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Extremism Is a Vice

6.30.04 @ 12:01AM

ROPE THE DOPES
Re: David Hogberg's Bush Spotlights Extremists:

Mr. Hogberg's article indicates why conservatives should take heart about the current campaign. While the media and the extremists have been savaging Bush since the day he took office, Bush and Kerry today are merely tied in many polls, even after 6 months of relentlessly negative press about the President. This shows how weak Kerry really is.

The Bushies know that their campaign needs to publicize a cohesive anti-Kerry message for only one month before the election, when most uncommitted voters are making a decision. It will be a surgical and effective counterstrike because there is so very much ammunition, particularly in Kerry's lifelong ties to extremism in every form, starting with his attacks on the American military after his 4 months of service in Vietnam.

Bush will win on the quiet choices made by millions of swing voters in the final stage of the campaign.
-- Steve Nikitas
Pittsfield, Massachusetts

David Hogberg's article "Bush Spotlights Extremists" captures the leftwards tilt of the Kerry Campaign. However, David seems to feel that the Bush campaign has not aggressively attacked enough on Kerry's liberal bent. I feel the Bush team is using their playbook as they always have, "By giving a man enough rope to hang himself."

Remember the debates with Al Gore. Bush was supposed to be a moron, could not speak, didn't have a chance. The debates were declared a formality. The bar was lowered to such a point that George Bush looked like a genius and Al Gore never recovered.

Now all George has to do is prove he is not Hitler, and show Kerry is so deep in bed with the far left. The moderate 8% will flock to Bush and it will be over. If he had attacked too early, Kerry would never have lurched so far left.

Again the Bush team has framed the issue, much to the liberals' dismay.
-- Tom Royce
Peachtree City, Georgia

I suspect the majority of those who will vote remember little of what was said and done five to ten months before election day. The battle is won in the last two months and Bush is well positioned for the final run. Patience will payoff, the problems of today will mostly be forgotten and the opposition will be vanquished. The American voter knows their positions and other than the junkies they are now growing weary of all the talk. Let's hope both parties will learn that the attention span of the average voter can't handle a ten-month campaign.
-- Richard Ledford

Bush is a Nazi? I saw a bumper sticker the other day, "Bush: Bringing Fascism to the 21st Century."
-- Donald A. Holloway
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

COURTING DISASTER
Re: George Neumayr's War by Judicial Review:

I agree with George.

In addition, let's put Richard Perle, David Frum, Doug Feith, David Wurmser, Scooter Libby, Judith Miller, Laurie Mylroie and the rest of the Chalabi Lobby in detention centers as enemy combatants until the treason investigation involving Ahmed Chalabi is concluded.
-- Charles Bowen

The sense of total frustration evident in George Neumayr's "War by Judicial Review" is palpable. Like many a concerned American, Neumayr senses and writes what a (conservative) "Court watcher" already knows: that a majority of The Supremes are leading this nation down a primrose path, aided and abetted by the likes of the radicals of the ACLU. In fact, one could argue that the ACLU already sits in on Court deliberations and participates in their decision-making. For the non-historically challenged, it will be recalled that the critics of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's nomination to the high court pointed precisely to her direct ties to that extremist organization. And she has not disappointed her former associates. From her untrammeled support of the world's most radical abortion license, strident objection to the death penalty, repudiation of all-male military institutions and, by her "winks and nods" embrace of the evisceration of the Constitution's 14th Amendment by her unlimited apologetics for affirmative action, she has, conveniently and effectively, served the cause of her former associates. "The Constitution is not a suicide pact," wrote one justice in the last century, but the decisions taken by the Court over the past several decades demonstrate that it is becoming one. And there is precious little that can be done about it.

It is nearly 8 years since the neo-con journal, First Things, offered an insightful examination of the judicial usurpation of politics. In each of the five essays, the authors, all well known and respected figures in constitutional jurisprudence, repeatedly underscored, "The illegitimacy of the Court's departures from the Constitution..." I cannot see any evidence that this "usurpation of politics" has, or will, change. Neumayr, and, I suspect, the majority of Americans would agree with Justice Scalia, who wrote in 1996: "Day by day, case by case, (the Court) is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize."
-- Vincent Chiarello
Reston, Virginia

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