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Having My Fill
Nice little email box ya got there… It would be a shame if anything happened to it. I mean we could fill the thing up hourly… This morning’s beg-a-thon letter from the Grand Old Party: 
Such a deal! The GOP is now the equivalent of the squeegee guy at the intersection promising to leave me alone if I just give him twenty bucks.
Obviously, the last thirty emails where they promised me “inside access” and a “voice in the national party” wasn’t enough. (It’s all my fault, folks. Had I made that $50 contribution earlier in the year, Mitch McConnell would have surely stood up to Obama by now. He would have listened if I had only greased the right palms with a picture of U.S. Grant.)
The three-week deal is a new approach. Usually the GOP waits until after the election for any of their promises to expire.
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The economics don’t make sense. Deletion is cheap and easy.
Hard to believe that regular people are cynical about the two political parties, huh?
I don’t remember the year exactly – maybe around 2000 – but I told the Michigan GOP person on the phone to take my name off their lists. I probably wasn’t exceedingly pleasant in the way I said it.
They did it! I haven’t had a phone call or mail of any kind from them since.
I am glad to be on Justin Amash’s e-mail lists, though.
So we’d get them from candidates, or in their name which is better than the calls which I still feel compelled to answer. Although with calls I can explain to the hapless innocent caller why I won’t give a penny to the party. Moreover give to one candidate and you get calls and letters from all of them. Vote for a candidate on some web site poll and you get a thank you letter and a flood of requests, then the rest pile on. What’s the alternative? we want them to get lots of money and trounce the Democrats and not be dependent on a half dozen contributors or bundlers although the latter is always exaggerated. The high rollers always have access anyway unless they visibly supported the Democrats, but then there’s Trump, not even that dented his appeal. At least I’m not getting e-mails or calls from him but that’s not enough reason to vote for him.
What in the world…
My contempt and disdain for GOP political efforts is exceeded by no man, the stupid party indeed, yet even I find it difficult to believe that an actual adult in the party signed off on this. It is more than a little disturbing that the GOP has an individual this stupid on the payroll or even as a volunteer.
Almost makes you wonder if they really want to win this election?
It was sent under the imprimatur of Sean Caincross, the RNC’s Chief Operating Officer. His RNC bio says, “Cairncross holds a J.D. from NYU School of Law, an M.Phil from Cambridge University, and a B.A., summa cum laude, from American University. Originally from Minnesota, he currently lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife and two children.”
He also extorts funds at intersections and the bottom of interstate off-ramps.
I just wish Reince Priebus would stop sending me birthday messages — that guy is creeping me out.
First step in not having the GOP look like the 1% club, get a leader who isn’t named Reince Priebus. Same problem that Jeb Bush has. Its the name. Guy could be the second coming of Machiavelli, and it is still a bad idea to make a guy with that name the head of your party when you are trying to appeal to the middle class.
“Michael Steele” is a solid blue-collar name, and we know how well that worked out.
Wow… you’d almost think that the GOP is trying to drive business to sanebox.com (use coupon code RICOCHET).
I saw that this morning. I thought it was hilarious.
I’d give them the $20 if they would stop calling me every day multiple times per day.
If the Squeegee Guy makes money…
I think they should send out: “Give us $1500 and we won’t contact you again until after the election”.
“It was sent under the imprimatur of Sean Caincross, the RNC’s Chief Operating Officer. His RNC bio says, “Cairncross holds a J.D. from NYU School of Law, an M.Phil from Cambridge University, and a B.A., summa cum laude, from American University.”
I’ve hired quite a few people to do marketing & sales, and very few of them have had law degrees.
Once you agree to pay any amount to any candidate to be left alone, you will never get rid of the hordes. Danegeld.
I hope this doesn’t give Jack Fowler any ideas.
Nice inbox you got there, Hill. Shame if anything…happened to it.
This reminds me of why I prefer talking about college football rather than politics.
Oh, I got off everyone’s email lists a while back. I only get emails from my own congressmen (current and previous, but that’s because I chose to stay on the last guy’s list). They really do take you off if you unsubscribe, at least in my experience. I evidently got them all through the RNC, so unsubscribing from the RNC took care of all of them.
Typical of the GOP–ignorance of how modern technology works.
Well, a normal name isn’t the ONLY qualification, just the first one.
A $20 spam filter? When the “unsubscribe” button is free?
My inbox is full of Democrat email, NRA email and Obama & Friends email. From the amount and type of Obama email you would think we are personal friends that for just a $5 donation will get me a place sitting at the same table as the President. It is amazing how cheap he is. The NRA want at least $20 for their AR15s drawing but for $5 I can win the chance to eat and talk to the President of the United States and leader of the free world. Amazing.
Not only that but you can actually designate them as spam and have Google auto-trash them for you.
This really is a staggering admission by the RNC. “We don’t have anything to offer you, but would you consider giving us money to go away?” Wow. The Whigs can’t believe they lost to these guys.
Join Ricochet and I’ll send you a mug. Join the RNC and we’ll give you 26 days before we ask for more money. Now, what’s the better deal, huh?
Oh, I don’t think it’s desperation. I saw lots of complaints in the media (from the folks who are unfortunate enough to be on everyone’s list) the last few days about how many fundraising emails people were getting. If you’re being annoying and you know it and you know they know you know it, you might as well admit it out loud. It’s an attempt to be self-deprecatingly funny and it sort of works, as fundraising pitches go.
It’s an improvement on “Give us money or the sky will fall!”
RNC,
Mississippi, Mississippi, Mississippi, Mississippi…..
Unrespectfully,
Notta Donor