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The Plot Thickens

4.27.07 @ 12:01AM

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Within the Republican Party, there are differences, especially concerning abortion and the immigration issue. However, rational discourse is possible among us and there is hope that opposing sides can find compromise and common ground, not so with the Democrats. With them, we have nothing in common, not love of country, not respect for authority or God, not respect for self-sacrifice, not respect for self-reliance, not reverence for family, or marriage, and certainly not belief in absolute truth. They are in a completely different world and we need to keep them there.
-- Charles D. Sampson
Melbourne, Florida

Michael Chertoff will not be Attorney General. He cannot even run Homeland Security competently. Chertoff may have the intellectual qualifications, unlike the hapless Gonzales, but he is an inept administrator.
-- Louise S.
Frederick, Maryland

LESSON OF THE DAY
Re: Robert A. Levy's They Never Learn:

When will the gun controllers learn? Sadly, maybe it really will be never. But when enough of them have suffered the loss of loved ones or know someone who's lost a loved one because law-abiding citizens had been disarmed, maybe they will?

With what just occurred at Virginia Tech, the controllers haven't stopped long enough to really consider that maybe, just maybe, fewer people would've been slaughtered had one or some of the people in those classrooms had possessed a legal, concealed firearm.
-- C. Kenna Amos
Princeton, West Virginia

I would be interested in a study that compares and contrasts the crowd that cries for more gun control, the peacenicks who want to legalize "medical" marijuana, and those who are interested in keeping abortion legal. Think about the three.

Advocacy for more laws allowing the state to remove my ability and right to protect myself in the event of a crime, all the steps necessary to further the cause for legal drug use, topped off with the lawful ability to kill the most defenseless people on the planet. I wonder who would participate in a combined poll and allow their name and face to be shown with the results.
-- Kane
Greenville, South Carolina

RALLY ENDER
Re: John T. O'Connor's letter (under "Rally Round the President") in Reader Mail's Mall Rats et al. and Quin Hillyer's Conservatives Must Rally:

I just read Mr. O'Connor's response to Quin Hillyer's piece on why I must "rally round" Mr. Bush. Balderdash! And for the record I voted for the man twice. Ugh, but at those particular times, what choice did I have?

While I applaud Mr. O'Connor's attempt to list the apostasies of President Bush and give him the benefit of the doubt due to the vast litany of the President's shortcomings please add the most three most damaging to our country, long term.

Numero Uno...McCain/Feingold!!! Nuff said!

Second, his absolute fealty to the Texas Buddy System that is nothing more than a sick cover for old time cronyism. See our current AG and Harriet Miers among others. This president squandered whatever political capital he had accrued defending lame and incompetent members of his "posse."

And finally, his willingness to tie the hands of our soldiers and marines (will not mention here the same problem he has imposed on our Border Agents) with PC rules of engagement that has led to the quagmire the Dems will beat us over the head and in the ballot booth with for years to come.

Ok, a fourth. Who the hell is running the White House media machine? Is there one? The lack of response, the lack of aggressiveness in the national debate is debilitating to us out here waiting for anything to combat the left-wing media, the Dems, etc.

Discouraged but still a Republican and, more importantly, a conservative.
-- Mark S. Griffith
Parker, Colorado

NOT CHUCKLING
Re: Jay D. Homnick's Partial Rebirth of a Nation:

I just want to say thanks to Jay Homnick for his article on Schumer.
-- G. Klecan

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