Posted by
Susan Bunts on Sunday, January 28, 2007 10:45:32 PM
My
dear Republican Senators…let me caution you…to not even go down the
road of signing a resolution that criticizes the President and his
commitment to send additional troops to Iraq. I
promise you…if you sign any such resolution…not now, not ever will I
give another dime to you, your campaigns or the National Republican
Senate Committee if they do not unreservedly condemn your cowardly
actions. Boys and girls…it time to stand up and back our troops.
Your life is not on the line in Iraq…have the courage, the moral courage, to back our men and women serving in Iraq. Don’t get wobbly weak knees now.
If you disagree with President, then tell your reasons…but offer a better solution. Never, ever take away support for the military that is serving.
Radio
talk show host Hugh Hewitt has come up with a pledge to take for those
who are committed to the men and women serving in our military. Below
is the pledge taken from Hugh’s website. Please also be sure to let
your Republican Senators know your concerns…and the consequences if
they go down a wrong road.
The Pledge
If
the United States Senate passes a resolution, non-binding or otherwise,
that criticizes the commitment of additional troops to Iraq that
General Petraeus has asked for and that the president has pledged, and
if the Senate does so after the testimony of General Petraeus on
January 23 that such a resolution will be an encouragement to the
enemy, I will not contribute to any Republican senator who voted for
the resolution. Further, if any Republican senator who votes for such a
resolution is a candidate for re-election in 2008, I will not
contribute to the National Republican Senatorial Committee unless the
Chairman of that Committee, Senator Ensign, commits in writing that
none of the funds of the NRSC will go to support the re-election of any
senator supporting the non-binding resolution.
Take the pledge, and tell the NRSC:
NRSC
Ronald Reagan Republican Center
425 2nd Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002
202.675.6000
webmaster@gopsenators.com
Then e-mail Senator McConnell and Senator Ensign, and tell them too. Senator McConnell's phone number is (202) 224-2541. Senator Ensign's phone number is (202) 224-6244.
GOP
activists and donors built the GOP senate delegation, as well as the
majority that was punted away. They can disassemble it as well, and GOP
support for a neoappeasement resolution is exactly the way to start
that process.
The Congressional GOP has to realize it cannot have it both ways --you can't be for victory after you were against it.
And GOP senators --alone or as a group-- definitely cannot count on the support of the base if any of them vote for appeasement.