Though the candidates may change (sort of), the playbook remains the same.
That playbook — the public face of the Republican National Party, in any case, as you can expect to see it from here through November — is posted below, courtesy of BobR, who sends the following along with it.
The questionnaire was a push poll of the nastiest variety. Sample questions:
Should Republicans do everything they can to prevent liberal Democrats from repealing the USA Patriot Act and other important laws that help our intelligence agencies protect America?
Should we do everything we can to stop Democrats from weakening border security?
Should Republicans fight for a balanced budget? (why start now?, LOL)
The push-poll and the letter that came with it, follow in full below. Of course, the letter pleads with the reader to send back “your GOP CENSUS…to ensure we get ample and accurate results.”
Unless they get “accurate results,” the letter warns, Republican Congressional leaders “will not know how you and other Republicans at the grassroots level of our Party feel about the critical issues facing our nation” and “our Republican nominee for President of the United States (ed note: Hmmm…he’s not named for some reason, I wonder who it is?) will need your input before he does battle with the Democrat machine.”
Unless this form is filled out and sent in, the “RNC will be unable to develop a conservative legislative agenda!”
The “accurate results” they’re looking for, of course, are the addresses of those chumps dumb enough to send it back — with or without the donation they also request — in this case, the Independent, non-Republican voter who’s been targetted by the shameless Republicanists.
Fortunately, if you have any questions about their “census document,” the RNC was kind enough to offer their phone number in the letter, and at the end of the “survey.” It’s 202-863-8747.
Anyway, here’s their same, tired old playbook. Between this, and their continued efforts to suppress the votes of nuns and vets disabled by their wars, victory should be just around the corner…
Brad sedd:
That really fits the pattern “it is the voters fault” … which is unfucking believable.
They lie and bullshit the voter into voting for them (congress votes for Iraq, Bush, etc.) and then they condemn the voter for being persuaded.
Well, I can’t figure out why I want to fucking blame those who vote for those neoTurds … and therefore agree with these facists …
SEE?? They are liars on a level so exalted, I think the only thing to do is burn them at the stake 😉 …
Fuck all the fascist Amurkan pigs … bury them deep in the bowels of mother earth they are stabbing, shooting, and destroying …
Dredd sedd:
Uh huh, so, If you send the letter back then they know you’re going to vote.
If you don’t send it back they figure you’re not going to or vote Dem?
What a perfect way to find voters to vote for on them electronicle poll books (insert Bush giggle here)
Yeah, I get those push/poll letters from the Republicans too. What I do is fill their return envelope up with ACLU literature, or whatever other bulk mail I’ve recently received from Liberal organizations, and send it back to them, at their postage expense! Oh, but first, I remove any bar codes, or information containing my real name or address, with scissors.
Maybe they didn’t mention the candidate name because Dr Ron Paul has quietly been chipping away at McCain’s delegate lead. The Primary delegate process didn’t stop once the mainstream media turned their head away and gleefully ran off to the next race. Local Paul supporters have not only gotten several hundred delegates (hopefully to push for a brokered convention) but have pushed Paul policies into the republican party.
http://www.nolanchart.com/article3438.html
http://www.nolanchart.com/article3508.html
http://www.nolanchart.com/article3588.html
http://www.nolanchart.com/article3664.html
of course all optimism aside I would still send a brick back if I got one of those push poll letters
I’m going to call them and ask why they continue to use the word “Democrat” incorrectly! Are they morons or First Grade children with petty jealousies?
did the envelope say do not forward? caging going on? or answer it “wrong” and get removed from the poll books?
I once got one of these from the NRA and returned it with the address changed to National Gun Nut Association and all the questions answered oppositely to what they were pushing for. Needless to say I never heard from them again.
I’m saying DO NOT SEND THE LETTER BACK if you are registered as an indy, then go and vote in person as late in the day as you can to see if your vote was possibly already used.
