So there I am watching TV and the phone rings.  I make the mistake of answering without looking at the Caller ID.  A woman is on the phone calling from Newt Gingrichs' organization asking me if I will participate in a "poll".

Sigh.

Ok.

So they plug in good ole Newt to give me a sales pitch about defeating Obama and saving the world.  Then I get plugged back to another woman and she asks me the poll question:  Does Obama deserve a second term?

"No", I say.

'Great ', replies she, and then launches into the real reason for the call - a sales pitch for donations to the cause.

I don't know who pioneered this scam, where the calling org deceives you into thinking you are being polled, when in reality that is just a hook into hitting you up for money, but whomever did dream it up:  you fail.  Anybody who calls me up and tries to mislead me into giving a pseudo campaign contribution is going to get one answer, and one answer only: NO - even if I do support the mission.  I don't like being gamed.  Not one bit. 

So Newt...go shove it where the sun don't shine.  If you don't have the balls to ask directly, you don't get a plug nickel from me.

I then returned to the mindless, but entertaining Swiss Family Robinson