which case he naturally wants you to renew your membership. Or maybe when Michael Steele wanted to become a Republican, they told him HE had to pay for membership ( those racist bastards! ). I’m with midwestconservative. They get enough of my hard earned money through THE TAXES THEY KEEP VOTING FOR MORE OF! Like a Missouri Mule, they’ll have to SHOW ME they are conservative if they want my VOTE. No money to political parties, maybe to a tried and true individual, but the RNC keeps throwing RINOs at us. More Sarah, less Romney!
Basil, let’s not be too hasty about this. I understand Steele is now offering fried chicken and potato salad as an incentive for voting republican. However, it’s unclear as to whether you have to be black to get the food. If Steele will up the ante to include corn on the cob, I’m there!
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/07/14/steele_chicken/index.html
I get the same mailings! I use to respond with written comments but then I figured out that nobody at the RNC is at a reading level anymore. Micha el Steele is pathetic and I won’t support any political party ever again unless they actually decide to be conservative and like that’s going to happen in a town of losers, liars, creeps, perverts and RINO’s! My money goes to only those who I agree with like my girl Sarah!
Right on, Son of Bob.
I belong to the party of DamnCat.
If Republicans put up candidates that represent the values of my party, I’ll support them.
If Democrats put up candidates that represent the values of my party,… well, it would be a freakin’ miracle.
Republicans have to show me some conservative backbone instead of bashing heroes like Rush Limbaugh.
@Marko, “who will destroy the White House and Capitol Hill in a nuclear attack…”
and this would be bad because…?
Dear Bay-sill cell carcinoma….. I coRncur.
As a bird watcher I used to subscribe to several nature type magazines. This resulted in mailings from non other than Hillary Clinton (then running in NY State). Since I live on the west coast and have never registered democrat I guessed it must be they just buy lists from everywhere and go for it.
Mr. Steele got your name from a gun magazine or something.
[Maybe from MacWorld. That’s about the only mag I subscribe to. But, yeah, to your point, lots of politicians do buy mailing lists. That’s why I support the death penalty. – B]
Does Michael Steele + Bilingual Ballots = New Republican Majority?
So says this writer who is ecstatic about the “New Republican Party” that he says Steele is creating.
http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/south_king/fwm/opinion/51530632.html
I on the other hand doubt Republicans can out pander the Democrats on the issue of “Identity Politics”(Racial Politics). As long as Republicans choose to fight the Democrats on battlefields of the Democrat’s own choosing they will lose. It’s simple Sun Tzu.
The Republican party continues to go further and further away from the direction we need it to go for a vehicle of positive change. I feel that the only option left to us is a new party because even if the Republicans win next time I don’t see them as significantly enough different from what we have now.