I am reposting in response to several requests from yesterday. We fell off the scroll with insufficient traffic for the seriousness of the topic. Please consider Recommending this diary - not for me, but for us.
During the past summer I have been an obnoxious nag about how you can, and must, help Dr. Howard Dean, further the 50 State Strategy, and insure that the Democratic National Committee has the funds to change this country. I'm back for a final, desperate pitch.
I know that the economy is fractured. I know you might be living in fear of losing your job. I know that whatever your 401K might have looked like on September 1st, it now looks like shit. You worry you may never be able to retire. You worry about making ends meet. You worry about everything budgetary, and you are right to do so. But we are facing a moment in our history where just a little bit more investment from you can change that bleak Republican/Bush future that lurks in the incendiary language and appalling stupidity of the Sarah Palins on the national stage.
We have less than 30 days to offset the Big Money Boys, the 527 Slime Factories, and the chilling misrepresentation of Democratic candidates by media outlets that have a deeply personal interest in seeing us go down to defeat on Nov. 4th.
Just 30 days...
I got a form letter today asking for a contribution towards the $5 million dollars the DNC needs to finish this election cycle against the Republicans. It got me to thinking...
We have such enormous power inherent in our numbers. There are almost 190,000 of us. We are People Power, mobilized for change. And, much of the directive force of that power has been, and remains, the extraordinary organization skills and vision of Governor Howard Dean. We helped to put him in the Chair, and he deserves our complete support.
During the summer, you helped to raise $28,000 for the DNC! If we could do that when everything seemed to be in such chaos, when our attention was torn by a thousand things, what can we do if everyone just dropped a dime in the DNC pot?.
If everyone on DKos were to clink on the link and give just $10.08 to the DNC do you realize we could provide almost 2/3rds of the funds the Party needs to insure that the McCain Scum Machine does not have an unchallenged "Bull Horn for Bull Shit"?
You were angry at the naked racism and fear mongering in the past few days. You were pissed off at the disrespect and discourtesy of the McCain's after Tuesday night's debate. And, just as I, you have every reason to worry about the Low Information Voter who will be moved by the lies and threats in the ads popping up in a final effort to destroy the country, if they can not run it.
Now is not the time to quibble with your personal views of the
DNC. Now is not the time to voice your myriad complaints and objections.
Now is the time to join together, and in one final push, raise a HUGE amount of money for our Democratic Party. Yes, you can. Just $10.08 to the DNC. Just this one, final time.
And the best part is, you will never again have to listen to me nag... <g>