PLEASE NOTE THAT I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH ANY BILLBOARDS, MIKE MEEHAN, OR THE SITE THEREPUBLICANSONG.COM.
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Yessiree, more letters to me. Funny, the folks who like Mike Meehan's song don't seem to be sending me as much hate mail recently. Guess they got tired of being mocked, heh!
From: IMHHCSad to say, for some folks that's a concept that just blows their mind. They're like cultists who've been told that everybody outside their cult is evil and wants to do bad things to them. They only listen to cult-approved news sources that tell them what their cult leaders want them to know, and they only believe cult-approved things that these news sources tell them to believe, and they think everybody who is not part of their cult is evil. Sad to say, it's pretty darn hard to deal with cult members. Like those poor women who went back to that polygamist cult in Texas despite being regularly raped and beaten, even though there was kind-hearted people who were offering them jobs and homes and stuff, they just seem immune to logic and reason and rational thought. They believe what their leaders tell them to believe, which is that everybody who isn't a member of their cult is evil and sinful and going to Hell, and that's that.
I saw Mike 'something' on the news this morning about his billboards. He states "Please don't vote democrat." So Mike feels that no matter what a republican says, it is golden and you shouldn't think for yourselves. Wake up Mike, you are a follower and a moron. Too bad there are so many like you. The way "Mike" thinks has made us hated across the globe. It should be about voting for the BEST PERSON to run the country, not about party lines.
From: WilliamWell, it's not the blaming folks part that makes me want to mock him. It's where he basically says that everybody who disagrees with him is evil and wants to steal from him and isn't a real American and stuff. That's just wrong. Real Americans can disagree and still respect each other, sort of like Senator Barry Goldwater and Senator John F. Kennedy were close personal friends despite disagreeing with each other about pretty much everything. Folks who say that only people who think the same as them are real Americans and everybody else is evil, well. I don't know what to say about that. It's kind of sad, really, going around thinking everybody is out to get you and stuff. Doesn't seem very brave to me, I dunno.
hey just wanted to let you know that i emailed Mike Meehan to congratulate him on making his fellow countrymen and women ashamed to call themselves Americans. But i also told him that i wouldn't allow his total lack of patriotism to anger me, because i know that pointing your finger and blaming someone else doesnt make you american, it just makes you a coward. and i cant help but feel sorry for someone so weak. ps. the whole not getting angry thing isnt really working, but at least i'm trying. thanks for your site. -william
From: GlennWhy thank you, Glenn. Now watch it, folks. More messages like this, I might get a swelled head or somethin', y'know?
I was watching the news and saw the story about the bilboard in Fl. Curious to see what manner of nuts were behind it I googled republicansong.com, which is what I'm sure that 60% of the people who see their sign will remember. What a pleasant, and oh so ironic surprise! Someone spent lots of good dollars for that sign just to have it lead a great number of folks to you. I was thinking that if I had some millions lying around that I didn't need, I would buy or lease the land right after their billboard and erect another one that says: "Republicans aren't through screwing you yet!". If I owned this site I would put that here.Either way, kudos to you for putting your country before any party. With any luck, there are still enough folks out there like you to pull us out of all this crap.
From: ChrisAnd here was his message to me.
To: Mr. Meehan (note -- I was cc'ed on this)Mr. Meehan: You're a joke. Posing as a partisan hack so you can sell a song. Just what I'd expect from a Republican looking to line his pockets. And you stole the title, no less. Even more Rovian/NeoCon/Republcan of you!
While you're certainly entitled to your opinion, you're also entitled to whatever reaction you get from the publicity you sought. Your "President" has run this country into the ground over the last 7 years and started by being a miserable failure on the security front. He had warnings about the kind of psychos that attacked us on 9/11 and ignored them, either purposely or (more likely) out of sheer indifference or incompetence.
From: ChrisWell, GWB did look good on paper in 1999. Moderate Republican. Talked about a foreign policy of humility, not humiliation, talked about small government, all that. Lots of access to experienced people from his Daddy's administration who had done a good job while his Daddy was President (I still think GHWB was a much better President than most folks credit him as being -- most of the decisions that led to the Clinton economic boom originated in GHWB's administration, and I voted for him in 1992). I voted for Gore because I'd seen Al in action against Bill Clinton on the issue of putting spy chips in every computerized device (the "Clipper Chip" spy chip, a terrible idea that took years for those of us in the computer industry to defeat) and felt more comfortable with Al on technology issues which is what pays my bills, but I really did think that either man would make a good President and when Gore partisans were up in arms about the Florida decision that installed Bush, I laughed at their assertions that Bush would be a disaster and told'em that it had been Gore's race to lose and Gore just plain flubbed it and we had a perfectly good President in Bush who'd pretty much continue steering the country in a peaceful prosperous way and they should quit being alarmists. Boy, the joke sure was on me, wasn't it?
Keep up the good work. I admire your ability to own up to previous mistakes, unlike the unmitigated failure of a President we have now.
