How many others have received this “Survey?” You would think that when asking for donations, the RNC could get their facts straight.
P.S. If I get a response from the RNC, I’ll share it on this thread and ping all who respond here when the reply comes. I’m not holding my breath, though.
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I got one too. EFF them!!! Not ONE word about our Military OR National Security. What the hell???
The department of “Hpmeland Security” is a friggin’ joke.
Haven’t gotten this mailing but I did get a telephone call from a party telemarketer. About 20 seconds into the call I said I don’t trust the party so I give to individual candidates. A slight pause, then he continued reading his script. 10 seconds and I reiterated my position. Another pause and he continues doggedly. I said this illustrated PERFECTLY why I don’t contribute to the party anymore. They just don’t listen.
The guy in a very weary voice says, sir I’m just trying to do my job. I said no thank you and hung up.
Friends who worked at RNC tell me they dont even read the replies, they just look for a check in the envelope. Kinda like those tv evangelists prayer request letters. They do try to stir your interest with the survey questions and they do make a note of who contributes. I always send back the postage paid envelope...empty.
I get those bogus surveys at least one a month.
The way some of the questions are worded are generally leading away from the solutions.
Of course we are all opposed to what Democrats and Obama are doing. But we are also opposed to what the GOP has NOT been doing to stop the encroachment of Marxism.
I say JOE Wilson should be the chairman of the RNC. Makes more sense to have someone who actually calls out the DemoRats for what they are and do.
Well done.
>>I’m not holding my breath, though.
If anyone reads it after discovering no check in the envelope, I’d be surprised. But, if they actually read this stuff, they’ll probably write you off as “confused” about complex issues that only the elite can fully understand, which is exactly what the Democrats would say about your answers.
Makes you wonder what the teams really are in this game!
I hope I get one.
One thing that irritates me a great deal is the talk about “A” guest worker program. That totaly omits the fact that there are boatloads of guest worker programs in place and have been for all of my 45 years. They insinuate through ommission that there are no guest worker programs which is a lie and adding one more won’t help a bit.
"Are you prepared to send a fat check or do you want more cliche buttons pushed?"
It was/IS a MORONIC SURVEY that any High School Student should have been given an F for creating! Having been a large contributor to the RNC and obviously my Favorite President(refer to tagline), I am at a LOSS to understanding where STEELE’S BRAIN and MORAL COMPASS are Hiding! THE RNC is LEADERLESS!!! May GOD HELP US!!
RNC stopped sending me their survey$ after I returned a couple of responses like yours (not as well-worded, I’m sure) expressing my opinion and questioning the RNC on why they haven’t ALREADY handled/addressed these issues. Last one I received must have been 2-3 years ago already.
“Mr steele,
I only donate to Conservatives and Conservative causes. This, unfortunately for you and the gop, means that I have no money or support for you guys until you return to Reagan’s vision.”
LLS
FWIW, my response to a similar mailing. And thank y’all for reading this. The RNC sure a hell didn’t.
July 23, 2009
Republican National Committee
310 First Street, S. E.
Washington, DC 20003
To whom it may concern:
Thank you for letting me participate in the census. Please bear with me as I cover a few items in detail.
Let me state right here, right up front, that I am a Conservative with a capital C. I’m not a Democrat or a Libertarian or a Progressive or an Independent or even a Republican. I am a Conservative. Period. When given a slate of candidates, I will always vote for the ones I feel are the most conservative, whatever their official party affiliation.
Having said that, I wonder what happened to the party of small government, low taxes, liberty and freedom? The Founding Fathers would be appalled and disheartened at what the Republican Party has become.
In my opinion, the Democrats and the Republicans are all moving to the left. And as you do, you leave me and other solid Conservatives in your dust. Clearly you must not care about this or else you would stop and head back to the conservative values listed in the previous paragraph.
I truly wish there was a political party rooted in consistent conservatism that stood half a chance of getting national candidates elected. I would join and monetarily support such a party in a second. Unfortunately, there is no such party.
On another subject, President Obama (I call him nobama) as done several things since being elected that I consider onerous. Such as: firing the CEO of General Motors, arranging special deals for the bankruptcies of GM and Chrysler (screwing secured bondholders while making sure his UAW buds get a great deal), appointing 25+ “czars” with no congressional vetting and no oversight authority, etc. Thus far, it appears to me you guys are letting nobama run roughshod over you and our precious country. What, specifically, (I DO NOT want just a bunch of words, we get that spew constantly from nobama) are y’all planning to do about this run away freight train?
