George Bush signs a letter to GOP faithful about you-know-what

No, of course he didn't write it himself. But you can bet he read it before it went out.

George is calling for money.

President Bush's public approval ratings may be gathering mold in the Gallup Poll's basement. But the soon-retiring Republican president still has pull on the purse strings of his party members.

And, in a fundraising e-appeal to Republicans, the president is citing both the GOP's unflinching "ideals'' and the "focus-group''-free determination of the party's presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain. Bush is optimistic in a general election campaign in which Democratic Sen. Barack Obama has gained an early advantage by seemingly printing his own money, nearly $300 million worth.

Not to mention those "Liberal'' Democrats not standing up for national security and freedom from taxation. And despite what those unhappy conservatives within the Republican Party say about the Arizona senator and former POW, the compassionate conservative-in-chief maintains that McCain "is running on a clear, consistent and conservative agenda."

"There is no question in my mind, with your help," Bush writes in a new fundraising message, "the Republican Party can win this election if our candidates are true to our principles, boldly share the GOP agenda with the American people and are confident in contrasting our hopeful and optimistic philosophy with the Liberal vision of the other party."

Our colleague Mark Silva has the rest of this story over at the Swamp. And the complete text of the president's appeal is available by clicking on the Read more line below.

-- Andrew Malcolm

Photo credit: Fox News

Dear Republican,

As a dedicated Republican grassroots leader, will you work with me to see to it that we keep the White House and retake the U.S. House and Senate?

There is no question in my mind, with your help, the Republican Party can win this election if our candidates are true to our principles, boldly share the GOP agenda with the American people and are confident in contrasting our hopeful and optimistic philosophy with the Liberal vision of the other party.

The reason that I am confident about Republican success is because when the American people look at our ideals versus the ideals of the Democrats, the people are with us.

Our ideas and values are those embraced by the American people.  They may not be the ones who the pundits listen to, but they are the ones who are out working every single day to make America a great and hopeful place.

The American people want strong national defense and they want the government to protect them from further attack . . . they want lower taxes and less government . . . they want strong, principled leadership . . . and that is precisely what Republicans will give them.

I am also optimistic about this year because of John McCain and our candidates at all levels.  Our nominee is a man who will make decisions based upon sound principles, not based on the latest focus group or political poll.  He has the wisdom and the experience necessary to be the Commander-in-Chief of our United States military forces.

Our presidential nominee is running on a clear, consistent and conservative agenda and I can assure you he does not want a lonely victory.

That is why I am personally committed to helping our GOP candidates win -- and why I am contacting you, Republican, on behalf of the Republican National Committee (RNC).  The RNC is the only GOP organization permitted by law to directly support both our presidential nominee and our GOP candidates up and down the ticket.

Please help provide the maximum support all our candidates need to defeat the Democrats by making a secure online gift of $2,000, $1,000, $500, $100, $50 or $25 to the RNC today.

Your generous donation to the RNC is the single most important contribution you can make to ensure we maintain the White House and regain our majorities in the U.S. Congress.

Republican, I am looking forward to the campaign ahead.  I am excited about taking our message to the American people.  With your help and hard work, there is no doubt in my mind that we will win.

Sincerely,

George W. Bush

P.S.  Republican, Republicans have a great opportunity to retain the White House, reclaim our majorities in Congress and elect more GOP governors and state officials.  Your support is critical to providing the resources our Republican candidates need to win.  Please make a secure online gift of $2,000, $1,000, $500, $100, $50 or $25 to the RNC today.  Thank you.

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Comments

[hesingswithfrogs]

For the Love of God, BEWARE the Republican National Committee!!! What you are about to read is disturbing and may envelop you with a sense of rage and indignity. I, myself, was furious after reading these words.

"I am Mark Crispin Miller, a professor at New York University and a longtime analyst of media and politics. Lately my work has focused on the growing dangers of election fraud and vote suppression in this country. My books include Fooled Again: The Real Case for Electoral Reform (2005), and, more recently, Loser Take All: Election Fraud and the Subversion of Democracy, 2000-2008.

