Republicans have been using a new technology to get out the vote:

“An automated voice at the other end of the telephone line asks whether you believe that judges who ‚Äúpush homosexual marriage and create new rights like abortion and sodomy‚Äù should be controlled. If your reply is ‚Äúyes,‚Äù the voice lets you know that the Democratic candidate in the Senate race in Montana, Jon Tester, is not your man.

In Maryland, a similar question-and-answer sequence suggests that only the Republican Senate candidate would keep the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance. In Tennessee, another paints the Democrat as wanting to give foreign terrorists “the same legal rights and privileges” as Americans.

Using a telemarketing tactic that is best known for steering consumers to buy products, the organizers of the political telephone calls say they have reached hundreds of thousands of homes in five states over the last several weeks in a push to win votes for Republicans. Democrats say the calls present a distorted picture.

The Ohio-based conservatives behind the new campaign, who include current and former Procter & Gamble managers, say the automated system can reach vast numbers of people at a fraction of the cost of traditional volunteer phone banks and is the most ambitious political use of the telemarketing technology ever undertaken.”

Of course the left is whining away with their “Rovian Conspiracy” rantings and generally crying foul. But the fact is that they are just pissed because they didn’t think of it first.

Most likely because they’re too busy signing up dead people and illegal aliens and convicted felons.

UPDATE: The whiners at the DNCC send a “cease and desist letter” to the NRCC, but get this response:

“Don McGahn, Council for the Republicans responded in this letter: “Thank you for your press release. Per your request, this is to let you know that there is no need for the NRCC to, in your words, bring its actitivities into compliance with Federal law, because NRCC acitivities are already in compliance with Federal Law.

In Fact, with respect to telephone disclaimers, we have simply copied what you own national committee does. I have a recording of a pre-recorded phone message from DNC counsel Joe Sandler which contains the same sorts of disclaimers (including placement) as NRCC calls. Maybe you ought to send a letter to the DNC as well?”

Slam!