Rock the Vote tells RNC to go Screw themselves

[Jon8503]

The new Rock the Vote letter to the RNC is in response to a RNC threatening letter to Rock the Vote from yesterday. This is a pdf copy of the Rock-the-Vote letter posted as text below.

Mr. Ed Gillespie, Chairman
Republican National Committee
310 First Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003

VIA FASCIMILE: [phone]
Dear Chairman Gillespie,

The letter I received from you yesterday was quite a surprise. It struck us as just the sort of “malicious political deception” that is likely to increase voter cynicism and decrease the youth vote. In fact, it is a textbook case of attempted censorship, very much in line with those that triggered our organization’s founding some fifteen years ago.

I am stunned that you would say that the issue of the military draft as an “urban myth” that has been “thoroughly debunked by no less than the President of the United States.”

I have some news for you. Just because President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and Secretary Rumsfeld, and for that matter Senator Kerry, say that there is not going to be a draft does not make it so. Just because Congress holds a transparently phony vote against the draft does not mean there isn’t going to be one. Anyone who thinks that the youth of America are going to take a politician’s word on this topic is living on another planet.

By your logic, there should be no debate about anything that you disagree with. There’s a place for that kind of sentiment (and your threats), but its not here in our country.

There are questions that the politicians are running away from. How long can we keep 138,000 U.S. troops or more on the ground in Iraq? What if full-scale civil war erupts there, as the CIA has warned is a realistic possibility? Would the next President be faced with a choice of pulling out of Iraq rather than institute a draft? Would women be drafted? What exactly would the draft-age be?

http://americablog.blogspot.com/archives/2004_10_10_americablog_archive.html#109778994813162747

[Steelangel]

1. Rock the Vote is my hero

I agree with their points.

[glitch]

2. They tell lie after blatant lie and then wonder why they're not believed.

These are not adults.

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. Well done.

[PATRICK]

4. In case anyone is new to the GOP position

All their multiple tactics are based on the premise that Democrats are cheating by voter registration, GOTV and other voter turnout enhancements. This "cheating" is based on the common wisdom the GOP will do little to erase that most people will vote Democratic, especially in those poor areas, etc, where the likely Dem voters are. It has to do with real democracy and numbers.

Of course the fair thing to do would to make registration easy for all to end the "cherrypicking" or drive stuffing, which, while not cheating, is at least foolish. They know they can't help the majority, can't lock in their votes, can't win fair. It is a web of deceit and self justification that minority party uses to bully themselves into power. It means tyranny, injustice, fraud and no democracy. That is the end result no matter what they think in their snug little minds.

For every reform in the election process they demand some surrender of lawful advantages from the Dems, in much the same way rich Repug school districts want equal share of state school funding regardless of need.

They can't keep this up without a dictatorship.

[iamjoy]

5. So What's Next

"They can't keep this up without a dictatorship."

that's what scares me.

[mrdmk]

6. I have a question

The RNC, Ed Gillespie had this letter cc to the following persons:

Randel A. Falco, President, NBC Universal Television Networks Group
Vincent K. McManon, Chairman, World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.
Judy McGrath, Chairman and CEO, MTV Networks
Jonathan F. Miller, Chairman and CEO, AOL
Richard D. Parsons, Chairman and CEO, Time Warner Inc.


If I see this correctly, this Gillespie character goes after slam dunk from mid court.

Also, if I see this correctly, Gillespie will be out of a job if Mr. Bush Jr. loses the election. Thus I will have two words for Gillespie if this is true, "Good Riddance".