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"If You Can't Beat 'Em, Push-Poll 'Em!"

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COMMENT #1 [Permalink]

... Dredd said on 5/9/2008 @ 7:59 pm PT...





Brad sedd:

the "RNC will be unable to develop a conservative legislative agenda!" 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:

The death penalty must be abolished, except for government employees and contractors who commit capital offenses, until Amurka is banished from America.

COMMENT #2 [Permalink]

... Floridiot said on 5/9/2008 @ 8:38 pm PT...





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)

COMMENT #3 [Permalink]

... tommy paine said on 5/10/2008 @ 5:07 am PT...





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.

COMMENT #4 [Permalink]

... oneguy said on 5/10/2008 @ 7:05 am PT...





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

COMMENT #5 [Permalink]

... Velveeta Jones said on 5/10/2008 @ 7:19 am PT...





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?

COMMENT #6 [Permalink]

... paul martin said on 5/10/2008 @ 7:34 am PT...





did the envelope say do not forward? caging going on? or answer it "wrong" and get removed from the poll books?

COMMENT #7 [Permalink]

... Lord Balto said on 5/10/2008 @ 7:38 am PT...





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.

COMMENT #8 [Permalink]

... Floridiot said on 5/10/2008 @ 8:31 am PT...





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.

COMMENT #9 [Permalink]

... Jack Spratt said on 5/10/2008 @ 10:58 am PT...





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.

COMMENT #10 [Permalink]

... Dredd said on 5/10/2008 @ 4:41 pm PT...





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:

It is a damn poor mind that can only figger one way to spell a word. 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.

COMMENT #11 [Permalink]

... GWN said on 5/10/2008 @ 6:33 pm PT...





#7 Lord Balto

COMMENT #12 [Permalink]

... GWN said on 5/10/2008 @ 8:47 pm PT...





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.

COMMENT #13 [Permalink]

... Dredd said on 5/10/2008 @ 9:57 pm PT...





GWN #12 Yep, "it is haaaarrrrrrdddd to figgguuuurrr out true Amukanism someimes ... that's why I fuck condi ... betimes ..." (lil' bush).

COMMENT #14 [Permalink]

... Dredd said on 5/10/2008 @ 10:04 pm PT...





Lordy Lordy #7 Sorry bro, all you lord dooods gotta die ... ;) dig this ...

COMMENT #15 [Permalink]

... 72dawg said on 5/10/2008 @ 11:04 pm PT...





Dreed #14 enjoyed the "dig this." Thanks.

COMMENT #16 [Permalink]

... Larry Bergan said on 5/11/2008 @ 2:23 am PT...





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.

COMMENT #17 [Permalink]

... Matthew said on 5/11/2008 @ 2:30 pm PT...





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.

COMMENT #18 [Permalink]

... Jane Hawes said on 5/11/2008 @ 4:32 pm PT...





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?

COMMENT #19 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 5/11/2008 @ 4:47 pm PT...





I'm thinkin' "they" are both a machine and avid to learn how better to enrage you.

COMMENT #20 [Permalink]

... Dredd said on 5/11/2008 @ 5:39 pm PT...





The neoTurds are stinking up the place even in decades-old republican strongholds. November looks bad for them. I say good riddance.

COMMENT #21 [Permalink]

... Mugzu said on 5/11/2008 @ 5:41 pm PT...





Looks like KKK documentation.

COMMENT #22 [Permalink]

... WalterH said on 5/12/2008 @ 7:43 am PT...





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.

COMMENT #23 [Permalink]

... TomR said on 5/12/2008 @ 8:45 am PT...





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

COMMENT #24 [Permalink]

... Dredd said on 5/12/2008 @ 7:48 pm PT...





Agent 99 #19 I wish you would stop drinking and start drinking ... where is JoJ???

COMMENT #25 [Permalink]

... Hugh said on 6/9/2008 @ 3:33 pm PT...