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Regarding the census question closest to your heart, number 17: Before I donate money, would you be willing to give me a written promise that the RNC will give no support to the eight scumbag ‘Republicans’ that voted for cap & tax on June 26th?” I certainly do not want any of my money going to folks that obviously don’t care about the devastation cap and tax will cause here in South Carolina where about 80% of our electricity comes from that soon-to-be very scarce resource called coal.
A month ago you sent me a similar census form and I filled it out, sans donation, enclosed a letter like this one and mailed it off. I did not hear from you. If you don’t think my vote is important enough to respond to my letters, how can you expect me to donate money to you? Most days I feel DeMint, Cornyn and Kyle are all you have going for you. Y’all best get your stuff together.
I am by nature a very optimistic person. However, it is my opinion that any person, what ever their political leanings, who watches the “news” on television, reads the papers and surfs the Internet a little cannot help but come to the conclusion that the Republicans and Democrats alike are completely drunk on arrogancy, incumbency and power. Further it is my opinion that with the current recession/depression our country is in, we ain’t seen nothing yet. And, for the most part, y’all are not helping. It would seem you are scared to death of the Democrats. I am not. Grow some cojones. I fear really, really bad and dystopian days are coming for our precious country. I pray they will be bloodless.
Cordially,
upchuck
I received it yesterday and just tossed it. I’m not in the mood to be donating to the RNC this year at this time. When they start standing up and growing a “pair” then I might. For now, Michelle Bachmanb and Sarah Palin speak up more than the rest put together oh and Marsha Blackburn too.
I often wonder what they end up in their next life after being tossed in our recycle bin.
FYI Ping
Oh you spend far more time than I’d ever consider. My response usually consists of taking a red magic marker and saying “take me off the list you morons.” Particularly the one I received recently stamped “Past Due” on the envelope.
I do, however, get a little more explicit with the phone calls.
I received the survey yesterday and tore it open in the post office. I scanned down to see if it was a plea for money. It didn’t make it to my car. I deplore this marketing/fundraising technique and I doubt that anybody reads the survey responses. I think they open the envelope, subtract the check and trash the rest.
On reading the questions, they selected every conservative hot-button issue except national security. This is shameful exploitation of their electorate.
I think our number one issue should be term limits. Career employees have too much invested in their employer. If you’re a hammer, you tend to see the whole world as nails. If you’re a career government employee you tend to see every solution as bigger government; regardless of party. What this “survey” tells me is that the Republican party is willing to exploit our concerns and, as the author pointed out, they have repeatedly failed to act on them when they could have.
I attended the 912 protest in DC (at a cost of about $600.) I’m attending local political events searching for a candidate I can work for and give financial support to. Several of my friends are doing the same. I think a third party will only ensure we have more Democrats in office. So, how do we actually take control of the Republican party and re-center it (assuming it was once centered) on core philosophical values?
Another thing I think we should concentrate on is “health care.” By that I mean something entirely different than what everyone else means. The “insurance” most of us have through our employer is government mandated private socialized medicine. Socialized anything increases the price and builds in market-bending new realities. There are two areas where the cost of medicine have dropped yearly since their introduction. Lasik surgery and plastic surgery. How is it possible that the cost of these services has declined? Increased efficiency due to competition. Why is it happening for these two and nothing else in medicine? Because Lasik surgery and plastic surgery are not covered by “health insurance.” The reason that health care has gone out of sight is not that there are uninsured people. It is because some people ARE insured.
The second problem is that government has decreed that no one can be declined treatment because they can’t pay for it. Despite the “freeness” of their treatment, somebody does pay. You and me and every taxpayer and insurance provider. That “free” service is spread unequally across everybody who does pay. Before the government got involved doctors and hospitals were expected to donate some time and materials to indigent cases. There were charity hospitals. I don’t know by what mechanism these charity hospitals were removed from the medical scene, but they seem to be long gone.
Would I advocate that we turn away the illegal alien who fell off a roof and broke his leg? No. But nothing says we have to pay to treat his diabetes or lung cancer he got from smoking two packs a day. That should be the job of charity hospitals. It should be illegal and immoral to force somebody, even an anonymous taxpayer, to pay for the medical care of whole classes of people they don’t even know. And, further, if those people are here illegally, they should be firmly shown the door.
But, back to the issue of the survey, shame on you Republican leadership.