From: LeahWell, Leah, my URL is "www.republicansong.com", and his URL is "www.THErepublicansong.com". Note the extra "the" in his URL. There's no law against that. And yeah, I know the feeling about how sometimes it is sad to be right. I was like that about going to war in Iraq. I wanted Osama bin Laden found, hung until dead on the site of the WTC, then his carcass left there to rot for the crows to eat until finally the remnants were hacked to pieces and used for pig feed. I wanted (and still want) that SOB *dead*. I couldn't see Iraq being anything but a distraction from that and noted that all the Army manuals said that it would take 500,000 troops to properly stabilize the place and we didn't have 500,000 troops in the whole U.S. Army so the place would be a mess and we'd be there for ages. Sadly, I was right. bin Laden might as well be bin Forgotten, and we're still stuck in Iraq. I was right, but that sure the heck don't make me feel good.
Hi Eric,
I watched MSNBC and saw the billboard abomination ,typed in the addy and...Viola! How can he get away with using your website address?Your emails and responses are most entertaining. I can't believe I'm having such a great time when I sure didn't expect it.
I was one of the" Loonies" you referenced. It's sad to be right when it would have been much better for the country to be wrong. I wish I was... After the frustation of 2000, 2004 was like a kick in the face. After all the lies and criminality, how-the-hell did this bunch get in again!?! I hope we can crawl out of this hole, but it's going to take years.
Keep smilin' ,Eric. Better days are comin' (I hope)...
From: RobertHuckabee is a man I can respect, if maybe not agree with all the time. He's a real Christian, not one of these fakes who go around preaching hate and all. I don't think he'd make a good President, but I think he's a good man. Edwards... what can I say? I voted for Edwards for the Senate when I lived in North Carolina, and I think he's a good man too. Maybe too good. I still remember when he went up against Darth Cheney in that Vice Presidential debate back in '2004. Ole' Darth Cheney lied through his teeth, and Edwards just seemed completely flustered and flabbergasted that a supposed serious statesman could just get up and lie like that. I guess in the end Edwards was just too darned naive and idealistic to get the nomination.
I gotta admit, you made my day, Eric. I just typed in your address like everyone else, planning on letting know how disgraceful that sign was. I mean, really, making political points off of thousands of deaths IS just what I expect of them, though. I am not a Dem, though, and I agree with the republican ideals, but finding a republican who acts on his ideals instead of spouting the party line is next to impossible. And the repubs I work with wouldn't admit Bush made a mistake if he invaded the wrong country after 9/11 (oh, wait...) but my favorites were Huckabee and Edwards, but of course they didn't stand a chance. BTW, I am interested in hearing the songs you were talking about, the "real" ones, do you have them online anywhere? I love protest and folk music, and I've lived in trailer parks, lost loves, couldn't get a break, and finally made it out at a horrific cost(well, terrible cost, at least) so I think I could identify. Good luck to you, and I'm glad you are doing well enough to turn down money!
As for my other songs, I really need to re-record most of them, most of them date back to the 1990's when my computer gear was a Windows 95 system with a Radio Shack computer mike and a whole 4 gigabytes of hard drive space (and I thought that was a lot, yessiree!). But you can see what I had in 2003. Lousy recordings, and I'd do everything different there now that I have good professional gear. So it goes.
From: JoeI swear, you folks are gonna give me a swollen head indeed with that kind of talk!
Hi Eric, Heard about the idiot Republican billboard and goggled the address to dog that fool a bit, but lo and behold your fine site came up. And it is fine indeed. You strike me as a low-key, unflappable and thinking man. And one that's not afraid to admit he was wrong in '2000. I only wish more of our fellow Americans were so adjusted and rational.
From: Willie:Well, for some reason I haven't gotten as much hate mail as I expected. Maybe they don't like being mocked. Hmm. Thanks for your feedback.
Hi Eric, Your Hx with the GOP sounds identical to mine. I left the party starting with the days of RR. I see you are getting hate mail from some of the microcephalic ignorant scum who still support this black-out drunk Bush, who was too lazy minded and betz cell anemic to give any attention to the Aug. 6th CIA warning. So those of us with intelligent reasoning facilities are supposed to believe that the cabal that let 9/11 happen are the most capable protectors of the country. What a laugh!! Ignore the profane flatus of the scum. Glad you set the story of the billboard straight. Thanks! Viet Vet / Ret Col. USA
And just as I was thinking that things had calmed down, here comes this one:
From: Neil C. ReinhardtI'll just ask you a question asked by some commie liberal back in 1980: Are you better off now than you were eight years ago? (Said commie liberal actually said "four years" and his name was Ronald Reagan, but you get the point).
Damn near any Republican is BETTER than that IDIOT Obama! Or as I call him ODUMA!
There's a word to describe someone who continues to support folks that just ain't done a good job, and that word ain't "smart". I don't hold any delusions about Obama, but he's got one thing going for him -- he isn't one of those folks who've resulted in us being worse off today than we were eight years ago. And if, four years from now, Obama hasn't done a good job... why, I'll vote for whoever is running against him, of course. That's democracy. You vote the guys who haven't done a good job out, vote someone else in... repeat until you get some folks who do a good job into office. It ain't rocket science. I dunno why some folks just don't seem to get it, that re-electing folks into office who've done a bad job just gets you more of the same. So it goes.
And now I receive my first death threat (wow, took three days, I was expecting one *much* sooner!):