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Believe me, no-one is overlooking it on the GOP side. Seeing it as intimidating is the most common response to the letter that we have encountered.

The problem is that the letter was written so very nicely, without a single bad word about Roy Brown or any other Republican.

So if anyone makes a public stink about it, the Democrats point to this sweet letter and ask, “what was wrong with it? We were nicely reaching out to Republicans.”

And to independents who aren’t terribly engaged with politics (about a third of the MT electorate,) probably there would seem to be nothing wrong with it.

It was very skilfully done. The governor is an incredibly good politician.

As pointed out in the comments section of the blog, if W had sent a similar letter to big Al Gore supporters in the run-up to the 2004 election, one suspects that many Dems would have seen it has overtly intimidating.

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If I had received this letter, I would see it as an attempt to get me to contribute or else. The letter indicates how much I contributed to the GOP and if I refused to contribute to the Dims, then I better be on guard because they, the Dims, know all about me. This is underhanded intimidation tactics, with no need to spell out the consequences of refusing to contribute. The silence of not spelling it out speaks volumes. I see this as a prelude to something the national Dims will start doing. The Dims govern by fear.

Reminds me of the intimidation of what Chavez is doing in Venezuela.