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6.6.08 @ 12:01AM

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I listened to Senator McCain's speech in Tenner, Louisiana. Eighty percent of what he said could have been delivered by a Democrat without a trace of irony. Seems to me that Senator McCain is moving perilously close to a position where Senator Obama could look at him and deliver the line that sank Romney's candidacy. At any rate, the real story of this election may be the impact of Bob Barr in Georgia and North Carolina. Nobody who follows politics will forget Ralph Nader's role in the 2000 election.
-- Mike Roush

To Knowbama is to Nobama.
-- David Govett
Davis, California

NO HOLDS BARRED
Re: Robert Stacy McCain's Laughing Last:

The Libertarian laughter seems to be misplaced. Bob Barr's candidacy seems to be counting on angry Conservatives making a protest vote against McCain and the Republican Party. However, it is these Conservatives who will be the most unhappy at the mistakes and the mess that a President Obama brings this country.

I am a Conservative who believes in a smaller, more effective, less intrusive government. I do not have strong views on abortion or gay marriage, but I oppose the creation of new rights by the judiciary and so I have sided with social Conservatives on these issues. However, if angry Conservatives throw this election to Obama, then I will never give them my support on these issues again. It is possible that two or three liberal justices may retire from the Supreme Court in the next several years...if we allow a President Obama to fill these vacancies, it may be 30 years before we have another chance to get a true conservative majority on the court.

So, vote for Barr at your own peril. All you will do is give us a President Obama. Then don't complain to me. I will be rooting for the other side on the issues that you care about the most.
-- Hugh Greentree
Columbus, Ohio

Those "conservatives" thinking of taking out their petty, yes, petty, frustration at the thought of voting for their party's nominee, Mr. McCain, and instead voting for the libertarian alternative, Mr. Barr (aka Ross Perot), might take a moment to read Thomas Sowell's most current column regarding the difference between Mr. McCain and the nut Obama. Get your heads screwed on right and see things for what they are...conservatives are the only people who think voting is a game. Democrats and liberals do not. If you want four years of total disaster and the reversing of the progress brought about by Reagan and those Republicans that came after, then please, indulge yourself with voting for Barr. But if you live in the real world you'll shut your complaining, whiny mouth and do the right thing. Support and vote...for McCain.
-- Steve Heafey
Alamo, California

Senator McCain's namesake, Robert, is right on about Bob Barr. The former U.S. Attorney for Northern Georgia, four-term Congressman and Impeachment Manager against Bill Clinton has engaged Russ Varney, a veteran of third party campaigns, who says he will raise forty million dollars. That is enough to put out a message that will draw disgruntled Conservatives' protest votes against McCain and Ron Paul followers' votes. As Barr suggests, the winner of the election in November could garner only a plurality rather than a majority of the vote in a three way contest. McCain's vote, undercut by Barr and Obama's vote, undermined by whites and Hispanics who feel threatened, could make the three-way race difficult to predict. The race for the presidency could hinge on which candidate, Obama or McCain, loses the most votes to protest and indifference.
-- Howard Lohmuller
Seabrook, Texas

If Bob Barr gets his way, the only people laughing in November will be Democrats who will have taken control of the White House, Congress, and ultimately the Supreme Court. What real conservative would want that?

In two years the Democrat party in Congress has undercut a booming economy (during the GOP Congress the economy was growing at 3 percent to 5 percent annually) and encouraged Islamic terrorists to hope that the days of Jimmy Carter's weak and anti-Semitic administration will be reborn.

Thanks to the ongoing conservative crack-up ("thanks," Rush), John McCain is the GOP's nominee. A nominee who has embraced President Bush's tax cuts (the one thing saving the economy), wants to fight terrorism, is sympathetic to social conservatives and is likely to pick a conservative Veep who will fill his shoes at the end of his one term. John McCain may not be the ideal candidate for conservatives, but he's better than Barr (another Jim Webb) or Barack "Jimmy Carter" Obama.
-- Michael Tomlinson
Jacksonville, North Carolina

TASTY IRONIES
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s All is Vanity:

Some ironies are just too delicious -- as in the legacy-obsessed Clintons having their legacy undone, not by a "vast right-wing conspiracy," but by the liberal media toadies who built it. How could such a thing happen to the "first black president" and the "smartest woman in the world?"
-- Arnold Ahlert
Boca Raton, Florida

While a scatological vocabulary on a on a former President of the Untied States is about as attractive as bird droppings on a Ferrari, you have to give the devil his due. If anyone knows about "scumbags," it is good 'ol Billy Boy Clinton.
-- Ira M. Kessel
Rochester, New York

STILL YELLA
Re: Mike Roush's letter (under "YELLA") in Reader Mail's Cap-and-Tirade:

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