I am sure that like myself the folks who read this blog get political mail. We are either receiving it or we are the ones sending it. I keep all of the political mail that candidates send me. In fact I have a file tucked in the back of a filing cabinet labeled “Mail”. Inside of that file I have sub-folders titled, “Negative”, “Positive” etc..(you get the idea). I also have one special sub-folder titled “Dad”.
My dad gets political mail. A lot of it. Never from Democrats. Only from Republicans. It could be his zip code (pretty much GOP territory). But the thing is that he shouldn’t get one piece of mail from ANY candidate or political party. He shouldn’t be on anyone’s target list. You see, the thing is, my dad has never voted. He can’t vote. He isn’t an American. He immigrated here in 1960’s. Don’t get me wrong. He has his permanent visa. He earned it by several tours in Vietnam serving with the American military. He considered it a fair trade. Go fight for this country and they will let me stay. So that is what he did and so far it has worked out well. He loves his adopted country as much or if not more than most Americans.
Enough about my dad. What I find odd is that for past couple of election cycles Republicans have been railing against immigrants but yet they are asking my dad to vote. One of the mail pieces was an absentee ballot request. It was already filled out with my dad’s info. The cover had a picture with Palin in the foreground and an odd looking McCain in the background. All he had to do was sign it and send it in and then *poof* here comes a ballot. My dad laughs it off as he hands me a stack of mail when I see him around election time, “No wonder these f*ckers can’t run the country”, is a usual comment from him when handing them over.
He laughs it off, I get mad about it. Mad b/c it is either a candidate or a party trying to get illegal votes or it is a mail firm that is totally sucky. The GOP candidates need to go over their files. With the big do to about making sure immigrants don’t vote how about you make sure that YOU are not the ones asking them to vote.
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