BREAKING: Michigan McCain Campaign Chairman Chuck Yob's Email to Sarah Palin

The Red Wings have four home games this month at Joe Louis Arena. I'm sure just a tour of the parking lots pre-game would be a huge earned media hit in the Detroit ADI.

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I suggest Todd and Sarah tour the UP on a snowmachine, starting on Nov. 5th. I hear the trails up there are freakin' awesome, jack. They will feel right at home. Good chance they could catch some great Wildcat hockey at Northern Michigan University. So rockin'. You go girl.

I agree that it was a terrible decision to pull up stakes in Michigan, especially this close to the election!  Whoever is managing the McCain/Palin campaign has been making some very serious errors.  I hate to say this, but I'm wondering if there is any chance that they have defected to the other side and are now working to sabotage this one from the inside out.  After all, stranger things have happened and large amounts of money can sometimes be an inducement to do things that one might not ordinarily do.  It may be worth your while to look into this; it could be a sensation scoop for you if it does turn out to be true.  Good luck, whatever you decide.

Back to the point at hand:  I hope that Gov. Palin does go to Michigan!  It will send a message to the entire state that each and every voter there is important to the McCain/Palin campaign after all. I believe that with their efforts redoubled, very positive results with be seen.   

In addition to that, I would like to see the efforts of journalists such as yourself, redoubled.  I would give anything to have the power that you do!  You can reach so many more people than I can, yet you aren't out there giving it your all, are you?  You even have more resources!  Please spread the word--we need help on the "right"  side of these issues.  I'm sure that you have clearly seen how the "left" have taken over the media and have even infiltrated your arena on the "right."  As far as I can tell, you are an honest journalist, which is a rare commodity, and all I'm asking is that you even up the score.  An article reporting something as simple as the Palin family's  releasing of their income tax records for 2006 and 2007 had to be finished with the following comment, just so that it would plant the idea of impropriety in the minds of the American people:

"The McCain-Palin campaign had said the tax returns would be released Monday, but it suddenly put them out Friday afternoon — a time long used by government to reveal embarrassing news because few people watch TV or read newspapers Friday evening and Saturday." 

How is that fair and unbiased reporting?  It isn't!  I'm sure that if I took the time to investigate parallel issues between the two sides, it would be quite apparent which side was being given a free pass--or more accurately, a book full of them!

In closing, if Gov. Palin does decide to accept Michigan Co-Chairman Chuck Yob's invitation, I hope that you will make an honest effort to do a story on her visit.  That way maybe, just maybe, we'll have a chance at an honest accounting of what actually happened while she was there.  The American people deserve to have honest reports from which to gain their information--that way they can make up their own minds!  Otherwise, we're no better than Russia; or pre-World War II Germany;  or even the Obama campaign--all with their propaganda machines.  What is this world coming to?

Sincerely,

Cynde L. Hammond

Dear Fellow Republican,

I am writing to ask for your URGENT assistance by making an immediate contribution of $25, $50, $100 or more. I am sure you’ve heard the news by now that the McCain Campaign decided to pull out of Michigan.

This move leaves a tremendous hole in our ground campaign that we must now fill. That’s why I need you to make an online contribution to the Michigan Republican Party so we can fully fund our Absentee Voter and Get Out The Vote programs that our Republican candidates are counting on.

With just 31 days left, we have a lot of work to do. That’s why I need you to make your contribution of $25, $50, $100, or more today.  Your generous contribution will be put immediately to use, funding Absentee Voter and Get Out The Vote programs so vital to victory.

I won’t sugar coat it; the McCain Campaign’s decision to pull out of Michigan is a tough blow.  But we cannot let it deter us.  Our priorities  have not changed. We must keep Chief Justice Cliff Taylor on the Supreme Court, reelect Congressmen Tim Walberg and Joe Knollenberg and our entire Congressional Delegation, protect our state House Republicans, and help Jack Hoogendyk in his battle against Carl Levin.

By making your online contribution today of $25, $50, $100, or more you will be helping elect Michigan Republicans and making sure we can fund the voter programs we need for victory.

Sincerely,

Saulius “Saul” Anuzis

Chairman

Paid for by the Michigan Republican Party.

Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.

www.migop.org

I'm sorry, but if you can find anything at all interesting or inspiring in this message, you're a better Republican than I.

