Question for Carly and John
Dear John McCain and Carly Fiorina. Both of your names appear on the letter, so I’m not sure which one of you to address this to. If you’re not the person who did it, kindly forward it to the person who did.
Q: When is it appropriate to send someone a fundraising letter by certified mail?
A (pick one):
- To a reluctant supporter who has vigorously disagreed with you on many issues, possibly even enough to make him “certifiable” in the minds of your more longstanding supporters.
- On a Thursday, so the recipient can get a little sticky from the Post Office while he’s at work on Friday and spend all weekend wondering who is suing him, whether he’s just been laid off, whether his life insurance policy was canceled, or why the hell else anyone would be sending him something by certified mail.
- After your advisors have warned you that you’ll need to keep the U.S. Postal Service fat and happy if you want to secure that all-important Postal Worker vote.
- When your advisors warn you that your “maverick” image is fading, and the only way to get it back is to find a new and exciting way to piss off the base.
- To someone who has donated to your campaign, so he can see how efficiently you are spending the money he’s already given you even while you ask for more.
- NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
August 27th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
I’ll probably vote for McCain under Select Least Damaging rule, but if he doesn’t dump Carly soon I may just stay home and start building the underground shelter and stocking it up.
August 27th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
To check whether members of the American Postal Workers Union - AFL-CIO are chucking McCain campaign literature in the garbage?
August 27th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
P.S. My memory is that when Reagan dissolved the air-controllers’s union he killed two birds with one stone. The mailmen were making strike noises at the same time but they shut up fast. I imagine that they are still afraid of a Republican president.
August 29th, 2008 at 10:44 am
Yeah, I got one of those too, and I thought it was kind of odd. Then, don’t FEC regulations require that McCain spend x amount of money before public financing kicks in? Maybe that’s what he was trying to do.