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2.26.08 @ 12:01AM

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Obama may mesmerize the automatons of the radical left, wow liberal news readers and scribblers, bilk rich elitists Democrats and inspire some conservative listeners to Rush Limbaugh but the only change he promises is a reversal of the last quarter century of national prosperity and American world dominance. What he promises is a return to the days of Jimmy Carter when the economy was a shambles; unions were strangling productivity; government regulations were crippling business; unemployment, inflation and interest rates were skyrocketing; and tin-pot dictators were routinely humiliating us.

John McCain is not the ideal candidate far from it, but based on what many conservatives are now demanding of Republicans Ronald Reagan would fail to measure up too. In November there will be two real choices for President -- John McCain and the Democrat. What it comes down to is, are you willing to totally hand the three branches of the Federal government over to radical Democrats as happened with the Congress in 2006? If so, then stay home, watch Oprah and be proud of your support for the "Obamanation."
-- Michael Tomlinson
Jacksonville, North Carolina

Look, folks, McCain wasn't my choice either. Thanks to Indiana's late primary date (May), I've had absolutely no say in the Republican Party's candidate choice. OK. We get it. McCain makes mud bricks rather than parting the waters. We will not be presenting the country with a clear conservative alternative to Hillary/Obama's mixture of Pluto water and snake oil. We get it.

Nevertheless, we should all heed W.F. Buckley's standard advice: "Always vote for the rightward most viable candidate." That this formula forces us to vote for a liberal centrist over a leftwing radical in some cases is a bitter pill; but it makes sense in choosing the bad over the worse.

In McCain, we have a man far from the conservative ideal. Hillary Eugene Debbs and Obama A. Hiss, however, make no pretensions in being conservative at all.

In 2006, many of us refused to support dozens of Republican officeholders on Election Day for the purpose of "sending a message" to the smug party leadership. What happened was the newly Democrat house and senate sent their own "message" back to us instead -- with a vengeance. Make no mistake what a Democrat White House will have in store for us.
-- Mike Dooley
Indianapolis, Indiana

Glad to finally see the awe-struck Conservatives finally take a swing at bloviating Liberal hot-air merchant Barack Obama. After years of bemoaning a possible Hillary candidacy, Republicans have sleepwalked into a disastrous situation where a McGovern-type ultra-Liberal will most probably capture the Presidency. Jennifer Rubin is close when she characterizes Obama as a McGovern-type Liberal, but in 2008 this election is looking more like 1976 when the hapless Carter began his malaise. While Republicans and Conservatives have been choking on their bile regarding Hillary Clinton, they have been hoodwinked by Senator Obama, the National Journal's Most Liberal Senator of 2007. Even Conservative Joe Scarborough has confessed to shivers down his spine when the airy Obama speaks. I too get shivers down my spine, but mainly from the scary, but now almost inevitable prospect of an Obama Presidency due to the incompetence of Republican's regarding the budget, New Orleans and missteps in Iraq.
-- Nathan Maskiell
Melbourne, Australia.

You have absolutely nailed it, a clear choice and the loser has nothing to say except "the better party won," onto next election.
-- S. Thornson

DO UNTO OTHERS
Re: Hal G.P. Colebatch's Money and Misery:

Hal Colebatch gives essentially three reasons why the heirs of J.R.R. Tolkien should not defend their property rights in his writings:

1) They presumably have enough money already.

2) Love of money can make your life miserable (just look at the Beatles).

3) It might interfere with his ability to enjoy The Hobbit in movie form.

None of these strikes me as an argument you commonly see in the American Spectator.

Colebatch is confused on one other point. John Lennon was not killed by "wealth and celebrity." He was killed by Mark Chapman.
-- Glen Hoffing
Shamong, New Jersey

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