Dear National Republican Party

Filed under:It's My Life,Jerks,Politics — posted by Anwyn on March 19, 2010 @ 8:35 pm

As an organization, you are sucking the suck right now. You have called my house every night this week. Being perfectly able to read the words “political call” on my caller ID, I didn’t answer until tonight. Thus the calls got later and later until tonight’s came at 8:30 p.m. on a Friday night. So I picked it up just to stop the hounding. I didn’t actually say “Hello?” though. I waited to see if you would say anything. Your computer system is pretty good; it didn’t put a person through to me until I actually said something, to which your witty response was “Uh huh!”

Me: “Who’s calling, please?”

Female drone: “May I please speak to Anwyn?”

Me: “Speaking.”

Female drone: “Mrs. Anwyn, I’m calling on behalf of the Republican Party. Generally speaking, do you consider yourself a Republican or a Democrat?”

Me: “I’m a Republican.”

Her: “Mrs. Anwyn, I’m very glad to hear that. This is a critical time right now for the blah blah blah Obama blah blah health care–”

Me: “I’m sorry–” This would have been followed by “but are you with the national Republican organization or the local one?” had you not HUNG UP the second the words “I’m sorry” were out of my mouth.

That’s right. YOU called ME and then HUNG UP when I wouldn’t go along with your script. You are not interested in me beyond my money. That’s just reality, but at least learn how to disguise it.

Republican Party, quit relying on idiots to represent you. Stop sucking the suck.

6 comments »

  1. They didn’t actually call you Anwyn, did they? :)

    Comment by Xrlq — March 20, 2010 @ 5:05 pm

  2. No, but they did call me Mrs.

    Comment by Anwyn — March 21, 2010 @ 6:43 pm

  3. Heh.

    It may be a case of diminishing returns. Yes, they could hire non-morons instead of morons, but non-morons are more expensive, and if a moron can yield 90% of a non-moron’s return at half the cost, well…

    Comment by Xrlq — March 22, 2010 @ 5:57 pm

  4. Ouch.

    Comment by Bumble — March 24, 2010 @ 3:24 pm

  5. Maybe the just don’t care because they figure in this area they have no farkin’ chance anyway.

    I mean, “Senator Jeff Merkley”.

    Comment by Sigivald — March 25, 2010 @ 3:10 pm

  6. Ouch.

    Comment by Steve — May 27, 2010 @ 7:33 pm

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