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By Shawn Macomber on 4.2.08 @ 12:08AM

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Overall, do you feel that there are too many liberal or too many conservative justices serving in our federal courts?

Is whether conservative voters secretly preferred the Republican Party to push for liberal justices really the question that's keeping the NRCC brain trust up at night? Republicans are preparing to enter a brutal, against all odds presidential election and the NRCC leadership is trying to figure out whether or not the silent majority inside its own party is actually liberal activists.

Do you believe Republicans need to work harder to limit spending and do more to totally eliminate wasteful and overlapping federal government programs?

I wonder if there is some nail biting going on in the NRCC delegate-at-large opinion counting department these days: Sir, the survey backfired! They all answered Yes! How are we possibly going to be MORE wasteful!?

Oh, and for the record, no, I don't want to surrender to the terrorists.

THE MOST INSULTING ASPECT of these surveys, however, has nothing to do with politics. Rather, it's how both parties are willing to throw out these ridiculous questions they already know the answers to as if they were scientists throwing red meat in front of Pavlov's party members, trying to get us all hot and bothered enough to send them a bunch of the hard-earned money they'll just seize from us once they're elected anyway.

At the end of the DNC survey I was given the opportunity to offer the Democratic nominee one piece of advice. I toyed with a playful call for Surrender!, but worried how Obama might apply that advice, or Send your surveys to fewer right-wing crackpots. Ultimately, though, I decided to just write -- This is insulting. Just ask for the money.

And what was my answer to the second to last question on the NRCC survey requesting "one or two sentences" on the "Republican Party's greatest weaknesses"?

Ha Ha Ha

Seriously, though, guys. Thanks for checking in!

American Spectator Contributing Editor Shawn Macomber is writing a book on the Global Class War.

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