Hi,
Tonight I got a very offensive email from the RNC. Following is what I received and my response. Geesh they don't have a clue either.
regards,
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Dear Mr. Steele,
While I am deeply offended by the democrat rhetoric concerning the protests, tea parties, etc. (Many of which I have personally attended) I must also tell you I AM JUST AS OFFENDED BY THIS EMAIL FROM YOU AND THE RNC.
I am a registered independent although I have contributed toward republican candidates from time to time and even, for a short time during the Reagan years had a membership card.
TO PURPORT TO REPRESENT THOSE OF US IN PROTEST AT THE TEA PARTIES AND TOWN HALL MEETINGS IS PREPOSTEROUS! Sir, I am in favor of the government getting the hell out of the health care business, and any other business that competes with the private sector. YOU DON'T GET IT ANY MORE THAN THE LIBERALS DO.
Mr. Steele, I suggest you subscribe to the Doug Casey report. They research and print the truth. In the issue I received today it says, "It has come to light that the nation's health care "crisis" is not a crisis after all. Instead it is actually about 8 million people who are uninsured because of chronic illness or working-poor status- a mere 2.6% of the total population of 300 million Americans." They then go on to break down the numbers and show what a farce the entire health care issue is. They then proceeded to take the $2.3 trillion cost the Senate Budget Committee applied to the program "we could give each and every one of those 8 million uninsured $200,000 with which to navigate the existing system, flawed though it may be." Your solution to the problem, while it may have less pain than that presented by the DNC is not solving the problem, it will still make things much worse.
As I have written on each and every request for a donation since John McCain was nominated, "My mouth is open and my checkbook is closed until you as a party decide to turn back to the conservative party of Ronald Reagan." Instead you bash Sarah Palin, you cannot even hold true to values and instead republicans supported corporate bailouts, cannot even band together to oppose the most liberal, non-consitutional supreme court nominee in history.
MR. STEELE YOU DO NOT REPRESENT US, INSTEAD YOU ARE USING OUR GRASS ROOTS PROTEST TO TRY TO RAISE MONEY FOR YOUR FLAWED PARTY.
Get you doo-doo together and, in you are lucky, perhaps you can regain the conservative base which you have clearly lost. I am sure I am not the first to warn you that a third party is likely going to emerge and put you out of business.
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Steele, RNC Chairman
To:
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 8:59 PM
Subject: Team Obama Calls You a Right-Wing Extremist
Dear XXXXXX,
The Democrat National Committee (DNC) released a memo late yesterday attacking you as a right-wing extremist.
We saw this sort of vitriolic rhetoric this past April when Democrats smugly dismissed grassroots protests against their out-of-control spending. These Tea Parties were ruthlessly mocked by the liberal elites and the mainstream media.
Now as public support for the Obama Democrats' government-run health care plan unravels, they're using this fear-and-smear tactic to silence ANY American who disagrees with their risky scheme to nationalize one-fifth of our economy and limit your health care choices. It's a page out of their standard playbook of name calling and outright lies to stifle all debate.
XXXXXX, Republicans want responsible health care reform that makes health care more affordable and accessible, and keeps you and your doctor in charge of your medical choices -- but we want to get it right and we want to do it without ramming it through Congress on a trumped-up deadline.
Help Republicans fight back against Obama and his political attack dogs' dishonest vitriol and tell them your voice will not be silenced. Please read the memo below from the DNC and make a secure online contribution of $25, $50, $100, $500 or $1,000 to counter the Democrats' outrageous and false charges today.
Sincerely,
Michael Steele
Chairman, Republican National Committee
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From: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 4:03:58 PM
To: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Subject: DNC Statement on Republican Mob Rule
For Immediate Release
Date: August 4, 2009 Contact: DNC Press Office
Phone: 202-863-8148
Statement from DNC Communications Director Brad Woodhouse on the Republican Party and Allied Groups' Mob Rule
The Republicans and their allied groups - desperate after losing two consecutive elections and every major policy fight on Capitol Hill - are inciting angry mobs of a small number of rabid right wing extremists funded by K Street Lobbyists to disrupt thoughtful discussions about the future of health care in America taking place in Congressional Districts across the country.
However, much like we saw at the McCain-Palin rallies last year where crowds were baited with cries of 'socialist,' 'communist,' and where the birthers movement was born - these mobs of extremists are not interested in having a thoughtful discussion about the issues - but like some Republican leaders have said - they are interested in 'breaking' the President and destroying his Presidency.
These mobs are bussed in by well funded, highly organized groups run by Republican operatives and funded by the special interests who are desperately trying to stop the agenda for change the President was elected to bring to Washington. Despite the headline grabbing nature of these angry mobs and their disruptions of events, they are not reflective of where the American people are on the issues - or the hundreds of thousands of thoughtful discussions taking place around kitchen tables, water coolers and in homes.
The right wing extremists' use of things like devil horns on pictures of our elected officials, hanging members of Congress in effigy, breathlessly questioning the President's citizenship and the use of Nazi SS symbols and the like just shows how outside of the mainstream the Republican Party and their allies are. This type of anger and discord did not serve Republicans well in 2008 - and it is bound to backfire again.
