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Why didn't I think of this?
I know a guy who is a real genuine southern Christian conservative. A true believer, who hated the Bush Administration for abandoning just about every conservative principle out there while retaining the label in the hope of getting folks to vote for them instead of "libbruls (i.e. Democrats)." If they last election was any indication, the portion of the American electorate who still falls for that line has seriously diminished into a minority.
But my friend (we are still friends despite all this--hard to explain, you'd have to be there) has made himself millions while acting as the grandfather (he will be 76 this year) of the conservative fundraising movement. He and I disagree on most everything politically (except for Bush 2 being a disaster), but he hasn't lost his ability to tap into the Zeitgeist. He just posted on his (widely read) website that the DHS report (commissioned by the Bush administration) on potentially violent rightist extremists was insulting to just about, well, everyone that might read his website. The sister report on leftists was apparently fine with him--he only objected to the report about extremists from the right, never mind that McVeigh and Osama Bin Laden were conservative extremists.
He then offered, for a mere $9.95, to send a fax the DHS protesting their designating people as potential terrorists. Well, not the ones on the left, 'cause all of them ARE potential terrorists (obviously! aren't they?) but the ones on the right? How dare they?
Now I don't know how many nut cases are really left out there, but SOMEbody has to keep watching Fox "News," and at least some of those take it seriously. So I figure there are still a few dozen million of them out there. Now, this guy knows perfectly well that "they" are most certainly not "coming to take you away, ha ha." However, if there are one or two million out there who think otherwise, and are willing to send him $9.95 to send a fax, hey, there's a recession on! That would be the quickest $10 million I ever heard of being earned, and since it's all practically free money, you can bet your sweet bippy that he'll be scrupulously honest and pay every penny of the taxes he owes on his winnings, so as not to endanger what's left. $6 million+ free and clear is still not bad for a few weeks' worth of repetitious faxing.
MAN, do I wish I had thought of that! There's this house on the Kona side of the Big Island I'd love to grab.....
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