The Decembrist: Fundraising Letters that Work
You might want to read this particular Republican Fundraising Letter. What's it about? Simple!
" Please help us reach our goal of 450,000 AMERICAN grassroots contributors to the Presidents campaign."
This is a direct attack on Dr. Dean's unprecedented contributions from over 540,000 AMERICANS. Bush has been campaigning, or been president, for almost six years now. During that time he's amassed around 400,000 supporters, the majority of whom are direct beneficiaries of his policies. Dean's only been on this roll for about a year, and he's already got more individual contributors.
Bush's problem is that he's hit the folks who are going to give him cash already. Republicans have always relied on a small number of wealthy donors to drive their fundraising. They've done it through a laundry list of perqs and "access" come-ons. I've had GOP neighbors ask me to attend a dinner, or attend fundraisers, and $5,000 a plate. "Why?" I would ask. "Because you'll meet ALL the right people", they explain. "You'll be able to get to know people who can help you."
That's my GOP fundraising experience so far. We should probably note at this point that I'm Canadian, and as such, cannot (and will not) contribute to any election, at least in monetary terms.
That GOP fundraising letter is an attempt to mislead supporters into believing that the gosh-darned foreigners are trying to buy the election. Foreigners like George Soros!
Except....the Soros is an American citizen.
You gotta love these blatant attempts to fan the flames of racism and xenophobia. You gotta be scared of the people it works on.
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Ross, you might be reading
Ross, you might be reading too much into it. Probably not, but maybe. There was a flapdoodle last week about some of the Democratic party contributors being furriners.
Not that the Republicans' position is any more honorable for that fact, but at least they based their slanders on actual events for once.
Are you sure that the Republicans' lifeblood are blue-chip donors? I'd imagine that every veteran who drives a Cadillac and belongs to the Elks has given $100 or so to the Bush cause.
Ross, upon a second reading,
Ross, upon a second reading, I shall rescind the above. Regardless of the source of some few hundreds or thousands of Democratic funding, screw the crooks who wrote this letter.