The American Spectator

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Mr. Lord has his mind on the nub of Senator McCain's present and future problems as a candidate. McCain calls too much attention to his own virtue and not enough to his plan for the country. It comes off like that person we all know who sits in the first pew at church or an aging athlete who can't let go of his past career. He would do better if he accepted a plan put together by his advisors and experts and sold the plan as its capable leader. The "Pristine" comment about ANWR, not wanting to drill there, epitomizes his problem and will be his albatross if he does not drop it. The same is true of global warming and his carbon credit-trading scheme. It is incompatible with new drilling that he correctly proposed to deal with a pressing and immediate problem. The country wants results not piety. Mitt Romney could help McCain immeasurably in a conversion from "pious virtue" to "taking care of business."

p>Bill Clinton almost made the same mistake when he started the "Man From Hope" myth before he proved he could lead. He was smart enough to drop it like a hot potato when he realized it would be up to historians to write such an epitaph. Senator McCain should take Mr. Lord's advice. br> -- Howard Lohmuller br> Seabrook, Texas /p>

I appreciated Jeffrey Lord's comparison of Thomas Dewey and John McCain. Hopefully, the latter will not suffer the fate of the former. McCain may want to borrow a page from the successful Nixon campaign and call on the silent majority of decent Americans to reject the anti-American radicalism of Democrat Obama.

p>That said I must admit I'm more intrigued in how Barack Obama is an amalgam of George McGovern, Mike Dukakis, Walter Mondale, Al Gore, John Kerry, Bill Clinton and most disturbingly America's worst President, Jimmy Carter. He seems to embody the worst characteristics of each of these men. He's egocentric, arrogant, paranoid, inept, inexperienced, hypocritical and cowardly, but what makes him even more insufferable and dangerous is he's pathologically devious and dishonest. Obama makes Bill Clinton look like a man of integrity and that's saying a lot. br> -- Michael Tomlinson br> Jacksonville, North Carolina /p> p>

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