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9.4.07 @ 12:01AM

POLITICS OF PERVERSION
Re: Liz Mair's Democrats Are Idaho Dreamin':

Linking to Liz Mair's article, your splash ad teaser posed the question, "Can He Be Replaced?"

To paraphrase William F. Buckley, "Hell yes -- by any random name in the phone book."

I'm sick to death of Washington, D.C. and all those perfumed parasites who keep pestering us, steal our earnings, act like petty little gods, but are really all just greasy old senile pervs deep down.
-- Jim Switz
Port Townsend, Washington

I suppose that Senator Craig could run for reelection and, in all likelihood, win. Most of the offices with incumbents who've done bizarre things, and who have survived multiple elections, are held by Democrats.
-- Robert Nowall
Cape Coral, Florida

Liz Mair should also have reminded Idaho Republicans of a past "Republican Idaho Nightmare" known as Senator Frank Church, Democrat, Idaho. It might, as Sam Johnson said about the prospect of being hung in the morning, "concentrate the (Idaho Republican Leadership's) mind(s) wonderfully."
-- Bob Keiser
Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania

Why is POLITICAL BIGOTRY so easily allowed by the Democrats and the activist old media?

If an entire race, sex or religion painted with the brush of a few, we would call it racist, sexist, or religious bigotry.

Still...everywhere among Democrats and the activist old media the battle cry is the same: "Can the Republicans recover?", "What is wrong with the Republicans and their family values?"

Why is political bigotry allowed?
-- Mike May
Whittier, California

FOIBLE FOLLIES

We all have our foibles, I'm sure.
Some are more foibled than others,
But need we parade them in public?
My average sisters and brothers

Do you think you would turn to politics
If your copybook read like a Novel?
Wouldn't you choose a less limelit life?
Or would you consistently grovel

To constituents, waving a glad hand
With a smile plastered onto your face?
Would turning your family inside out
Be worthy of the race?

Fame has its price, and sometimes
The cost may be worth the pay,
When the gifted leader who cashes the check
Can levitate over the fray.

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