Dear Friend:

Are you as sick and tired as I am of liberal politicians who: Force children to be bused; appoint judges who turn murderers and rapists loose on the public; force your children to study from school books that are anti-God, anti-American, and filled with the most vulgar curse words; give your tax money to communists, anarchists and other radical organizations; do nothing about sex, adultery and homosexuality and foul language on television?

Are you tired of feeling no power to change things? If so, why don't you join the Conservative Caucus?

Source: McIntyre, Sen. Thomas J. The Fear Brokers. p. 43 (1979) (context: "Witness the contents of the first mailing to solicit memberships and money for Meldrim Thomson's Conservative Caucus. Using words like bullets, this letter was fired off in November 1974...")

The letter was composed and mailed by Richard Viguerie's direct mail firm. From November 1974 through June 1975, "appeals such as this brought in $524,387 from 36,840 people, according to Caucus Director Howard Phillips," according to McIntyre (citing Ladd, Everett Carl Jr. The Democrats Have Their Own Two Party System. Fortune. October, 1977. pp. 212-226.