The Victory Card

While I’m still absorb­ing tonight’s Kerry vic­to­ries in Vir­ginia and Ten­nessee, I would like to share with my read­ers one of the more amus­ing pieces of direct mail that I’ve seen – The Vic­tory Card Mas­ter­Card from the Mass­a­chu­setts Demo­c­ra­tic Party. Now, I love my party, and I’ve cer­tainly given a good chunk of my time, money and (lim­ited) tal­ents over the years… but this piece of mar­ket­ing mate­r­ial is really silly.

I know I’m cyn­i­cal and all, but this multi-​culti pic­ture of bi-​racial babies being hugged by an Amer­i­can flag, is just plain funny. The under­ly­ing mes­sage is right and com­mend­able, but do we need to use babies? …to sell a credit card?

Ahh, but each pur­chase puts a per­cent­age into the Com­mon­wealth Dems’ coffers… Some­how, I think I’d rather write another check.