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Fallen From Grace

7.12.07 @ 12:01AM

UP AGAINST A WALL
Re: W. James Antle III's Final Countdown:

About McCain's survival:

The Republican nomination can be had for the asking, by McCain, Giuliani, Romney or any other telegenic soul ready to keep a promise to (1) build a fence along the southern border of the United States, and (2) take all measures necessary to halt the flow of aliens entering the states from the south, and (3) systematically identify and deport all aliens in the U.S. illegally. Make that the foundation of a campaign; much can be built on it; nothing can be built without it.

The general election can be won by any semi-skilled politician willing to attach to any federal legislation an amendment making it a felony to enter the U.S. illegally. Add a passage that allows the border patrol or the National Guard to shoot back when fired upon, and the general election would be mostly formality.

Libertarians and Reagan Democrats are deserting Bush because his promise to mount a steadfast national defense rang false when it became apparent he does not want to secure the southern border. Many wonder why he demanded the abridgment of various civil liberties if he doesn't want to curtail movement into this nation by all the flotsam coming up the trail from Mexico. Why, for example, turn license to drive into a national identity card, when a thousand people without papers walk across the line every day.

The reason presidential politics have become broad farce and dance contest is that candidates so seldom know what the issues are. This year, and next year, the principal issue is illegal immigration, and the winner will be he who addresses it as a crime and a threat to national security. (Thus making all promises of national security ring true.) Anyone who ignores it is bound to wander through the primaries wondering what went wrong, as McCain is doing now and will stop doing soon, for one reason or another.

Straight talk, anyone?

-- Edmund Dantes
Coshocton, Ohio

Is it possible that the wind beneath John McCain's wings in 2000 was due more to the MSM's visceral hatred of George Bush, which translated to servile slavering on the Straight Talk Express? Now that McCain supports the war in Iraq, coming down on the side of George Bush, even as he criticizes Bush's "mistakes," MSM can concentrate their efforts on picking off Republican hopefuls one at a time.

The Boys on the Bus are a fickle lot.

Besides, Senator McCain is eight years older and the open-throat shirt is a mistake, Sounds harsh, I know, but there it is.
-- Diane Smith
South San Francisco, California

Senator McCain has long behaved as though he thought he was doing the electorate a favor -- deigning to grace us with his candidacy. That behavior always showed NO respect for the people he would need to get to the Big Dance.

What were those supercilious words he used to describe the Southern, religious conservatives?

I am one of those Conservatives not dismayed in the least to see him struggling for help from the little people he happily disdained for so many years. Schadenfreude? You bet!
-- Judy Beumler
Louisville, Kentucky

I can guarantee you that had Ronald Reagan tried to force amnesty for millions of illegal aliens on the people who supported him, he never would have been president.

Letter to the Editor

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Taxes, Foreign Policy, John McCain, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Environment, Books, Constitution, Law, Military, Iraq, Iran, NATO, Immigration