not my party anymore

Got a letter form the GOP asking for my support

Dear Mr. Steel

I received your request for money (donations) and your plea for me not to turn my back on the GOP. I was a republican for over 40 years; I campaigned for Goldwater, supported Nixon, Ford and Regan and the first Bush 88. I did not turn my back on you, you threw me out. You changed direction, you ran people (including GW Bush) who changed the direction of the GOP. I am the reason you are now a minority party on the verge of extinction. It is the GOP that has changed not the voters and blaming it on the “Liberal media (I have read the NYT since the 60’s, and watch both FOX and CNN but still supported the GOP) is nonsense and insults my intelligence. The GOP has lost its way and it is not a party with my values any more, The GOP for the last 10 years have spent my tax money like drunken sailors on leave, passed laws that have tried to strip me of my freedom (Internet gambling, Patriot act, etc. etc.) In 2000 the GOP was in control of both houses and the White House. What did you do, you increased the size of government, started wars in the Mideast for no reason (and tuned a surplus into the biggest deficit this country has ever had). So, now you want to be forgiven and want us back (and our money), well it’s not going to happen until you all get the message. It seems all the GOP can bitch about is Gay marriage and abortion, well wake up those issues mean nothing to most of us out here, we don’t care who marries who and as for Roe v Wade, it’s over, it’s been decided and you can’t get the genie back in the bottle. We face great problems, an ailing economy, disappearing manufacturing base, Islamic terror, soaring taxes and a future that looks like hell for our kids (interest rates will soar with all the government is borrowing and spending). So, what are your answers to these problems? You don’t have any, that’s the problem; all you talk about is family values (yours not mine), gay marriage and abortion. I hate to get personal but putting a black face at the head of the party, without any new ideas, was tried in the 60’s and 70’s (read “the spook that sat next to the door”) by corporate America (I was there) and it did not change anything until they change their structure and leadership, so Mr. Steel if you want folks like me to rejoin the party you had best show me some new ideas and some restraint when it comes to spending. The religious right at the present time is running the party and since my faith is my business and no one else’s and since I also believe in the separation of state and church I cannot in good conscience support the GOP anymore. The ball is in your hands, if you want my support and money, you have to earn it. So, it’s time to stop trying to frighten me and start showing me that you have my interests in mind and that you will change, and go back to what you were before the religious right took over.
Sincerely
Fred Budin
PS just received a questionnaire fro the Heritage Foundation- Same as you, try to frighten me into donating to the GOP.