I guess that head of the Republican Party in Michigan does not like to face the idea that he and his party have become irrelevant to politics.  I guess that failing to lead when given the chance, when running horrible candidates for statewide office, and failing to offer a clear vision of what they want to state has finally had a lasting effect.

I guess people like Patrick believe that if the Republicans in Michigan pull enough campaign gimmicks it will mean something because Patrick still does not realize that policy decisions have real effects on politics.

Wow.

I should preface any further remarks by declaring my opposition to both of your ridiculous political parties--why Americans themselves cannot seem to understand that they have a duopoly masquerading (badly) as some sort of representative democracy has been the subject of many books. Since most of you don't read beyond the narrow confines of the comfortably reassuring--if at all--another medium will be necessary.

Television would be ideal, as you tend to believe whatever any stern or smiling face looking at you from the magic box tells you, but the Owners are very much aware of the power they control here and it's become a tightly organized machine spewing gratuitous sex and insipid propaganda (both prominently featured on FOX, the flagship channel) for the central purpose of distraction.

Upon reflection, however, it might just be that the answer to the question of why the Americans can't see what's so bloody obvious to the rest of us--that they have a duopoly, parties in collusion with each other and with a sham fourth estate "reporting" on the struggle between "Left" and "Right"--could be reduced to a mere two words. Surely even ideophobic semi-literates can parse the sense of Willful Blindness.

Take this from your blog here. Instead of acknowledging that poor Sarah hadn't been informed of the "premature withdrawal" in Michigan because she's not a running mate so much as a fashion accessory, you take her gaffe and run with it, pretending that McCain hadn't already made his decision when he pulled his organs out:

Senator McCain has great appeal to Michigan voters dating back to his 2000 campaign.  He is a Maverick, independent-minded leader who has bipartisan appeal to the voters of our state.  He is the perfect Presidential candidate for Michigan.

From there, it's all pretense. Why can't you afford to be honest with yourselves? It's not that the "other side" might be right--you've both been fooled for some else's benefit. (People all need the same things, we are all basically the same, except for the infinite variety of our human potential, which is precisely what is most feared by those whose "choices"--the Police State or the Nanny State--are no choice at all, since both deny our autonomy...and this is why they encourage these stupid walls between us, meaningless divisions that serve only one Master.)

Examples? How about just here in the quoted passage?

* 2000~~in 2000 Rove went after McCain with all the Atwater dirty tricks that Republicans have become famous for. McCain acknowledged it--he cursed it, as you all should have, instead of pretending that the end justified the means, the great moral compromise of our age. (And isn't something that Straight-Shootin' John has Rove's disciples working for him now?)

* "Maverick"~~prove it. Show us one decision that bucks the confines of the duopoly game plan (and beware of your buzzwords & slogans--they conceal much more than they declare)

* bipartisan & perfect~~why would those words go together for a bunch of hardcore rightwing Patriots like you lot? Are we triangulating political victories, maybe pretending we're some thing we're not, or are we fighting for what we think we believe in?

And, finally, there's this amazing statement:

I also strongly believe that you are the best possible Vice Presidential choice for Michigan. You kicked Joe Biden's butt in the debate yesterday by showing your blue collar appeal and highlighting why Senator McCain's plans...

Best possible Vice Presidential choice? But let's save that for a bit--are we pretending that Palin won the debate, and that she did it by "showing her blue collar appeal" (all those winks at the camera and the shucky-darns!) instead of answering the questions? Do you really think that people who weren't already in your camp could have willed themselves to believe that she was being authentic with those gestures?

Or that repeating three talking points, without ever being able to describe what they meant in any detail at all, highlighted why Senator McCain's plans were any better than his "opponent's"? The incessant repetition of slogans without any deeper explanation only demonstrated her lack of understanding what she had been coached into reciting.

Or do you even deny that she had been coached?

Tell you what, go back in the archives, all the way to the Nixon-Kennedy debates, the last "real"  debates, where the candidates were at least capable, if not exactly encouraged, to speak extemporaneously, off the cuff, demonstrating their understanding of the demands of a complex and important job. Now compare that with the VP "debate" in St. Louis. 

Or is it more important to be "on message" than capable? To get elected than to pursue justice?

There is another answer that's less grounded in Machiavellian pragmatism:

"I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabrics of their life"

“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him”

-- Leo Tolstoy, 1897

This guy wrote a nice little piece about it, but be careful--he's from the other side!

and no fan of McCain the RINO.  If they do lose in November at least it will these kind of loser RINOs that will be defeated.

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