Back in my day, if you wanted to pay strangers to do things you'd all be embarrassed for your neighbors to discover you engaged in, you picked up a fine paper like, say, the Nashville Scene and flipped to the back and looked through the ads. Much to the financial chagrin of said papers, these days the kids go on Craigslist.
What kinds of weirdo stuff are folks on Craigslist looking for?
The Tennessee Democratic Party is currently looking for enthusiastic, politically interested individuals for our grassroots field program.
Oooh, yep, that's some weirdo stuff.
You'll build rapport with targeted voters, sharpen your communication skills, and inspire Democrats in Tennessee.
I have to tell you, at this point, I'd almost be willing to shell out $325 for someone to come tell me what should inspire a Democrat in Tennessee. Is it our exciting ability to run a candidate for governor who looked perpetually surprised and dismayed to discover he was running for governor? Whose belief that gay people shouldn't be able to adopt ended up being more liberal than Haslam's "
my forcing cities to allow discrimination against gay people doesn't mean I discriminate against gay people; it's my stance on gay marriage that means I discriminate against gay people" position just by dumb luck? Or is it the bold way that
we stand for people and kids? If the TNDP has a message more exciting than "We like people and kids and we're not as bad as the Republicans, even if that's not immediately apparent," I would love to hear it.
Perhaps I should post my own "Blogger Seeking Party" ad on Craigslist and see what responses I get?
