Posted on 11/12/2013 5:05:04 AM PST by don-o
Lamar! hates African orphans.
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Maybe so but I’d need more than Ron Hall’s rant over $50 to prove it.
I am a sneaky one, ain't I? LOL!!!
I AM intrigued with the responses thus far. The mere mention of Africa seems to push a hot button with some.
Someone asked if I had read my Alinsky. Not recently, but maybe the source guy has. He's getting attention, isn't he?
Finally, for now - bottom line is that I am worried that Joe Carr's campaign to challenge Lamar! is languishing a bit and I will take any opportunity I can to get notice out that Lamar! does have opposition.
I agree with you, bert. I am worried that the TP may have saddled up the wrong hoss. I hope I am proved wrong; but, I need to see some competence soon.
While there are many reasons to oppose Alexander, this has to rate as one of the pettiest, whiniest diatribes I have seen in a while. It is the sort of thing a candidate would surreptitiously sneak out to show how low-rent his opposition supposedly is.
I detest the “gimmee money or you’re a bad person” mentality, be it from a crack smoking welfare mother who demands that the public pay for her eight babies; or a “save the housefly” animal rights group, who demands civil rights for “insect Americans”.
In any event, Alexander’s reply was a typical polite “bedbug letter”, that was not mean spirited in any way, and contributes nothing to any campaign to replace him in office with a more determined conservative.
Phooey.
According to the site it was written by somebody called Ron Hall. Whoever he is.
This has to be sarcasm or humor. It’s so pathetically written, it’s almost unreadable.
I am planning a trip to Hawaii to help young runaway girls and need everybody to send me money. If you don’t send me money you must hate girls and I’ll vote for Ashley Judd.
I have no money to donate but I’ll go along as free labor.
I don't think it has to do with Africa, specifically. There are folks who believe that charity begins at home, and that we should take care of Americans in need before taking care of Africans, or Indonesians, or South Americans in need.
As well, the attack on Sen. Alexander is, apart from the fact that the appeal was for African orphans, lamebrained. As others have noted, many of us get many solicitations for charitable giving. As a United States Senator, I wouldn't be surprised is Mr. Alexander gets even more than most of us.
Part of the problem is that if one gives a few bucks one time to one charity, suddenly, one is inundated with charitable appeals from every sympathetic cause imaginable. I figure that every dollar of charitable giving my wife and I make elicits $10 is direct mail and $100 in charitable telemarketing. It sometimes makes me feel guilty for giving the dollar.
I gave something like $25 to a particular charity some years back, and I've received literally dozens of pieces of direct mail from them since, as well as a couple of telephone calls (which annoys me to no end, as I never provided my phone number, and it is unlisted and unpublished). Conservatively, they've spent more soliciting additional dollars from me than I ever gave them.
This is really a cheap attack on the senator, and it's beneath you to post, unless you're actually for Sen. Alexander and thus posting this to point out the stupidity of those who oppose Sen. Alexander. I imagine there are all sorts of substantive reasons to oppose Mr. Alexander's re-election, but this actually makes me feel like sending him $50 out of sympathy.
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Maybe he thought he was being tricked into donating to African Rhinos.
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