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The Arrogance of Horsepower

5.2.07 @ 12:01AM

COALITION BUSTING?
Re: G. Tracy Mehan, III's A Knife to the Throat:

I just finished reading "A Knife to the Throat" by Tracy Mehan. It is about time someone at your organization told the truth about the cross-dressing, baby-killing, pro-homosexual, anti-gunning, presidential hopeful from New Yorker! There is nothing good about this man. A man cannot believe in killing babies and be a man of stature or a man of integrity. It seems that many at your organization are throwing your lot in with the devil by promoting such an abomination as Giuliani. Your magazine has tried to force him down the throats of conservatives in past issues and articles on your website. I'm here to say that my conservative beliefs and faith in Jesus Christ would never allow me to vote for such an anti-Christian, anti-conservative. Your continual support of Giuliani has led me to stop purchasing your magazine. If I want to read about a baby-killing liberal I'll purchase the New Republic or some other such publication.

Will your magazine pick up the push for Bloomberg to run for office as well? I don't think we need another Big City New York liberal running for the Republican ticket. If you really want to do something for the Republican Party and the Conservative cause, you would be better off supporting a candidate with Judeo-Christian values that does not come from New York. True Americans out here in flyover country don't want some East Coast quasi-Republican. We want a real candidate with real flyover values.
-- Gary Martin
Eden Prairie, Minnesota

Quite frankly, I found Mr. Mehan's, hysterical polemic about Mr. Giuliani to be disingenuous, vulgar and distasteful. It's the typical war room hit job usually associated with those in the Clinton camp. But it's nice to see that a principled social conservative like Mr. Mehan can get down and dirty with the best of them. I dare say that Mr. Giuliani's graciousness far exceeds that of Mr. Mehan's. Then again, isn't it so typically hypocritical of a D.C. insider, like Mr. Mehan, to shriek that Giuliani's candidacy is a "knife to the throat of the Reagan Coalition" and a "lethal threat to social conservatism"; this coming from a man who had no such dire concerns while serving under both Presidents Bush. My admiration for Bush 43 notwithstanding, seems to me the Reagan Coalition hasn't fared very well under either President Bush. But perhaps like George Tenet, Mr. Mehan didn't see his continued involvement with both Presidents Bush as his "Faustian bargain." You're free to hold Mr. Giuliani's feet to the conservative fire, that's your right, just try and be a bit less waspish about it.
-- A. DiPentima

Almost every Republican politician claims to want to re-energize the Reagan Coalition. Almost every one of these politicians is either lying or has no idea exactly of what the Reagan coalition was composed. The option is still there, in my view, for the right man or woman.

It is my view that many Democrat union folks would vote for a Republican that stood up to those that want to allow the unlimited influx of folks willing to work for below scale wages and few or no benefits.

It is my view that many Democrat Catholics, Baptists, and other devout Christians would vote for a Republican that stood up for the right to refuse to perform fetal murder.

It is my view that many Democrat every day voters would be willing to vote for a Republican that stands for the proposition that Balkanizing the American citizenry and then assigning rights to individual groups, instead of to all equally is wrong.

It is my view that many Democrat voters would be willing to vote for a Republican running to uphold our 2nd Amendment rights and hunting rights against a candidate that can be shown to wish to restrict these rights to the societal elite.

These were all willing participants in the Reagan Coalition. You can not just advocate some few parts of the Reagan Revolution agenda, and expect to hold on to all those votes. Just as you can not be a part time, or compassionate, conservative and hold on to the conservative base.

I believe that Fred Thompson is one who will insist on standing up for the entire list of issues that were so successful in establishing the Reagan coalition that was so unstoppable. I hope that I am right, because it is obvious that the currently announced GOP candidates will not advocate and do what is necessary to activate that optimistic and unstoppable force.
-- Ken Shreve
New Hampshire

Another "social conservative" who would rather turn the country over to Hillary (and a rock-solid Democratic majority in both Houses) than compromise principle? So a Republican victory (and it looks like victory is only possible with Giuliani) would finish them as a force in American politics? To quote the cockroach in Men In Black, that is acceptable.
-- PPemb

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL POLICE
Re: Eric Peters's The Corzine Double Standard:

Public servants who don't think the rules apply to them, like the New Jersey governor and his driver, a state trooper, are dangerous. They are a threat to individual liberty, public safety and the rule of law. Fortunately in the Corzine incident the consequences were limited to themselves.
-- Paul DeSisto
Cedar Grove, New Jersey

What a refreshing article -- amen, amen, amen. I knew at the very beginning this case stuck to high heaven.

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