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No mas? (Updated, bumped)
In my email a few hours ago:
I just received in today's mail a singular honor, an invitation from Elizabeth Dole to be one of 250 South Dakota Honorary Inductees into the Republican Presidential Task Force. She even enclosed a postage-paid envelope and an impressive Certificate of Accomplishment. This has really made me think about my priorities. I thought long and hard before preparing a reply suitable for the occasion.
Dear Senator Dole,
I received today your invitation to be an Honorary Task Force Member for a fee of $120. I thank you for your generous invitation, however, I cannot in good conscience accept at this time, or for the foreseeable future.
Since coming of age in 1968, I have voted Republican. My first vote was cast proudly for Richard Nixon, two months before entering the Army to go to Viet Nam. I have continued to vote for Republicans even after leaving the GOP in dismay in 1996. I voted for the current President in 2000, and was disappointed, even offended by the main items of his domestic agenda, the education bill, the prescription drug bill, campaign finance reform (sic), and the botched creation of the Department of Homeland Security and Transportation Security Agency, politically correct abominations more concerned with harassing American citizens to remind us we’re at war than in actually prosecuting the war by screening the Muslim passengers most likely to be a threat.
Despite my inclinations I voted for Bush again in 2004, in part because we are still at war, and in part because I considered John "Magic Hat" Kerry to be an even less acceptable alternative than Bashir Assad. I voted and hoped against hope for the best.
But now your president has chosen to sell us out to Vicente Fox, and to do so in a manner which is blatantly contemptuous of America’s citizens. Now we have been instructed by commissar Chertoff that we are going to get a "guest worker" (sic) bill and de facto amnesty, and that we should shut up and learn to like it. In this contest your senate is as much a part of the problem as the president. I have been following and studying the illegal immigration problem for considerable time, and I believe this is a sell-out of American citizens for the leader of a country which makes little pretense of its hostility. George Bush will be known as the president who saved the USA from Islam in order to betray it to Mexico.
Until such time as I see both an effective barrier existing along the length of our southern border, and a systematic deportation of the civilian invaders already here (undocumented voters to you), all eleven or twenty million of them, I do not wish to be associated with the Vichy Republicans, and I certainly will not give one more red cent. I suggest you induct undocumented Mexicans into your task force, and ask them for pesos. It appears they are the ones you have chosen as your new constituent base.
Yours truly,
George M. Mellinger
Of course I will be returning my certificate and other papers in the envelope she so thoughtfully enclosed.
- George
George, I can understand your anger, which I very much share, but in this case I think I have to side with Eric B, who replied to your mail thusly:
George,
While I respect your sentiment, I don't think there is a viable alternative to any Republican candidate. Any vote for a 3rd party candidate will end up effectively being a vote for a Democrat. There are a few Democrats that might deserve your vote (Zell Miller would be an example), but overall they will definitely be much worse. You might be able to affect the Republican Party from within, by participating in the primary elections or by participating in the Task Force you described.
If my choice is between some RINO and Hillary, I am voting for RINO.
Eric.
OTOH, Eric was talking about voting and you were talking about monetary contributions. Had I received the letter you did I wouldn't have been capable of writing a response nearly so eloquent as yours, so I probably would have settled for printing 120 copies of this picture and sending them to the dear Senator in the envelope she so kindly provided.
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Promoted from the comments 2006.06.14.19:30:
Bill,
You understand me completely. Yes, I was specifically referring to the attempt to hit me up for more of the money in which they supposedly are already rolling. The reason for bothering to write my angry letter to the Evitabeth Dole was one more attempt to warn them that they are in danger of forfeiting their base, to warn them the only way they understand, with a kick in the pocketbook.
Come election time I will be targeting my votes. In some races I most definitely will vote Republican. In other races I will vote for a third or fourth party, or write-in Ronald Reagan as a protest. As a Viet Nam Vet "baby killer", I will NEVER vote for a Democrat. And I see no point in voting for a "DIABLO" (Democrat In All But Labeled Opinion), a fiercer form of RINO, such as Arlen Sphinctre or Olympia Snowejob. If the DIABLOs come to dominate the GOP without conservative retribution they will keep their stranglehold forever, and conservatism will lose not only elections, and individual issues, but also their base and their very identity. To paraphrase Churchill "They have sacrificed their platforms to retain their seats; they shall lose their seats later."
Eric, and many others good men, do not remember an America before Reagan. I remember an America before Goldwater, when conservatives did have to hide in the closet. The idea that "we can outwait the RINOs and eventually elect another real conservative" is a fantasy. So long as the RINOs dominate, they shall strangle future conservative leaders a-borning, just as we should have eliminated them in the 1980s. They tried desperately to prevent Reagan, and failed in 1980 only because the Country Club had been so devastated by the Nixon fiasco and its aftermath. Solzhenitsyn could have allowed himself to be co-opted back into the Communist Party in the 1960s. He held firm, he sacrificed and lost, and eventually had the last laugh at the sake of the politburo. I also intend to have the last laugh.
Rurik
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On a not unrelated note, don't miss Joe-mentum takes a turn.
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