Taxpayer Campaign Ads
“This mailing was prepared, published, and mailed at taxpayer expense.” Ever get something like that in the mail? I do — all the time. And I shouldn’t get single thing marked that way. Every last one of those pieces of mail is government fraud, waste, and abuse.
The one I just got this week is REALLY expensive. It’s a giant poster-like thing that folds up. Unfolded it’s about 13″ tall and 36″ wide. It’s cover claims it’s the “2007 Annual Congressional Report 110th Congress of the United States, 1st Session.” It’s chock-full of government-speak. For example, in one paragraph it claims this Congressman “won’t stand” for “business as usual in Washington” — and in the next sentence explains how he helped Washington continue with business as usual.
Oh, it’s also filled with how much this Congressman “fought” for MY money to give it away to others. It’s got facts and figures — like how they gave away free cash to over 6,808 people who did nothing to earn the cash other than to whine to the government — who used guns to take that cash from me to give to them. It’s got a whole page of cash giveaways to OTHER government agencies: $20,938,147.00 worth (I added them up). And EVERY LAST PENNY of that was the federal government taking money from people who earned it TO GIVE TO GOVERNMENT AGENCIES. And this is supposed to be good?
The brochure also talks about how wonderful the Congressman is. It gives contact information for him (like you might actually get him on the phone — he’s quite busy giving away all this money that’s not his you know). It outlines his position on increasing government control and power. Oh, and it mentions his name — no less than 14 times — with two pictures.
In other words, this is clearly and openly campaign literature. No one will the slightest bit of sanity could ever argue using any form of known logic that this is anything BUT a campaign piece. But keep in mind — paid for by YOU, no matter where you are, because this is federal taxpayer funds being used. Do you suppose it’s coincidence that I got this mailing about the same time that someone else announced that they would be running against this Congressman in the Republican Primary?
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OK… this is my idea, so you know it’s going to be crazy, but…
Find 2 or 3 of Conservatives to register Democrat (make sure they carry a barf bag along when they do it!) Then have them all sign on to run in the Primary against the spend crazy Congressman. This “steals votes away from him” as many vote “blind” anyway. The more you can run, the better the odds one of them will get the #1 slot on the ballot which will steal more votes. Then if one of them actually wins the Primary, you have either a closet or declared Conservative in there for 4 years regardless of who wins the election!!! If the Dems can gerrymander the entire state, you have to come up with stategies that will dumb down the liberal insane spending and raising taxes!!!! The thing is, you don’t even have to spend a lot of money in the primary as the masses don’t pay any attention to campaign literature anyway. They will many times vote because they “like the name” or it’s a “good looking candidate” or any number of dumb reasons. But they rarely vote because they know where they stand on issues. If there are many who are fed up with the incumbent, they will randomly pick another too. It’s all a crap shoot. You would do well to throw a woman in the mix to draw that demographic as well… LOL!!! I know, I’m nuts.
Good idea — except this Congressman is a Republican.
Then find some Conservative Libertarians to nudge him out in the primary! It can work in reverse. The idea is, the more candidates on the ballot, the more he fades into the background on election day.
You have to get rid of that Demonrat in Republican clothing.
I should be a Spin Master!!! LOL!!!! 
And you still overwhelm the Democrat opposition with Republicans in Democrat clothing as well.
I like the idea of running conservative Democrats — but keep in mind, in North Carolina, Democrats have literally run the state for over 100 years. There has NEVER, in all of history, been a Republican majority (sure, more people have VOTED Republican, but that doesn’t matter).
So in order to get accepted by the Democrats, and permitted to run a campaign, you have to be part of them. It’s a nasty, horrible system — which is why Democrats like it so much!
My town is loaded with Democrat corruption. So I know what you mean. But I think if you put enoungh conservative Dems on the ballot in the primaries, you can truly “mess with their tight little system”. Just a thought.
Maybe I should register Democrat. Then if I win, I can be part of the ruling class AND mess things up from the inside.
Or you can take the stance of the “traditional Southern Democrat”. The reason Conservative Southerners used to register and join the Democrat party in the south was because so many, for so many years after the Civil War, hated “those ole Yankee Republicans” because Lincoln was the first Republican President.
After the Kennedy and then Johnson White House, the reason you had so many Southern Democrats exit the party is the fact that they were truly Conservatives and they hated what those Dems did. Now when one understands History, Democrats and Southerners, then you can find ways to fight the corrupt Democrat Party Machines. It was just the fact that for a 100 years or so, after Reconstruction, Southerns still held onto their anger at “Yankee Government” that Republican minded politicians still would call themselves Democrats. How do I know and understand this? My mother’s entire family were Southerners and Democrats who transplanted in Indiana and Michigan for jobs in the 1930s and 40s. Add to that my study of Civil War History, my Geneology and tracing my Great grandfathers service in the Confederate Army… I figured a good deal out. That is what led me to understand that I am in fact a Conservative after 50+ years. LOL!!! Bullheaded too, as my sister figured that out during the Jimmy Carter administration!
They STILL vote that way in North Carolina. I can’t tell you how many people I’ve met that vote Democrat because their Daddy told them to.
The way to combat it… become a “true conservative Southern Democrat” but don’t tell anyone it is really a Republican thing. Get involved in the community through charitable work or whatever makes peeps able to meet and get to know you outside of politics.
Just call me Ms. Spin. I bet I could get Attilla the Hun elected!!!!
Then when you run, they know you, like you because they have had the opportunity to know you are a good man or have heard from someone how cool you are… and Oh lordy… he’s a Democrat! That means I can vote for him!!!!!!
I’d be okay with that plan — until I got elected. You see, the Democrats in this legislature rule with an iron fist. If you don’t vote the way they want you to, they will take away your office, your phone, and other basic items that a legislator needs to do his job. Then, when election time comes, they will bring another candidate up to replace you and fund them to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars (literally).
So it would be fun for one term!
One term is all it takes to start a revolution!!! LOL!!! Maybe we could get corporate sponsorship from other conservatives… to provide the phone when it gets taken away… campaign funds for the next election, etc.
I consider it many times, believe me. Nearly every year.
Don Quixote is my hero