I received a "canvass" from the RNC.

[grumpyduck]

I don't have a clue why I'm on their mailing list, but this is like the fourth one I've received in the last year or two.

Anyway, I had to do a slow burn at some of the questions. I can't quote them here because of the rules, but let's say they were worded specifically to get the answers they wanted by getting responders pissed off: "radical left," "socialists," "packing the courts," "defunding the police," and so on and on. I wrote BULLSHIT right across four of them.

Other questions were like "do you agree with Republicans that..." In a couple of cases I crossed out "Republicans" and said yes. One of them was whether schools should go back to teaching civics and history. Another one I agreed with was whether political correctness had gone out of control.

But those longer questions really pissed me off. "Packing the courts," right. Who's been packing the courts?

Of course there was a request for money at the end, but there was also a choice: "I can't send a donation now, but here's $15 to help pay for the cost of processing this canvass." Yeah, right. And of course responders have to provide postage.

Fuck 'em.

[SCantiGOP]

1. I had one years ago from Joe "you lie!" Wilson

A section on gun control had questions like “Do you think you have the right to defend yourself and your family from a vicious criminal attack?”
Weeks later I got a fundraising letter asking me to help him protect our 2nd Amendment, and stating that 85% of his district was opposed to Democratic “gun-grabbing” attempts. I guess the other 15% were militant pacifists.

[Tadpole Raisin]

2. I had one of those once and put every bit of the mailing in the postage paid envelope provided.

Felt pretty good dropping that in the mail. I give nothing and they paid for it.

[GoCubsGo]

4. I hope you tore it all to tiny shreds before you put it back in the envelope.

Along with maybe some glitter. And, threw a few metal washers in for added weight to jack up the cost of postage.

[MineralMan]

3. Next time you get something like that,

scan the pages and save them as .jpg files. Then post the images, one at a time, on your twitter feed, and link to them here, so we can all see them. Also, you CAN quote stuff like that here, in as much detail as you wish. The copyright restrictions on DU only have to do with publications being quoted here. A piece of mail you received from a political party is not protected by those rules.

Fuck the GQP!