Way back in 2008 I donated ten or twenty bucks to the Obama campaign. Ever since then I receive pleas for money and for filling out a “survey” from the Democratic National Party.
“OFFICIAL PARTY BUSINESS - OPEN IMMEDIATELY”
The letter, this time “from” Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, includes:
Melvyn, you are one of a select group of party leaders…
I am a Democratic Party leader? The last time I was an official party leader was in the 70s when I was a Republican precinct financial chair. Then came Reagan. I’ve been wandering in the political desert ever since with a couple of forays to support one or another independent candidate.
Now Reagan looks like a liberal and my only choice is pretty much to vote Democratic. The Democrats are several steps closer to reality and practical governance than the Republicans. Where are the likes of John Anderson, Arne Carlson, and Bill Frenzel?
I scribbled on a plea for the 2012 Presidential campaign that Obama should depend on his big donors rather than small donors he courted so well in 2008. I haven’t sent any money since.
Still the pleas come.
The return envelope is labeled:
SURVEY RESPONSE ENCLOSED – PLEASE RUSH
As with all political surveys, the questions and answer selections are biased toward the bias of the party printing the survey. They are meant to affirm the party’s beliefs rather than shape them.
Well, I will vote in November. That is a lot more than I can say about many who call themselves Democrats.
