Is this a shoot the messenger sort of thing?
They didn’t expect this kind of reaction? Out of touch etc etc etc blah blah blah.
Laura Ingraham took Senor Bush to the woodshed this morning.
audio. (I hope the link will work.)
http://www2.nationalreview.com/dest/2007/05/30/mono.mp3
I changed emails and had my home phone disconnected and only use my cell. The RNC can’t find me and I gave them a boatload of money in 2004. In my last call to them I told them that they wouldn’t see another cent from me until the borders were secured.
In my opinion, it was the same issue that booted them last November. It was the media and the GOP that wanted to make it about the War. When people don’t feel they matter they don’t show up and they don’t support anyone.
I know I put MY checkbook away.
It’s not only immigration, it’s the Bush Administration’s failure to clean up the corrupt Justice Department (still filled with Clinton scumbags), clean up the leaky, rogue CIA, and clean OUT the leaky, communist State Department. Some of those mice need to be in PRISON.
I think it was when Sandy Berger walked away laughing after his guilty plea to stealing and destroying classified material from the National Archives that I closed my checkbook. Or maybe it was when the Justice Department threw a couple of border agents in jail while giving a Mexican drug smuggler immunity. Of course, it might have been when Bush fired some US Attorneys and then grabbed his ankles when the rats whined, sending out his lackey to apologize instead of laughing in the rats’ faces and firing a few more US Attorneys just because it’s Thursday.
Hmmmm.... On the other hand, I may have closed my checkbook when it became evident that Commander-in-Chief George W. Bush was happy to put the scumbag ACLU lawyers of JAG in charge of the war in Iraq. Way to be, Bush. How many Marines will die because they hesitated to pull their triggers just long enough to review their “battlefield ethics” and their thirteen “rules of engagement” out of fear of ending up in prison?
Whatever....
I will not donate to a party that has clearly been castrated. Bush could start the party on the road to recovery by giving Berger that lie detector test he’s supposed to take. I mean, Berger IS eligible soon to regain his security clearance....
Can I go throw up now?
When I was a teenager I did phone solicitation. I had a lot less ethics back then and had not yet become a Christian. It was a way to make grown up money because people couldn’t tell I was a kid.
I worked for Dial America selling magazines, I worked for the Robb Report promising that our subscribers were suckers so you should advertise your luxury product there and get more than it was worth.
I even worked for a “policeman’s ball” type fund raise that was barely legal. Even though some of the money went to real cops, fake cops were sent to collect the checks once they had someone’s address.
The most dishonest of all - and the employer who made me quit the business, was the Republican party. They ripped off everyone. The promised employment terms were generous so several of my friends followed me there. They stole our wages, they lied to registered Republicans, the concerts they were selling tickets for never happened and they pushed us to concentrate on calling older Republicans and pressure them.
If, by some unfortunate chance, the Republicans are still using the same organization, there may be more to the story than just “screwing the base” problems. But hopefully the GOP already cleaned house in the telemarketing department and this is a different group.
Me: "Hello, sir, I'm from the RNC and I'm hoping you will contribute money today to help us pass this immigration bill.Oh, yeah, I'm in for that sweet phone bank work.
Victim: "But I hate that bill. It's pure amnesty. And I hate my Republican senators for being traitors.
Me: "But we can pass this. It would be wonderful. And it's not an amnesty."
Victim: "It is too. Just drop dead, all of you traitors."
Me: "I'm so glad you agree with us on the not-an-amnesty bill. Can I write you down for $100 today, sir?"
Victim: "I pray daily for the death of all those who are voting for this zamnesty."
Me: "Sir, perhaps you could support us with $50 today."
Victim: "I'd pay $50 to see an angry mob beat the crap out those worthless Senate RINOs."
Me: "Will that be check or credit card, sir?"
Victim: <click>
They fired the phone solicitors. Seems like the RNC is showing the same sense the American car makers did in the 70s and 80s. Buy what we make since were not changing what we sell.
In the past I gave regularly to the RNC. I have been getting requests from donations by mail with the ‘no postage required’ envelope. So I take a piece of paper and write “ NO AMNESTY” and mail it back. Let the RNC pay for my opinion! Of course I have been doing this for over a year. Apparently they aren’t listening.
I was getting a lot of frantic calls two weeks ago, from both National and State republican organizations. I basically told them to quit calling as I would not be giving until Washington understands that we do not want amnesty. I even had one guy suggest that I run and I said that I didn’t want to go to Washington and become corrupt like everyone else seems to do.
Count me in as someone who stopped giving to the RNC a few years ago when I first heard Bush’s stance on this. What a waste.
Well, maybe we should believe the spokesperson for the RNC denying this is in part related to a drop off in financial contributions due to amnesty. They are usually forthright and honest with us. Aren’t they? remember that time they said they’d build the fence for the border? Oh, right...never happened.
Last time I gave to any Republican financially was in 2006, and those donations went directly to pro-enforcement Republicans. I’ve been ripping up any mailed pleas for funds from the RNC for quite awhile now.
The party can got to hell for all I care with this amnesty passage. They’ll have effectively sentenced themselves there anyway as all the newly minted “Americans” astound them by voting Democrat despite their great “sensitivity” and struggle against the yahoos in their own party.
I read from a reader on NR that this is the equivalent of “War of Roses” betwween the President and his former conservative loyalists. Sounds about right.
What a bum break ... 99 per cent of the people on their call list are bigoted scare-mongers who don't want what's best for America.
Heh ... what I like about this is that, being in the Washington Times, this article will be seen be all the GOP Congress critters.
Those stupid bastards dont care.This amnesty comes from the top and is paid for by big business(corporations.Melman needs to be run out of town on a rail. Come to think of it so does horge arbusto.
Sure, fire the phone solicitors who are only the bearers of this “no amnesty” message.
I have has SOOOOO much fun with the recent calls I have gotten. I always make sure to tell the poor solicitor that I know they have nothing to do with the hairbrained schemes our dear sweet politicians come up with, but they do seem willing to hear me out. And I feel so much better. I used to give the party money, especially come presidential time, so payback’s been sweet.
Chortle pingie!
The Bush family destruction of the GOP continues apace. If their agent in California is any indication, there is no limit to how far left they'll go. Oh, but conservatives fell for him because he could win!
Don't blame me; I voted for Keyes.
In the past I gave regularly to the RNC. I have been getting requests from donations by mail with the ‘no postage required’ envelope. So I take a piece of paper and write “ NO AMNESTY” and mail it back. Let the RNC pay for my opinion! Of course I have been doing this for over a year. Apparently they aren’t listening.