Posted on 03/22/2011 9:51:49 AM PDT by fwdude
I got a solicitation call from the RNC last week and I think I finally got off of their roles as a "card carrying" member. I had donated small amounts in years past, but have forcefully informed them since 2008 that I don't support their candidates and platforms anymore. Anyway, they asked me during the recent call if I consider myself a Republican or a Democrat. I told them "neither."
So they pigeonholed me as an "independent." Does it sound like I'm off the hook?
It doesn't seem to make any impression on them at all.
“So they pigeonholed me as an “independent.” Does it sound like I’m off the hook?”
More like off the chain!!
When you receive a request for a financial contribution from a political party or individual politician, write to them in your own words why you have decided to decline and enclose the letter in the pre-paid postage envelope.
If enough people do this, Congress will get the message.
lefties always call me a republican. maybe in the original sense, but not today. i’m definitely not ‘big tent’
i classify myself as a Constitutional libertarian (not the drug-addled libertarians of today)
there’s like 5 of us.
That’s actually completely pointless. Either 1, they’ve contracted with a firm that does nothing but send mailings and receive money who’ll just throw it away without comment, or 2, it was received by a minimum wage employee who’s been hired to put a check in a box next to your name on a computer so some other minimum wage staffer can send you a thank you card, or it gets thrown away with no check in the box. They don’t even bother keeping tracking of who didn’t donate.
Unless you're in a state with open primaries. But then you have to choose; the best candidate for your preferred party, or the weakest for the opposing party.
Excellent point. States differ that way. In my state, AZ, you have to vote your party in the primary. Ironically (for a FReeper, anyway, and a longtime one at that), I have maintained my pre-Reagan Democrat registration. Most of our county-level politics here, and, for that matter, state-level for which primaries are contested, are Democrat. This way, I can influence more meaningfully in matters that are close to home. Also, if I prefer the Republican (who usually is unopposed), then I can, indeed, try to help the weakest Democrat to get the nomination.
Another reason for staying (D) is the cover I get whenever libtards hear my arguments and say, "Yeah, you're just parroting the Republican party line." I can truthfully say, "No, I'm not... but YOU certainly are parroting the Democrat party line."
So, what does that have to do with this thread about getting those annoying GOPAC (etc) fund-raising calls? I just say, after listening politely in case they might have something worthwhile to say (so far, none... but you never can tell), "Don't you know you're talking to a Democrat?"
Democrats, on the other hand, never call me any more. I've always made it a point of telling them to get rid of the communists at the head of the party, then call me back. Food for thought. Maybe they've added that to their checklist, "Did not contribute because:... too many communists"
I got one of those “PAST DUE” dun letters too and went totally ballistic on several people at the RNC. I told them that I valued my credit and my reputation and for them to send something that anyone could interpret as me not paying my obligations made me furious.
FWIW: I’m one of those folks who determined that the RNC couldn’t be trusted with my money (Michael Steele? Really?!) and prefer to donate directly to worthy candidates.
OK... by "serious influence" I mean I take my vote seriously, even if I don't get my way.
The other part of "serious influence" is that, in my state, AZ, I can only vote in the primary for which I am registered. The Republicans at my local and county levels are usually unopposed. So I can use my vote to affect who wins the General by trying to sabotage the liberals when the conservative is running uncontested in the other primary.
I have regretted being unable to vote in the Republican primary a time or two; but I have celebrated being able to vote in the Dem primary dozens of times.
As to your stacked-deck premise, I give you Exhibit A, the 2010 housecleaning of RINOs in primaries. So, take some heart from that. But please don't succumb to the idea that we each have only one vote and that's not enough to make a serious difference.
For presidential primaries, the leading states are not necessarily inclined to support conservative pols. That is the crux of my comment.
I have not have a meaningful primary vote for president in decades. (NY-GA-KS).
Tell them to take your name off their calling list. They're legally obligated to do so.
Oh, man.. You have to leave your house and find a cave in Montana. Take your Claymores, too. They’re coming.
My requirements are very simple. I want this Obama abortion goverment stopped dead in its tracks. No damned budget, no damned compromise. A 5 billion dollar cut from a trillion dollar budget is RINO shit, if you ask me. Compromising on ejecting those foreign illegal vermin from this country is RINO shit. Having anything official to do with Obamacare [read taking their damned 40 pieces of silver] is RINO shit.
Obama's entire ideology and existence is based on the radical tenet that in order to effect change, the 'system' has to be taken down. It is time for real Americans to turn the tables on him and make him swallow his own medicine!
Amen to everything you said, brother!
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