so earlier this year, the republican national committee put me on their mailing list for some reason. they sent me one of those fundraising letters they did that was a fake census form. receiving that made me think a lot of things but mostly made me wonder about the rnc s much touted microtargeting program for their mailing lists. turns out their wildly bad aim for their mailing list targets me, really, you guys? turns out to be the least of their problems. the rnc facebook correspondent, kent jones. not just the c-streeters who had a bad week. michael steele and the republican national committee had their worst week ever. they should cut their losses and take tomorrow off. take a look. it started at voyeur, the super classy l.a. bondage bar where we learned that the rnc dropped $2,000 for a young eagles party. welcome back, fiscal
off of these attacks. that s just stirring the pot. i think it s a tstridency the right and to the left, we need to hold the decibel level. we re seeing this win-at-any-cost culture. you have parents yelling at coaches. we can go through a series of other things where this winning at any cost rather than how we operate with each other. i think it s having a serious effect and it s having a serious effect on our children and has serious effect when people around the world look at us. we really look like we re cheapening and denigrating ourselves. senator alexander, when you look at the fundraising letters, when you look at some of the things that have gone on, have republicans we see senator mikulski say, yeah, over the top fundraising by democrats, what is the republican culpability in
i thought it was a reminder of all of us that before we re democrats or republicans, we re americans and we can compete vigorously. at the end of the day, we all love this country, we re all trustees of this country and we all work together. in your view, were these democratic fundraising letters okay? off of the nastiness and the threats and all that. were they okay? they were within the parameters of acceptable fundraising. i would rather there were not events around which to send out missives like that. at the end of the week, governor kaine, the chairman of the democratic party reached out to the chairman of the republican party saying let s issue a joint statement urging a change in tone. and unfortunately, mr. steele, the republican chairman felt he couldn t join in that. does the president have a role in that? can the president bring that down? i asked because he went and said to the democrats, some things
president to be fundraising ayou have off of these attacks? i think it is a strident move whether it is from the right or left. we are seeing this all through our country with what s happening with this kind of win at any cost culture where you ve got parents yelling at coaches, even on we could go through a whole series of other things where this winning at any cost rather than how we operate with each other i think is having a serious effect. it is having a serious effect on our children and serious effect when people around the world look at us. we really look like we are cheapening and denigrating ourselves. when you look at the fundraising letters, when you look at some of the things that have gone on, we see senator
us. i want to show you a couple of things to go to congressman cantor s point that came out of fundraising letters last week. the first one from the chairman of the democratic national committee, tim kaine, who wrote, democratic offices have been van dalized. he closes by saying, please chip in $5 or more. then, we get this from mitchell stewart. starts by saying, members have had death threats, democratic offices have been van dalized. it ends, please donate $25 or more. interpret those fundraising pleas to me as anything other than milking the situation as the republicans have charged. i think that great scene from casablanca where the police captain says, i m shocked to find there is gambling going on here when they are handing him his gambling money. i think the republican party has been very active in exploiting sentiment around this for