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Not the response they wanted
Dear Republican National Committee
Before I get to my response to the fundraising letter you sent me today, please go see the comments of the new House Majority Whip's new Communications Director
.
Oh, you might also want to go take a look at the emails you are sending.
Now on to the response.
I am not some low-information, uninvolved voter. I assume you listed me as a registered Republican (more on this in a minute) because of a "citizens' congress" event I attended with Representative Joe Barton several years ago (he called me a better Lloyd Doggett than Lloyd Doggett- I'm still not sure if that was a compliment). I maintain a political blog. I have a fair idea of what is going on in my State, the country, and the world.
Further, I consider myself a "Tea Party" Conservative- note the word I did not use, that will be important later. I believe in limited, fiscally sound government. I believe that the Federal Government is supposed to be constrained by the Constitution- that it enumerated specific powers for the Federal Government and any which were not specifically enumerated were reserved to the People or the States. I believe "that Government governs best which governs least."
Since 2008, I have seen nothing that would make me support the Republican National Party, and much that disgusts me about you. People actively opposed to limiting government have leadership positions; those actively attempting to limit government are removed from leadership positions. When you had several chances to stop Obamacare cold, you have continually refused to take them. And don't give me "1/2 of 1/3 of government." The simple expedient of withholding unanimous consent during the "debate" over Obamacare would have ended it- no one was going to sit while 1800 pages were read so that a bunch of old men and women could hear them.
I could expound at length about how you seem intent on remaining disconnected from the American People (the vast majority support legal immigration while opposing illegal immigration or any form of amnesty, for instance, yet you continually seek "comprehensive immigration reform"). I could point out the awkward and pathetic attempts you have made to seem "hip" and "cool." I could point out time after time after time that senior Republicans have called those like me "the fringe."
But I will not.
Had I known that I had been registered as a Republican, I would have asked that registration be removed long ago. Any party of John McCain, Lindsey Graham, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, and John Cornyn is not a party with which I identify. Perhaps you can hit me up again when you have listened to the likes of Mike Lee, Pete Sessions, and Ted Cruz. Maybe I'll be more willing to listen when you grow a spine, or testicles, or both. Until then, no, not one red cent.
More Sincerely than you can possibly Imagine,
The Dedicated Tenther
http://dedicatedtenther.blogspot.com/2014/08/not-response-they-wanted.html
Not the response they wanted
Dear Republican National Committee
Before I get to my response to the fundraising letter you sent me today, please go see the comments of the new House Majority Whip's new Communications Director
.
Oh, you might also want to go take a look at the emails you are sending.
Now on to the response.
I am not some low-information, uninvolved voter. I assume you listed me as a registered Republican (more on this in a minute) because of a "citizens' congress" event I attended with Representative Joe Barton several years ago (he called me a better Lloyd Doggett than Lloyd Doggett- I'm still not sure if that was a compliment). I maintain a political blog. I have a fair idea of what is going on in my State, the country, and the world.
Further, I consider myself a "Tea Party" Conservative- note the word I did not use, that will be important later. I believe in limited, fiscally sound government. I believe that the Federal Government is supposed to be constrained by the Constitution- that it enumerated specific powers for the Federal Government and any which were not specifically enumerated were reserved to the People or the States. I believe "that Government governs best which governs least."
Since 2008, I have seen nothing that would make me support the Republican National Party, and much that disgusts me about you. People actively opposed to limiting government have leadership positions; those actively attempting to limit government are removed from leadership positions. When you had several chances to stop Obamacare cold, you have continually refused to take them. And don't give me "1/2 of 1/3 of government." The simple expedient of withholding unanimous consent during the "debate" over Obamacare would have ended it- no one was going to sit while 1800 pages were read so that a bunch of old men and women could hear them.
I could expound at length about how you seem intent on remaining disconnected from the American People (the vast majority support legal immigration while opposing illegal immigration or any form of amnesty, for instance, yet you continually seek "comprehensive immigration reform"). I could point out the awkward and pathetic attempts you have made to seem "hip" and "cool." I could point out time after time after time that senior Republicans have called those like me "the fringe."
But I will not.
Had I known that I had been registered as a Republican, I would have asked that registration be removed long ago. Any party of John McCain, Lindsey Graham, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, and John Cornyn is not a party with which I identify. Perhaps you can hit me up again when you have listened to the likes of Mike Lee, Pete Sessions, and Ted Cruz. Maybe I'll be more willing to listen when you grow a spine, or testicles, or both. Until then, no, not one red cent.
More Sincerely than you can possibly Imagine,
The Dedicated Tenther
http://dedicatedtenther.blogspot.com/2014/08/not-response-they-wanted.html
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