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McCain Migraine

1.16.08 @ 12:01AM

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I think talk show host Michael Savage is the only one to attempt this so far. I suspect CAIR will rue the day it started up with a wild man like Savage. We need to bury these disgusting clowns under an avalanche of pleadings, motions, discovery requests, and other cash-draining maneuvers.
-- Nathaniel J. Pomrenze

Why aren't any of the so-called Presidential candidates addressing this issue?
-- Martin Owens
Sacramento, California

ATLAS SLIMMED
Re: Jeffrey Lord's Huckabee's Wink at Roe v. Wade:

Jeffrey Lord is brilliant! I never would have made the connection between an airline executive's pay and abortion. Why, if we elect Huckabee, we're liable to have armies of abortionists dragging pregnant CEO's out in the street and aborting their children on the spot! And we'll pay for it with a CEO tax!

There must not be much to do in the QubeTV board room.
-- Randy Gammon
Drexel, Missouri

It is manifestly apparent that Mike Huckabee has never read any Ayn Rand, such as Atlas Shrugged. The true villains of a Huckabee Administration's "Office of Fairness in Executive Pay" (FEP) would be the myopic government bureaucrats and their heavy handed thugs. The first (Party) Secretary of FEP would probably look like Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Leonid Brezhnev, or Patrick Leahy. When the American economy stops dead in its tracks, the FEP executives would break out the cigars and champagne and congratulate themselves on a job well done.
-- David Shoup
Augusta, Georgia

I'm assuming you did not read Mr. Lord's article before releasing it for publication. His ridiculous rationale for associating abortion with CEO pay is offensive and more worthy of political chat rooms than The American Spectator. Furthermore, I fail to understand why he would associate his conclusions with Mr. Huckabee's views more than those of many other candidates. This article was nothing more than blatant propaganda. You surely raised your magazines bar for content quality with Mr. Lord's article.
-- James Turner

LIFE'S A BEACH
Re: Ralph R. Reiland's Letter From Palm Beach:

Informative article, Mr. Reiland, but, what, exactly, was the point? Beach front property is still very expensive in southern Florida? And I must thank you for making such a good point about evolution possibly being a tool of the Intelligent Creator, as that would be how Darwin himself would have seen it. And the notion of sending an entire task force to a mall to deal with a teenager's hanging pants greatly illustrates the slow creep of fascism into the United States.

But I fail to see what the underlying point of your article was, and while I'm sure you had a good reason for this article, it has escaped me. Seriously, could you let me know?

Thanks!
-- Charles Campbell
Austin, Texas

MASSACHUSETTS ON PARADE
Re: Deroy Murdock's Mitt's Mythical "Mass. Miracle":

In his hit-job on Governor Mitt Romney's economic record in Massachusetts, Deroy Murdock wrote in The American Spectator that Romney presided over a "parade of economic stagnation and retreat."

What parade was Murdock watching? It certainly wasn't happening in Massachusetts. I know, because as a Massachusetts voter, political candidate, and Republican activist, I was there for Mitt Romney's governorship, and what I witnessed was one of the rarest feats of economic leadership on the entire American stage, one which makes Mitt Romney's record as governor a stunning success.

The bottom-line analysis is strikingly simple: When Mitt Romney walked into the corner office on January 1, 2003, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts staggered under a $3 billion budget deficit. Romney quickly reversed the tide of red ink, delivering the citizens of his state a $1 billion surplus by 2006. And he did it while preventing a Democratic legislature from raising income taxes or capital gains taxes.

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