I believe that the right to vote is the basis on which all our other rights depend. And so the issue here is ultimately not the victory or defeat of either party, but the people's right to choose their government, and thereby live, and rule, in freedom.

Such was once the view of the US Justice Department, whose Voting Rights Division strongly championed the individual right to vote, by prosecuting all forms of illegal disfranchisement. Since 2001, however, the Department has turned a blind eye toward illegal vote suppression.

Take the case of Sproul & Associates, an Arizona firm hired by the Republican National Committee to run stealth voter registration drives throughout the nation prior to the 2004 election. Starting in the summer, Sproul's troops haunted public areas, posing as non-partisan opinion pollsters or petitioners for liberal causes. Through such deception, the firm worked to inflate the number of registered Republicans, by any means necessary. Closely following a script, the operatives asked leading questions-a form of "push polling"-in order to identify Republican respondents, and then asked them to fill out registration forms. The teams were orderd not to register Democrats or Independents.

Nevertheless, many Democrats filled out the forms—and those forms were destroyed. One Sproul worker in Las Vegas said: "We caught [my supervisor] taking Democrats out of my pile, [and] hand[ing] them to her assistant, and he ripped them up right in front of us."

More frequently, however, Sproul's troops bamboozled thousands of Democrats and Independents into registering as Republicans, either by secretly altering the registration forms, or by misleading people into thus re-registering themselves. Such service was expensive. According to their filings with the Federal Election Commission, the Republican National Committee paid Sproul well over $8 million—the RNC's eighth-largest expenditure of the 2004 campaign.

And what did the party get for it? Aside from ripping up the registration forms of many Democrats, the company created thousands of unwitting faux-Republicans, in Ohio, Florida, Nevada, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Minnesota, Michigan and Oregon. Thanks to those inflated numbers, there appeared to be more registered Republicans than there were in reality—a misimpression that would seemingly explain the party's upset wins in those states where the exit polls predicted otherwise.

In Ohio, for example, countless Democratic votes were stolen through the tactics documented in the full committee's excellent report on the election there: voter "caging," thwarted registration drives, broad refusal of provisional ballots, organized disinformation and intimidation, shortages of functioning machines in Democratic districts only, and numerous "machine irregularities" undoing only Democratic votes. Those tactics were used also in those other states where the exit polls predicted a Republican defeat—and where Sproul had also helped inflate the number of grassroots Republicans.

Thus Sproul not only broke the law, but may also have assisted in a larger plan to block the vote. (There are oddities, moreover, in the RNC's filings with the FEC, with nine expenditures, totaling well over $1 million, incurred somehow in 2005, suggesting an attempt to minimize the sum spent on Sproul's services.)
While the DoJ has winked at practices that disenfranchise tens of thousands of Americans, that now wholly partisan Department focuses obsessively on "voter fraud," which numbers in the tens.

And so Sproul & Associates clearly merited a full investigation; and yet the DoJ did nothing. If there has been a federal probe of Sproul's activities, I've never heard of it. Far from coming under federal suspicion, Nathan Sproul, the firm's director, was invited to the Christmas party at the White House two months after the election. And while the DoJ has winked at practices that disenfranchise tens of thousands of Americans, that now wholly partisan Department focuses obsessively on "voter fraud," which numbers in the tens."
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The Republican National Committee must be watched like Hawks. Watch their Money. Watch their Actions. Watch their Influence. Seek street-level information on their street-level operations, their registration drives, and their vote counting influences. Verify and Confirm Anomalies.

Don't let them get away with it!!!

[dave]

'our presidential nominee...does not want a lonely victory.'
now if that is not a reason to support the man - don't let the poor guy have to win all on his own, since the fix is in and he's gonna win anyway, backed only by his agenda of consistent corruption and the neocon/neolib crime syndicate he's running for...?
...or just ignore the mobsters and see who are the real, legitimate candidates, like candidate for president RON PAUL, qualified and principled, abiding by the constitution, with solid understanding of the issues, and workable solutions to correct the desastrous course, end corruption, and preserve liberty, prosperity and peace.