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Friends of Fred

6.7.07 @ 12:01AM

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I believe that John Fund's article in the May paper edition of the Spectator has pretty well nailed the reasons so many of us believe in Fred. By contrast, the articles by Mr. Tabin, Ms. Rubin, et al. miss the point either purposely or because their status among the political and/or journalistic activist elite will not allow them to see what is before their noses.

Yes, Fred is committed to doing things very differently then the conventional wisdom dictates. Yes, Fred is an entirely different type of politician from what we are usually subjected to. What entirely too many of your writers don't seem to understand is that that is precisely why we like Fred. That is precisely what Ronald Reagan was, and that is why he was underestimated all the time, yet often left the professional pols in the dust.

What is wrong with Rudy McRomney and the rest of the field? They are conventional politicians determined to run campaigns in conventional ways, and then govern in conventional ways. They want the job entirely too much and for the wrong reasons. That makes them lower than a snake's belly to a lot of us. Fred does not demean us. He doesn't tell us that we don't want what is best for America, or that we are too dumb or bigoted to understand. Fred, like Ronald Reagan, is one of us, or at least seems to be.

If Fred can do no more than cause the demise of sound bite news and television, he will have done the country a really good turn, and if he can return a modicum of old fashioned common sense and self reliance to the American citizenry, he will be a hero indeed.
-- Ken Shreve
New Hampshire

Well, here we are, with the Republican rank-and-file waiting for another candidate to declare. The problem, as I see it, isn't that the declared candidates are bad -- it's that the whole process started too early. By the time someone actually gets to vote for these candidates, everyone is sick of them.
-- Robert Nowall
Cape Coral, Florida

SALVATION AMNESTY
Re: Jay D. Homnick's Legacy Students:

If this immigration bill passes, Bush's "salvation" will be the death of America as we know it. We do not need a bill on immigration; we just need to enforce the laws already on the books. Then we need to stop making ctizens out of babies born to illegals and stop the "family unification."

We did not ask them to leave their families to come to America, let them make a choice, they can go home to their families.

Yes I voted for Bush twice, I mean there was not another choice. Come on, Fred.
-- Elaine Kyle

SEE HOW THEY RUN
Re: Andrew Cline's Eight Blind Mice and Roger Dier's letter (under "Making Nice") in Reader Mail's Frothy Musical Numbers:

The Democrat candidates' buffoonery and poltroonery should give Virginians fair warning about the importance of our upcoming general elections this November. It's chillingly horrible, yet sadly possible, that one of those Democrat dwarves could take the White House next year. And if that happens, we're need veto-proof conservative majorities in the House of Delegates and the Senate to dust off and crank up the rusty old machinery of secession.

Sure, any Republican on the podium (or in the Hannity & Colmes studio) Tuesday night would, and most likely will, make a better President of the United States than any of Monday night's Democrats. But Virginians should have a backup plan, just in case disaster strikes.

Rally behind, boys!
-- Doug Welty
Arlington, Virginia

You nailed it!

Here's what I think: The writing is on the wall -- it's time to buy GUNS!

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