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To: fireman15

Conservatives with poor voting records need to get themselves snapped out of it. The normal tactics clearly haven’t worked for them so they need some tough love.


77 posted on 01/29/2016 10:55:41 PM PST by JediJones ("Beautiful, famous, successful, married - I've had them all, secretly." -Trump on women in 2007 book)
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To: JediJones

[they need some tough love]

I doubt if this letter is going make non-voters set their clocks to get to the caucus on time.


85 posted on 01/29/2016 10:58:35 PM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. - Psalm 33:12)
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To: JediJones
Conservatives with poor voting records need to get themselves snapped out of it. The normal tactics clearly haven’t worked for them so they need some tough love.

I am surprised that a conservative would advocate such a thing. No true conservative appreciates big brother trying to coerce him into doing anything. My reaction would be very, very negative to something like this. Quoting from a young conservative, “I nicked the census man.”

100 posted on 01/29/2016 11:03:33 PM PST by fireman15 (Check your facts before making ignorant statements.)
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To: JediJones

You aren’t helping Cruz here. Like, at all.


104 posted on 01/29/2016 11:06:21 PM PST by 20yearsofinternet (I'd vote for a Constitutional Conservative career politician in the general. Until then, GO TRUMP!)
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To: JediJones

That would not motivate me to vote for him. That would motivate me to vote against him.

If it was his intention to get out the vote, he should have used the mailer to ask the person to please consider coming out to vote for him. He should have tried to empathize with their problems getting to the poll. It’s too cold, interrupts family time, he knows they are too worn out from work, whatever. Play it up but encourage them by saying Cruz wants to undo all Obama has done and he needs their help. Send it to the specific individual without including information on the neighbors. Give them a real reason to feel a part of the Cruz team and get out and vote.

What the Cruz campaign did makes no sense. I don’t know who is advising him, but they are either brain dead or intentionally trying to ruin his campaign.


235 posted on 01/29/2016 11:40:21 PM PST by Waryone
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To: JediJones

You’re kind of creepy, too.


453 posted on 01/30/2016 1:01:23 AM PST by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the GOPee does not want you.)
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To: JediJones

Why not send a mailer with a direct plea for their vote and why they should vote for the candidate? Duh.....


616 posted on 01/30/2016 4:43:12 AM PST by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: JediJones

Mailing a person’s personal voting history to his/her closest neighbors is not tough love. It is a manipulative and jerkish attempt to intimidate a person. It might have worked on Obama’s herd mentality voters, but it will blow up monumentally with IA Republicans.


740 posted on 01/30/2016 7:44:10 AM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: JediJones
Conservatives with poor voting records need to get themselves snapped out of it. The normal tactics clearly haven’t worked for them so they need some tough love.
And I thought Ted was the creep.
866 posted on 01/30/2016 9:54:59 AM PST by lewislynn
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To: JediJones

Justify anything, eh? The ends justifies the means? So, if Cruz’ cabal of thugs next decides to tap their phones, go through their trash, or perhaps even threaten them with a visit from one of his commie Cuban operatives to show some “tough love” - that would be OK with you. Now I understand why I am coming to despise Cruz and his supporters.


981 posted on 01/30/2016 12:25:27 PM PST by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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To: JediJones
so they need some tough love.

Is self serving public humiliation the Christian thing to do? Or, to put it differently, should the pastor stand in front of the congregation and read the name of each member and how much each gives yearly to the church?

Moreover, voting is a choice. Not voting makes as much of a statement as voting. Sending out this card is disgustingly presumptuous that the candidate is owed your support, except for the laziness on your part. Whether it works or not is not the point. It is wrong and it certainly is not Christian.

1,068 posted on 01/30/2016 2:32:20 PM PST by Lagmeister ( false prophets shall rise, and shall show signs and wonders Mark 13:22)
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