Republican spam

I did not subscribe to Rick Santorum's campaign newsletter from Townhall.com. But they keep sending it to my work e-mail address anyway.

This issue: The Liberals Have Landed ... Can We Stop Them? Apparently the Democrat party has been taken over by, of all people... liberals! And little Ricky is just a poor persecuted minority battling valiantly to hold the barbarians at bay:

Believe me, it's not easy. Pennsylvania is a tough state where Democrats outnumber Republicans by more than half a million voters. This year, in my state, the liberals have set up camp and devoted an unprecedented amount of time and money to defeating me.

Those evil liberals. I just love the part at the bottom of each mail that says:

* This newsletter is never sent unsolicited. It was sent to you because you signed up to receive this newsletter on a Salem Web Network site.

I so did not sign up for it. It reminds me of the time I received a personally "signed" photograph of President Bush thanking me for my dedication as a grassroots Republican leader.

However, I don't think I'll unsubscribe just yet. Like another wingnut newsletter I receive regularly, it's providing me with hours of joyful reading and entertainment.

Just read the comment string on this tired old piece on the evils of marriage equality. Or how Mike Wallace and CBS television are now supposedly the official mouthpieces for the Islamic Republic of Iran. It's like reading the funny pages in the paper, only funnier. At least it would be funnier if humor was the actual intent rather than the unintended effect of hysterical paranoia.