Posted on 01/29/2016 10:28:45 PM PST by 20yearsofinternet
The personalized letters target individual Iowa voters and identifies them as having failed to vote in prior elections. They are admonished and then encouraged to vote this year. In addition the letters identify the neighbors of the voter, and provides their voting history.
The text reads:
"You are receiving this election notice because of low expected voter turnout in your area. Your individual voting history as well as your neighbors' are public record. Their scores are published below, and many of them will see your score as well. CAUCUS ON MONDAY TO IMPROVE YOUR SCORE and please encourage your neighbors to caucus as well. A follow-up notice may be issued following Monday's caucuses".
In an effort to shame the recipient, the notice also informs the targeted voter their neighbors have also been notified of the recipients poor voting record.
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(Excerpt) Read more at theconservativetreehouse.com ...
Total hyperbole. This is a totally silly, inconsequential issue with a shelf-life that will probably last another hour or so. We elect a candidate based on what they’re going to do for the country, not based on the format of a campaign mailer. The people who got this mailer needed it. It wasn’t directed at random voters, just chronic no-shows who needed some tough love.
I have no need to look for another candidate because Cruz is THE guy. There’s no one else out there as great as him. He’s the second coming of Reagan and he has my support until someone else as smart, well-spoken and principled as Reagan or Gingrich comes along.
“And I feel no shame in defending him from criticism over a silly campaign mailing. There are vital issues at stake in this election. The format of this mailer is not worth the effort and time to talk about. This is a fluff tabloid issue that no one will care about nor remember after a day or so.”
Translation:
I have no good defense for this, so I’m just gonna shame you have having the nerve to care. I just hope no one pays attention to this, because then that’s when stuff will really hit the fan.
I know where that came from...
Vote for Cruz. Just don’t try to defend this stunt. There is no way to justify this kind of mailer. None.
I know exactly what you said. You said there was no longer a conservative movement and that the nation is past ideology. I told you why I strongly disagreed and consider the promotion of such falsehoods threatening and dangerous. There is NO SUCH THING as being “past ideology.”
Your Jedi mind tricks can’t fool us.
PERSONALLY since you like to type in CAPS about NATIONALISTS and seem to demand a SAFE SPACE here I kind of think you should get a hearty ZOT.
You’re a lib. Good luck in your open-border efforts. Real patriots know a phony when they see one.
Cheech and Chong routine.
Jedi, the cats are waiting to be feed. Why don’t you hurry along and feed the 36 critters there will you? They are meowing up a storm.
LOL! Are you here all week?
“Sounds like we’re going to waste our time on another trumped-up non-issue instead of seriously confronting the encroaching socialism, leftism, political correctness ...”
What you aren’t getting, is that this kind of faux Statist posturing and shoving IS part of the encroaching socialism, leftism, and political correctness.
That’s your opinion. Not a fact. Most people are not ideological, at all. Voters are all over the place year in & year out. Most of them have no fixed politics of any sort. As for the current state of conservatism...it’s a mess.
Best retort of the night. LOL
OMG... I can’t stop laughing.
I am ROFL.
Oh, okay. Great. Thanks. “:^)
Boy you have a very twisted sense of right and wrong. People are free to vote or free not to vote. No one should be shamed publicly by a candidate because they didn't participate in a Caucus 4 years ago. Maybe they were on vacation or out of town or WORKING! Or maybe there was just no one they cared to waste their time caucusing for.
I think you are the only one on this forum that is trying to defend this stupid mailer. It was stupid. Deal with it.
So why are you the only poster defending it? Where are the other Cruz supporters justifying this?
Give up already! Is there anybody on this thread supporting you? You’re coming off like a desperate loon, another Baghdad Bob. Quit trolling the thread.
I'm trying to deal with my depression. I'm all out of prozac.
E-flat walks into a bar, The bartender says, sorry, we don't serve minors......
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