I received four pieces of mail today. Two from the RNC, two from K/E 04.
I should state up front that I live in the south Dayton suburbs in Ohio. I live in a Republican area, so that's why I get mail from the RNC. But since I am a registered Democrat, I get mail from the DNC also.
Big difference in the mailings.
The two mailings from the RNC are black. They have grayish photos of John Kerry. THERE IS NO PICTURE OF GEORGE BUSH AT ALL!!!! No picture of Bush on either mailing! George Bush's name does not appear anywhere on the mailings
But guess what IS on them? Pictures of the World Trade Centers. Lots of them. One mailing has 9 newpaper covers showing the towers burning. THe other has a headline screaming, "In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed..." Then describes Kerry's votes to cut the intelligence budget.
In Red letters: Slash our intelligence, Slash our defense.
Both mailings from the RNC rely heavily on images of the WTC.
But the Kerry mailings are in color. Bush is never mentioned in EITHER mailing.
One of the two Democratic mailings lists the names of our senatorial candidate (Eric Fingerhut) and our Supreme Court candidates. It contains q/a about voting, such as, "Can I still vote if I am standing in line at 7:30 when the polls close?" Also listed is the phone number of the county Democratic party.
The other mailing from the Ohio Democratic Party is a beautiful--I intend to keep it for years as a souvenir of Kerry's landslide victory--of Kerry, hand on heart, before the American flag. On the back is a photo of K/E with their wives. Both sides describe K/E's travels through Ohio and the issues that matter.
It's pretty clear that one party is appealing to the nation's hopes; the other side is appealing to their fears. One side is appealing to their best impulses; the other side is appealing to their worst.
I am proud of the campaign John Kerry and John Edwards have run. The RNC mailing is garbage, and belongs there. That's where it will go. The other mailing, I will keep as an inspiration.