I took the excellent advice of BetaCarbon (
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/5/234617/8192) and wrote my GOP senators to warn them of the coming downfall of their party from corruption. This is a great way to ask Republicans to do things that normal people would do as a matter of course -- you know, oppose torture, support truth and science, and so forth.
It so happens that I live in Maine and my senators are sane, but the anti-Gonzales letter I wrote could be used for any of the rightwings as long as they're not named Frist, Hastert, or Delay.
See what you think:
Dear Republican Senator:
I respect your career as a principled politician and implore you to vote against the confirmation of Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General. You know the issues (authorizing torture, being incompetent, refusing to accept responsibility) so I will not rehash them.
Your party's leadership is corrupt. The evidence (Ohio election irregularities, the "Delay Rule," illegal payoffs to a pro-Bush pundit, suppressing budget numbers before the drug-benefit vote, outing Valerie Plame, politicizing intelligence to force a war in Iraq...) is so long and egregious that I cannot possibly enumerate it. Nor should I have to, because I am certain you already know.
The public is beginning to notice. A vote for Gonzales is a vote for even deeper corruption at the top of your party. If you side with them over your own principles, you will tar yourself with that corruption.
Please do right by the people of -------- and vote against the confirmation of Alberto Gonzales.
Thank you.
If you feel moved to write your own, go to http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/ for addresses.
Even though it feels pointless to tell them this stuff.