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br> Springville, Utah /p> p> Aside from the general snotty tone of the author, could we ask Mr. Klein to check his definitions? I don't believe Mitt Romney was a venture capitalist. Look it up in your Funk & Wagnall's, please. br> -- Judy Beumler br> Louisville, Kentucky /p> p> It's so discouraging to read in a first-rate conservative publication that a candidate -- in this case Romney -- should be judged positively because of his economic plan. Folks, if this campaign is not about national defense and foreign policy, we will lose the election. If our next president doesn't deal effectively with the War in Iraq and the War on Terror, our country will lose a great deal more than some silly and irrelevant cash rebate, bureaucratic health care program or a half percent or so lower unemployment rate. With Thompson out, McCain and Giuliani are the only relevant candidates in this race. br> -- Paul Zisserson br> Cranston, Rhode Island /p>

Well, isn't this interesting? The American Spectator has obviously decided to subtly tilt to John McCain in this remaining GOP primary field. Friday's online issue leads with an article by Mr. Klein that concludes with subtle jabs at Romney by comparing him with Herbert Hoover, and indicates that the "real" Romney is now out of the closet. Now Hoover was not all bad, but 99.9% of American citizens know him merely as the President that gets credit for the great depression that FDR supposedly rescued us from.

I would be interested to know what Mr. Klein thinks any candidate of any party is going to tout as his beliefs in Florida. Mr. Klein, you may have missed the fact of the high percentage of elderly retired voters in Florida, or the high percentage of Hispanics and other minorities to whom health care is a monstrous issue. Please, I lived and worked in Florida for too long and too recently to NOT understand some of the issues and stands that are obligatory for a state wide or national candidate down there. And then of course there are the two venues cited in the article, a university and a cancer center. Wonder why you would talk about health care on a day when you have an appearance at a cancer center? Now I despise forced single payer health care systems like Madame Hillary has already tried. I find it harder to object to a system where government run plans are just one of the available choices, such as the situation is in Massachusetts. Lack of health care insurance by large numbers of folks, when combined with the astronomical costs of health care, mostly due to the plaintiffs bar, is a significant problem in our society.

All the other factoids and economic principles type of stuff that Mr. Klein cites, I find conservative enough to not turn me off to Romney, even though I have not been a particular fan, and I was a Fred Thompson supporter. I do like the idea of someone that has not made his/her entire career out of feeding at the government table being in the Oval Office.

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