If we don’t [’set your record straight’], we risk Hillary Clinton as President with Bill Clinton the power behind the throne….

From their lips (fingers) to God’s ears.

And, thus, it seems to target a lot of “Reagan Republicans” who have no interest in giving the Party money NOW! There was a good reason their interest flagged after Bush-Pops, The Gingrinch who stole X’mas, and Bush-baby.

I can see them finding a Voter Registrar and changing their Registration to INDEPENDANT…or even…gasp!…DEMOCRAT.

The whole idea of the “Party” AUDITTING people even plays into the unpleasant mindset that Gonzo and the Pugs are out there checking into your bank accounts, political donations, etc. And who is this group of roaming “canvassers” that were out checking into your views on abortion, etc. If people don’t recall this group the implication is that the little snoopers were asking the neighbors?

Great job, RNC! Your begathon letter plays right into the points the progressives have been making all along about how the Republicans are the Party of the Police State.

“Our records show that you have not yet enlisted or encouraged a close relative to enlist in the Armed Services! We also have no records that you have voluntarily turned over your bank and phone records for review by the FBI. You have yet to make a $1000 Contribution to the Iraq National Redevelopment Fund. You haven’t reported any spurious activities by yor neighbors to the police, nor have you requested that your Congressman revoke all taxes on the nation’s energy producers. In lieu of that please remit $2400 to the 5 Republican Congressmen of your choice and an additional $10,000 to the RNC.”

Hi Eli – Thanks for this post.

I’m in tears right now. I had written a post about the Army nurse who was killed last month in Iraq – the first nurse to die in combat since Viet Nam. I just found a comment by one of her colleagues who is in Iraq.

What do you say? Words just can’t do it, and I just wanted to be there and support them all – the old nurse in me, and the old nursing administrator in me who could never let a nurse suffer alone.

And I can’t do a single dayam thing.

As someone who served in Vietnam (thank God I never even came close to getting hurt, though I lost count of how many patrols I went on), The first job I was assigned to was protecting a hospital unit. I don’t know why, there wasn’t any danger from the ground, and we kept trying to get them to install some sort of cover for the doctors and nurses. I had one friend in particular, she was an officer, I was not, so we were breaking all kinds of rules just talking to each other as equals, but it started one night, when we got rocketed, and we all piled into the sand bag shelter (more specifically, the guards went inside the sandbagged tents where it was supposed to be pretty safe), and I noticed that she was crying. “What’s wrong, I asked. You have a reputation for being one of the toughest people around here?” Stupid me. “I’m 27 years old, and I’m scared, she said. I’m terrified. I don’t want to be one of those people lying in there on a gurney.” I reached over (I mean, it was Nam, what were they gonna do, send me home) and gave her a long hug. “I’m scared too, Julia,” I said, probably more scared than you are, but if we just concentrate on the hugh and forget about everything else, we’ll never see it coming if it does.” We got out of that one. We sat together (on purpose) through several other rocket attacks. “Why don’t you go home, I asked. You could get out.” “’cause I can’t leave these people, no matter how scared I am. They need me.”
One night, when we got in off a patrol, I noticed that all the hospital tents were down, and there were body bags laid out waiting for the choppers. Julia was among them. I wish she’d gone home. A war always kills the best people. I’m sure everyone else in that tent were “good people” too. They were all medical people. I went to the wall last year, and for the first time, I took my son, who is 18, and told him, read as many names as you can. They are all your aunts and uncles, because they were all my brothers and sisters. And I stopped, every time, as I do, at Julia’s name, and I think of a pretty, young, red-headed woman with a face full of frecles, who wouldn’t go home because her friends needed her. She did not give her life for her country. Even then, it wasn’t much of an idea. She gave her life for her fellow soldiers, as I’m sure this person you mentioned did, and I thought “we would have been nowhere without these young men and women. (not that the doctors were any slouches either), but Julia should have lived to come home. Cheer up, N=1. Your friend died doing what she believed in. We are all greatful, whether it was then, or now. Dry your tears. We all have work to do. If you want to feel a little better, read the Gettysburg address. Linclon had it right.

noen @ 73

Bush never backs down, never ever. He always take it to another level. Which in the case of farmers means I can see him sending ICE out to intimidate.

Bush is systematically destroying the GOP base.

and the entire rest of the world, too.

Who could have known there was a bus THAT big?

And every single Republican presidential candidate kisses George Bush’s behind.

I wonder which one will be the first to finally say they have changed their mind and now they’re against the Iraq war. And, after that just how long it will take all the others to ‘reflect on the issue and come to the same conclusion’.

Their loyalty to Bush can’t last if they are to actually have a shot at getting elected.

While I was moving a medical library from one point to another at that time an envelope of nudie photos fell out of a surgery textbook into my hands. I kept it, they were fairly modest, 50s nudes, nothing really objectonable. I put that envelope into my postage-paid envelope from the GOP and sent it back.

The NR photo was posted onto the dartboard in our basement and eventually disentegrated.

If I got the letter mentioned, I’d write Fuck you in red magic marker in it and mail it back.

I hate these people.

My first thought when I read this story is it sounds alot like those sweepstakes letters that sucker the elderly into thinking they’ve won something but they have to buy a crappy product to get their prize.

Wait a minute, this is exactly like that, only instead of chintzy junk from China the crappy product is the GOP.

Bingo!!