It has happened in Georgia before but we don’t know if its random or systemic.
Yeah, so? I get the same things all the time from the DNC, the Democratic Party, etc.
Sure, it’s disgusting, but both sides do it.
In part, that’s what keeps me in the Green Party.
Velveeta #5
If you will notice, those who slay the language descend memetically from A.Johnson, preznit of the rebel states in the south (the first preznit blush), who once said:
Hence the moronic morph engendered by the psychotic fear of realizing it really is the left that is democratic, and it really is the right that is fascist.
#7 Lord Balto 🙂
I must admit, not being from the US, that I didn’t know the “Democrat” was an insult at first.
What kind of gets my goat is the US being called “America”…when we(Canada) are part of North America, so most of the Middle East countries lump us in with you.
My pet peeve.
GWN #12
Yep, “it is haaaarrrrrrdddd to figgguuuurrr out true Amukanism someimes … that’s why I fuck condi … betimes …” (lil’ bush).
Lordy Lordy #7
Sorry bro, all you lord dooods gotta die …
😉
dig this …
Dreed #14
enjoyed the “dig this.” Thanks.
Are you, or have you ever been a member of the communist party?
I have been getting these too. I don’t know why. I’ve never been a Republican.
From page four,” an enemy who will stop at nothing to destroy our way of life.” Seems to me the Republican Party has already achieved that goal. And it only took them 7 years.
I’ve seen those surveys, too; the RNC for some reason got the idea that I am a Republican (I’m a Democrat, and active as such). My first impulse was to trash the thing, but then I thought – No, if they want my opinion, by cracky, they’re going to get it! I returned the survey with marginal comments on almost every question, and wrote at the top, “I am a DEMOCRAT! But, since you asked….” It was great fun. But what really puzzled me is that I kept getting more surveys from these guys. Do they not pay attention? Or do they not read English?
I’m thinkin’ “they” are both a machine and avid to learn how better to enrage you.
The neoTurds are stinking up the place even in decades-old republican strongholds.
November looks bad for them. I say good riddance.
Looks like KKK documentation.
My partner, a lifelong Democrat, got one of these on Friday. The thing that I noticed right up front was the big “Address Correction Requested” up front. Sounds like the dirty tricks of challenging voters that happened in 2006.
GWN said:
I must admit, not being from the US, that I didn’t know the “Democrat” was an insult at first.
What kind of gets my goat is the US being called “America”…when we(Canada) are part of North America, so most of the Middle East countries lump us in with you.
My pet peeve.
It’s insulting to refer to the Democratic Party as Democrat Party. You don’t see many in the mainstream media calling the Republican Party the Republic Party. This insult is by design and not by accident, compliments of Frank Luntz.
As far as America, I see it as shorthand for United States of America. And we are referred to as Americans. If Canadians were called Americans, then I’d agree with you. The song “America” from West Side Story shows this shorthand has been used for quite a while.
– Tom
Agent 99 #19
I wish you would stop drinking and start drinking … where is JoJ???
“Push Polls” were pushed forward with Karl Rove, and I was hoping that they didn’t survive his legacy, but I guess I was wrong.
Here is an interesting example of a Karl Rove push poll, ironically against John McCain (see link at bottom):
Bush’s campaign strategists, including Karl Rove, devised a push poll against John McCain. South Carolina voters were asked “Would you be more likely or less likely to vote for John McCain for president if you knew he had fathered an illegitimate black child?”. They had no interest in the actual percentages in the poll, the goal was to suggest that he had. This was particularly vicious since McCain was campaigning with his adopted Bangladeshi daughter. The sight of the little dark skinned girl made the seed planted earlier grow and John McCain lost South Carolina, effectively ending his run for the presidency.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/inde...itle=Push_poll
Does this make you want to vote Republican? To be fair, they aren’t the only “guilty party”, but will someone PLEASE treat me like I have a brain bigger than the current president?