Mailing in a fundraising mailout

With sincerest thanks to Penlan I am able to provide you with the most recent Conservative fundraising letter.

Take your time and read it all the way through.

See you at the end of the letter.

Sept. 9, 2009

Dear Mr. Xxxxx,

Michael Ignatieff is back.

After 34 long years abroad, he's back and tired of waiting for power.

We must take his threat to force an unwanted election seriously and be prepared to fight a national election campaign next month. That's why I'm writing to you today: to ask you to make a contribution of $200 or $100 right now by following this link.

Michael Ignatieff is not a patient man.

He has been party leader for only half a year, an MP for a little longer. That's a long, long time for someone with a strong sense of entitlement to wait for what he feels he is owed:

• Ignatieff wants the power he feels he's entitled to, and has signed his name to the Coalition deal with the Bloc and NDP to get it.
• Ignatieff wants Canadians to pay for an unnecessary and wasteful election.
• Ignatieff wants to implement a higher tax-and-spend regime on Canadians.

The problem is that Ignatieff wants all of this just when our economy is starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. He wants to force a $300 million election on taxpayers even as our economic action plan is starting to beat off a global recession and only 12 months after the last federal election.

Canada cannot afford a Prime Minister who is just visiting.

To you and I, Ignatieff's threats to force an election are absurd and irresponsible.

However, we have to believe he'll do it, and we must be prepared to make our case to Canadians should an unwanted election be called. The Conservative Party of Canada needs your help because our economic future is at stake.

Please, help us get our national campaign ready to roll out by making a contribution of $200 or $100 right now by following this link.

Sincerely,

Irving Gerstein, C.M., O.Ont.
Chair, Conservative Fund Canada

All the usual patterns are present. The bi-weekly appeal on the Wednesday/Thursday before payday. The request for a higher level donation is repeated as well. The questions about the Conservative burn rate rise again. More on that later.

As we can see from Canpolitico's post on the previous letter, other things are repeated as well. Such as this sentence:

That's why I'm writing you today, to ask you to make a contribution of $200 or $100 right now

with the words

by following this link

added to try and spice up the uninspired rehashing of the previous letter. Oh yeah. The coalition drivel (I spelt it right in this post) is included as if my rote. Reading this I got the feeling that Mr. Gerstein's heart wasn't in.

A sign that he was just "mailing it in" is that a good job of proof reading would have caught a blooper like the second last sentence:

The Conservative Party of Canada needs your help because our economic future is at stake.

Did he mean to say that Canada's economic future is at stake? Perhaps but that is not what he wrote. I prefer to go with the interpretation that he has subliminally exposed a concern about the trend of their expenditures versus their income.

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