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Disappointing Democracy

2.25.08 @ 12:01AM

THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE
Re: Lawrence Henry's What a Disappointment:

Look at the bright side. With McCain in the White House, he will no longer be in a position to undermine a Republican administration from the Senate.
-- Mike Harris
MAJ, U.S. Army

Lawrence Henry's article about the disappointing McCain is right on target and assessment. McCain falls short for this military family whose son just left for his seventh tour as a pilot. Just because a person was a POW doesn't make their case for anything, other than the fact we are thankful they served honorably. It is what his record has been since his military service that is considered. Yet, for us military families the only other choice that would be horrendous would be Hillary or Obama. In fact, calling Obama Commander-in-Chief, when he won't even say the Pledge of Allegiance or place his hand on his heart symbolically and move his lips pretending to, has many of us wondering if he'd even swear in on Inauguration Day.

I suspect that if the Dems win, either Hillary or Obama, you will see a mass exodus from the military. I know droves that left after Clinton came into office in the 1990's. They couldn't abide him and wouldn't falsely pretend otherwise. Still, others with commitments, like our son has, will continue to serve. And we will see these fine men and women sent to places like Rwanda, while abandoning the other places the war must be conducted.

It makes this mother shudder to see the hysterics over Obama's worthless talk that contains nothing of substance. I hear more hope in my pastor's sermons than you hear in Obama's. It is clear that should he be elected we will get what we choose. And anyone that thinks this great country cannot fall is sadly mistaken. After years of debacles and senseless living we will be allowed to reap just what we sowed.

I continue to pray for my country and its leaders. Scripture commands that I do so, but now I pray with a sense of great sorrow and wonder how much longer we have. And I pray for those, like our son, who know the enemy still wants to defeat and conquer us and have the staying power, no matter how many generations it would take to win. Truly, God will be our only hope when all is said and done in November.
-- Beverly Gunn
East Texas Rancher

I am writing in Ann Coulter for President, and Rush for Vice President. Ann gets the top slot because she is much better looking than Rush.

No way on this earth will I vote for either of the liberals who get the nomination. The "elite" as you confirm got McCain nominated now let's see them win with him.

Lastly these same "elites" had better have the decency not to blame us for keester kicking they are going to suffer in November, if there is fault to be found it will be at their feet.
-- Jim Karr
Blue Springs, Missouri

Mr. Henry has to go back to Humphrey-Nixon? I think Dole-Clinton was pretty darn bad. Look, McCain wasn't even my 3rd choice, but to try to make the best of a mediocre situation, which, in a democracy, one is forced to do from time to time, President McCain sounds better than President Cypher (Obama begins with a big Zero) who promises change...of some kind. McCain can woo me, just like Romney had to. Not voting for a tax cut because there weren't spending cuts as well is some mighty sweet talk. Just think, I may get permanent tax cuts as well as a smaller government. Oh, and winning in Iraq. And a conservative Supreme Court Justice or two. Go on, McCain. I'm listening.
-- Andrew J. Macfadyen, M.D.
Omaha, Nebraska

Yes, another disappointing pundit letter lamenting the Republican choice probably written by a guy who laughed & referred to Ron Paul in sentences that included words like "kook, Fringe & wacko" and instead wasted their votes 4 to 1 on an unnamed Republican "poser" with a mile wide long history of non immigration enforcement and or Socialism or no position on anything over Ron Paul.

Ron Paul a guy who's spent his life defending the Constitution was rejected & shunned by the establishment as a kook.

What's so scary about a Constitutional government?

What do "you people" want anyway?
-- Smitty
West Hills, California

Personally, I will lose not a wink of sleep over the coming demise of the Republican Party in November. A party whose only recent contribution, if it can be called that, is incoherent nonsense called compassionate conservatism, does not deserve to be elected. Liberals have their own party, so they don't need the Republican Party as it stands, and conservatives don't need it either. Defeat is always a chance to get rid of failed policies and failed leaders and bring it new ones. Conservatives should stop wasting time, tears and misplaced hopes on leaders whose only manoeuvres are the sell-out and the retreat and rebuild their party on real convictions that appeal to ordinary voters - remember the Reagan Democrats of the 1980s? They also need to be far more articulate and competent than George W Bush at his best - remember when the Republican President was called The Great Communicator? How quickly we forget. If conservatives can start remembering the things that worked so well and forget about the things that don't then they have a chance to win back all the Reagan Democrats they won over in the 1980s and then lost, and that is a sure path to success.
-- Christopher Holland
Canberra, Australia

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