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9.20.07 @ 12:01AM

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As a sort of footnote to Ms. Fabrizio's essay, there emerges another pattern to liberal behavior. I read that another vacuous celebrity, fabulously wealthy, has decided that "The View" is off limits to radical leftists because it has a mildly conservative cast member. I am speaking of Barry Manilow, who characterized Ms. Hasselbeck's views as "despicable."

This follows on the heels of Democrats refusing to participate in a Fox-sponsored debate relating to the race for the Presidency.

I see two aims in this cowardly behavior. First I posit the radical left wants field only "softballs" as if they have to respond to penetrating questions they will be exposed for the haughty, elitist, autocrats they are and their programs will be shown to be as effective as they are in Cuba and were in Russia.

Secondly, lack of spine seems to run very deep and long in the Democrat party. They urged the north to quit the Civil War; they quite literally surrendered thousands of Vietnamese to concentration camps and millions of Cambodians into murder camps. They supported a communist revolution in Nicaragua, and are now suggesting that we surrender to terror in Iraq.

In each of these military surrenders there is clear evidence that Democrat sympathies with the enemy made each of the wars more terrible because the enemy knew that if they could just raise the number of American soldiers killed the Democrats would surrender.

My dead friends from Vietnam I'm sure, if they were able, would thank the Democrats for freeing them from such horrible problems as home ownership and the possibility of foreclosure, trying desperately to find health insurance, raising children, and having to work.
-- Jay Molyneaux

FREE TO COLLECT
Re: Quin Hillyer's The Daring Possibility of Freedom:

I just wish Freedom extended to my wallet. I can't remember a single year in which Government did not expand beyond inflation and the per capita tax burden not increase in my 35 years of paying taxes. Even with Reagan's and Bush's income tax cuts, my parents didn't pay anything like the marginal tax rate most middle class have today. Hilleryism is just more of what has come before. Most of the people that will benefit from Hilleryism don't pay any or hardly any income taxes or even FICA for that matter. The people that will benefit from Hilleryism the most have more Freedom than most of us because they don't pay for what they get. That's Freedom (from something) for millions of able-bodied Americans. They say Freedom isn't free, really? Millions would disagree.
-- Thom Bateman
Newport News, Virginia

OVERDOSAGE
Re: Andrew Cline's Hard to Swallow and the "Bitter Medicine" letters in Reader Mail's Hillary Knows Best: :

My God, you act surprised!?!

Of course Hillary's going to recycle her socialistic plan, and for (in her view) good reason, she's assessed that those who want Something-for-Nothing are more numerous/powerful (and backed by the media for some unfathomable reason) than those of us who have a sense of responsibility.

Hey gang, we're outnumbered, it's that simple.

And candidly, I hold the present mickey-mouse inhabitant of the White House as a co-conspirator -- Dubya's done NOTHING to close the border and stop the continuing flow of Illegal (NOT "undocumented"!) Aliens. Nor, for that matter, have the majority of wimpy Republican senators (the lower-case "s" was intentional) who appear to be afraid of their own shadows, much less the demented Democrats.

I hold all of the aforementioned in total, absolute contempt. Just the thought of them, from Hillary to Bush, from Leahy to Trent Lott, ad nauseam, make my skin crawl.

And can you imagine what our Founding Fathers must be thinking? Where's Barry Goldwater when we need him so badly!
-- frost

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