A magnificent letter to the RNC about the Republican party’s betrayal of America
VFR reader Gary M. got a fund raising letter yesterday from Robert Duncan, chairman of the Republican National Committee, and here’s is what Gary wrote back to him:
May 25, 2007
Mr. Robert M. (Mike) Duncan
Chairman Republican National Committee
310 First St., S.E. Washington, DC 20003
Dear Mr. Duncan:
Ordinarily I don’t respond to form fund-raising letters. In fact, lately I have just been throwing yours in the wastebasket. But your most recent letter has provoked me to respond.
You want money from me. And you list a whole lot of reasons that you think are good and valid as to why I should give it to you. National defense, lower taxes, personal responsibility, etc. etc. All things that any normal Republican would believe in.
The problem is the head of this party doesn’t believe any of it himself. In many ways, President Bush is more liberal than his predecessor, Bill Clinton. With the exception of some puny tax cuts, and a couple of Supreme Court appointments that appear to be solid (we don’t really know yet, do we?), Bush has presided over an administration that more closely resembles that of Nixon or LBJ or Carter rather than Reagan.
Worse than any of this however, is the President’s foolish position on immigration. To hear Bush tell it, only Hispanic immigrants have family values and work hard. They are so noble that only they will do work that Americans used to do. Give me a break. Where Bush comes from, this sort of talk is known as “pissing in their face and telling them it’s raining.”
I own a small business and in no way benefit from the large scale, out of control immigration that Bush and the Wall Street Journal advocate. Finding literate, English speaking employees is more difficult and the social costs to support tens of millions of high school dropouts and their offspring will at some point bankrupt our country.
The other day Mel Martinez made one of the dumbest, most brain-dead remarks I have heard in a long time when he said that Hispanic immigrants will save the GOP. Really? I have news for Sen Martinez: poor people do not vote Republican, no matter how much they believe in God or love their children. Unless Sen. Martinez envisions a GOP that more closely resembles the corrupt PRI in Mexico, I would put the GOP’s life expectancy at about 15 years if this stupidity continues.
I am fed up with the pandering. I am sick and tired of being cheap-shotted by the likes of Bush and his errand boy Karl Rove as a bigot just because I hold mainstream conservative views on immigration and national sovereignty. I am in absolute disbelief that a Republican president would be on the same side of an issue as George Soros, the ethnic pressure lobby, big labor, the education establishment, and dirtbags like Cardinal Mahony the pedophile protector. But I guess when you want something, it doesn’t matter that you climb into bed with some scummy people, as long as they want the same thing too.
I am sending contributions to Tom Tancredo’s and Duncan Hunter’s presidential campaigns, and will give generously to any candidate who expresses similar views. However, I will not be giving any more money to the RNC.
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Adam M. writes:
I heard of an interesting tactic to attempt to sway some of our masters in Washington. The suggestion was to un-register as a Republican. The Republican Party might take notice if, in a short period of time, they lost half of thier registered voters. I hold out little hope for the RNC, which is a typically owned by the President and his minions. However, the congressional re-election committees might take note. It is relatively easy to re-register should that become necessary. And for myself, I live in Alabama—an overwhelmingly Republican state—and our Senators are pretty solid on the immigration issue (especially Senator Sessions).
Included below is my own good-bye letter I sent to the RNC.
Also, Americans for Better Immigration has an on-line scorecard showing how Congressmen rank on the issue by state. We should demand of our Congressmen that they act on this issue.
To Republican Congressional Re-Election Committee,
The President’s connivance on the Senate’s recently drafted immigration bill is dispicable. This bill is monstrous. It is treasonous. I am registered as a Republican in the state of Alabama. I always vote—every time. I will, at my earliest convenience, change my registration to something—anything—but Republican.
If passed, this so-called immigration reform bill will lead the Republican party to permanent minority status, and will ultimately doom it to oblivion. Your party (no longer mine) richly deserves that oblivion. I don’t care about your party, as it obviously no longer cares about me or any other legitimate American citizen. What is truly awful is that this bill will mark the beginning of the end of the American nation.
You are selling out your own people, debasing the franchise of every American citizen, and trading the birthright of your own children for a mess of potage. And when it’s all over and done, your newly minted mexican voters won’t even vote for you.
LA replies:
I’ve posted this, while leaving out several hostile expressions toward the Republican party that it contained. Sending statements of dislike, hate, contempt simply gets one ignored. Also, it would makes one’s recipient doubt that the letter is bona fide. Conservative talk show hosts and other conservatives have plenty of experience with leftists pretending to be Republicans and writing or calling them and saying, “I’ve been a Republican all my life, but when I found out that the Republican party opposed affirmative action [or whatever], I had it with the GOP.” To any half alert conservative, such a message is transparently not from a real Republican, and would be ignored. Similarly, if we write to Congressmen expressing complete hostility toward the Republican party, they’re not going to believe that we were Republicans in the first place.
Posted by Lawrence Auster at May 25, 2007 03:39 PM | Send