Dear Ken,

Please stop soliciting me for contributions to the Republican National Committee. You have already spent the $50 I gave to you two years ago trying to get more money from me. I’m talking about just the solicitations you’ve sent to me. I receive at least one a week and I estimate that each mailing costs you at least fifty cents. I don’t understand why you send so many solicitations, unless you own the company that handles the mailings for you. The RNC would be money ahead if you stopped soliciting me — because I’m not going to make another contribution.

You, the RNC and the Bush Administration have disappointed me. I’ve voted for George W. Bush twice now, but only because there was no acceptable alternative. I think he has done a lousy job.

He has increased the size of the federal government more than any president since LBJ. He increased the budget and reach of the Department of Education when he should have reduced or eliminated its role. He created the prescription drug program for seniors, the largest entitlement program since Medicare itself. He requested and received from Congress the largest increase in the budget of the National Endowment for the Arts since 1984 (Geez, Ken, what’s up with that? Was it hush money for Laura?).

He tripped all over himself trying to look like the personal saviour of each and every Katrina victim, spending billions of tax payer dollars in the process. Ken, where in the constitution does it say that I have to pay for other people’s losses? Don’t try to justify it based on that ‘provide for the general welfare’ thing. Giving tax dollars to individuals is specific welfare, not general welfare. By the way, the government didn’t give money to me when a hurricane damaged my property. Now how did I manage without government help? Oh yeah, I had insurance!

He absolutely refuses to take any effective action to stop the flow of illegal immigrants across our southern border. In both his inauguration ceremonies he swore to uphold the laws of the United States of America. He has broken that oath. No effective effort is being made to round up and deport the illegals, nor to punish the people that hire them. This issue alone is sufficient reason not to vote for the Republican candidate in 2008.

He has botched the operation in Iraq. The only part of that operation that went well was the initial invasion and overthrow of the Saddam Hussein regime. It started to go downhill when the Iraqi people were allowed to loot all the government buildings and when the Iraqi Army’s armament was not secured. Since then either Bush or Rumsfeld, or both, have been too stubborn to admit their mistakes and change their strategy. It is clear to anyone with half a brain that Iraq’s borders and cities should have been locked down immediately after the Saddam regime fell. If Bush really thought that all the factions in Iraq were going to come to him in lockstep asking for help in setting up a democracy, then … well, what can I say?

In 2008 I will vote for a third party or independent candidate. I believe that it is time to bite the bullet and risk letting a Democrat be elected President. If we keep putting it off, then we will never have a viable alternative to the Democrats and Repulicans.

Sincerely,

Carson Sasser

 P.S.  And don’t send me any more pictures of the President and Laura.