Dear xxx,
Think GOP obstruction is bad now? Just imagine what Washington would look like if a bunch of new senators ? inspired by Sarah Palin and the tea party crowd ? took over.
If you think this movement is more circus sideshow than actual threat, you'd be mistaken. Republican candidates are falling all over each other to get Palin's endorsement, and the tea party movement is responding. Money is pouring in.
Either we match the passion and activism of these new forces in the Republican Party, or they'll be choosing who's sitting in the Senate, steering our country's course. If we don't match them
dollar-for-dollar, we will lose Senate seats in 2010. And the loss of even one or two would flip crucial votes in their favor and doom President Obama's agenda.
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In case you doubt the seriousness of this situation, here are a couple of examples:
Republican Senate candidates, including Mark Kirk of Illinois, are actively seeking Sarah Palin's endorsement and they are disavowing their own past positions, contorting themselves to appeal to the new Sarah Palin Republicans (emphasis mine). They know that if they receive her blessing, the money will follow.
The leading GOP Senate candidate in Connecticut, Rob Simmons, has been running around the state with a tea bag hanging from his rearview mirror, and he carries a copy of the United States Constitution with a tea bag attached. Such tactics might seem silly. But they're working.
These are not fringe candidates ? but they are increasingly pandering to the fringe to curry support. If they win, they will be doing the bidding of Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and their legions of fans. The best chance we've had in generations to make positive change
will have ended.
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I know better than most what these Republicans are capable of ? and the high cost of not taking immediate action. It's not too late to stop them from derailing the President's agenda. But we need your help ? and today is not a moment too soon.
Sincerely,
Sen. John Kerry
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My Response:
The United States, as we knew it, is not the same today. Americans had better work very hard to make changes we can believe in.
Our money and energy MUST support new voices and faces on the Hill and in the White House.
Because Sarah did such an outstanding job here in Alaska, who better to lead all Americans to make the needed changes?
My money, energy and bets are on massive changes for 2010 and 2012. Don't count out us, the people of the US, in your equation of the solutions needed. We may not be elite, but we are the enlightened.
