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10.29.07 @ 12:01AM

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The very first time I heard the story of Wayne Dumond was back in the mid- to late-nineties when Rush Limbaugh was lamenting his plight.

Mr. Limbaugh recounted the story of how Dumond had been hogtied and castrated by a deputy sheriff. In vivid detail, Mr. Limbaugh described how the sheriff placed Dumond's (well, you know) into a jar of formaldehyde for prominent display on his desk.

My distinct recollection is that Mr. Limbaugh was coming to the defense of Dumond. In fact, Mr. Limbaugh used the Dumond story to illustrate the excesses of the Clinton machine.

Now, if my recollection is wrong, I apologize in advance to Mr. Limbaugh. But if my recollection is correct, I think we need to be consistent about this story.

After all, if the most prominent voice of the conservative movement came to the defense of Dumond, then the American Spectator needs to lambaste Mr. Limbaugh for making Dumond a figure of sympathy.
-- M. Daniel Wilson
Starkville, Mississippi

STRANGE BEDFELLOWS
Re: Liz Mair's Running Interference for Rudy:

In her article, Ms. Mair makes a couple of almost off handed remarks about McCain and Romney not liking each other, then remarks that McCain and Rudy G. are friends. Ok, so be it. I do wonder, however, if friendship is not a sometime thing among politicians, and something that can change at a moment's notice. It has been said that McCain and Thompson were friends when in the Senate together. Are they no longer friends? Why would McCain not back Thompson as a fall back position, since Thompson backed some of McCain's bills in the Senate?

No one within the punditry seems to want to publicly note McCain's volcanic, hair trigger temper. I can only assume that no one considers temperament important in an American President. I do consider it important, very important. I do not want someone in the Oval Office, with his/her fingers on the controls of the most mighty, most lethal military in the world today, that is subject to unpredictable fits of temper at a moment's notice. I would argue that the Vietnam War blew up when a president with a volatile, hair trigger temper, LBJ, got mad over the Gulf of Tonkin incident, lost his temper, and whose ego would not allow him to thereafter admit a mistake. I would submit that, for good or ill, Sen. McCain has the same temper characteristics and same ego characteristics as LBJ. I don't want Sen. McCain sitting in the Oval Office making decisions in a fit of pique that cost Americans their lives unnecessarily.

That is one of the things that I like about Fred Thompson. Many folks, particularly the GOP leaning pundits are talking about Fred not being fiery, and aggressive in attacking the other candidates. They fault him for his calm, reasoned pronouncements of where he stands and where we, as a nation, should go. I see that as a distinct plus. I believe that he would make life or death national decisions coolly, deliberately, in a timely manner, but after logical dispassionate discussion and deliberation. In short, he won't get us in a war because he lost his temper. In my mind, he "looks Presidential." I can't exactly define that term, but I know it when I see it. None of the Dem. candidates and most of the GOP candidates simply do not "look Presidential."

We demand that Supreme Court Justice Nominees be of a certain temperament. We need to do the same regarding the candidates for the most powerful office in the world today, the American Presidency.
-- Ken Shreve

Whether John McCain is running interference for "America's Mayor" is irrelevant. What is important is that all the GOP hopefuls are brighter and more principled than any of the self-serving, pro-terrorist appeasing, tax thieving and degenerate Democrats. That includes coquette wannabe Mrs. Bill Clinton "the Nancy Pelosi of the US Senate."
-- Michael Tomlinson
Jacksonville, North Carolina

FALLS FROM GRACE
Re: Lawrence Henry's What Happened:

Mr. Henry's piece filled me with sadness -- I have no doubt that his preacher had few friends in the congregation, not just "after" the drunk driving arrest, but before it as well.

We expect our pastors to have all the answers, to have their lives in perfect order, to never, ever slip up. We attend churches which profess that "all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God"...and then we deny our pastors' own humanity by insisting they must not ever fail at anything.
-- Brad Bettin

Lawrence Henry does an excellent job telling the story of his Pastor's fall from grace. I can empathize with him. Last year a former church where I had been a member and had served on the Deacon board, found that its Senior pastor had been involved in homosexual relations. Although my family had left the church several years ago due to an out of state move, we were still shocked to our core. This church went through the same stages as Mr. Henry describes. And as he describes, our Sr. Pastor really had no close friends in the congregation. Now almost a year later this church is beginning to grow again and is carrying on with its ministries. This speaks well of the remaining pastors and congregation that continued to focus on God and His work.

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