{"id":5974,"date":"2008-05-09T19:38:21","date_gmt":"2008-05-10T02:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5974"},"modified":"2008-05-10T03:39:20","modified_gmt":"2008-05-10T10:39:20","slug":"if-you-cant-beat-em-push-poll-em","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5974","title":{"rendered":"If You Can&#8217;t Beat &#8216;Em, Push-Poll &#8216;Em!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/RNC_PushPoll_050908_Sample.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Though the candidates may change (sort of), the playbook remains the same.<\/p>\n<p>That playbook &#8212; the public face of the Republican National Party, in any case, as you can expect to see it from here through November &#8212; is posted below, courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fourfreedomsblog.com\">BobR<\/a>, who sends the following along with it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">My brother is a <b>registered independent<\/b> in a suburb of Atlanta, GA. Yesterday, he received a letter and questionnaire from the Republican party. The letter contained his (independent) registration number, and addressed him as Fellow Republican. <\/p>\n<p>The questionnaire was a push poll of the nastiest variety. Sample questions:<\/p>\n<p>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?<\/p>\n<p>Should we do everything we can to stop Democrats from weakening border security?<\/p>\n<p>Should Republicans fight for a balanced budget? <i>(why start now?, LOL)<\/i><\/div>\n<p>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 &#8220;your <b>GOP CENSUS<\/b>&#8230;to ensure we get ample and accurate results.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Unless they get &#8220;accurate results,&#8221; the letter warns, Republican Congressional leaders &#8220;will not know how you and other Republicans at the grassroots level of our Party feel about the critical issues facing our nation&#8221; and &#8220;our Republican nominee for President of the United States (<i>ed note: Hmmm&#8230;he&#8217;s not named for some reason, I wonder who it is?<\/i>) will need your input before he does battle with the Democrat machine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Unless this form is filled out and sent in, the &#8220;RNC will be unable to develop a conservative legislative agenda!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;accurate results&#8221; they&#8217;re looking for, of course, are the addresses of those chumps dumb enough to send it back &#8212; with or without the donation they also request &#8212; in this case, the Independent, non-Republican voter who&#8217;s been targetted by the shameless Republicanists.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, if you have any questions about their &#8220;census document,&#8221; the RNC was kind enough to offer their phone number in the letter, and at the end of the &#8220;survey.&#8221; It&#8217;s 202-863-8747.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s their same, tired old playbook. Between this, and their continued efforts to suppress the votes of <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5960\">nuns<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5972\">vets disabled by their wars<\/a>, victory should be just around the corner&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/RNC_PushPoll_050908_Front.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/RNC_PushPoll_050908_Back.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/RNC_PushPoll_050908_CoverLetter_Page1.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/RNC_PushPoll_050908_CoverLetter_Page2.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/RNC_PushPoll_050908_CoverLetter_Page3.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/RNC_PushPoll_050908_CoverLetter_Page4.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<div class=\"BBTOORepost\">Prices now <i>slashed<\/i> in <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5705\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG&#8217;s Fund Drive!<\/strong><\/a> Please support our continuing coverage of your election system, as found <em>nowhere<\/em> else. <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5705\">Click here<\/a> for a number of cool new collector&#8217;s edition Premium products <b>now available starting at just $5!<\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though the candidates may change (sort of), the playbook remains the same. That playbook &#8212; the public face of the Republican National Party, in any case, as you can expect to see it from here through November &#8212; is posted below, courtesy of BobR, who sends the following along with it. My brother is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,295],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-rnc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5974"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}