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7.15.08 @ 12:01AM

HOPELESS CASE
Re: Robert Stacy McCain's Hope Against Hope:

I'm beginning to wonder if Obama couldn't actually blow the nomination.
-- Ty Knoy
Ann Arbor, Michigan

So writer McCain (relative?) uses hundreds of words to end with the line..."But wouldn't it be fun?" He wants us to have fun this November while we pull the lever voting.

That's his argument for voting for McCain? Fun...for that I can visit my dentist and get a tooth fixed without the shot! Or visit the smiley people at the IRS!

Maybe Senator Schumer should write a letter telling this author his ideas are bankrupt.

Fun for me is watching a video wherein Madonna claims to not having an affair with (you fill in the name, gender, etc.) because it would interfere with her "art" as a true artiste only knows!

Where's the humor of the late Senator Eugene McCarthy when we need it?
-- RJP
Bernallio, New Mexico

I take no comfort from a possible win from either of these candidates.

It is amazing to me that at a time when this country is crying out for genuine true leadership our choices were reduced to "Larry, Moe, and Curly." Now that Larry has dropped out, we are left with "Curly Obama," and "Moe McCain."
-- Jim Karr
Blue Springs, Missouri

Despite the brilliance of pundits out there (and I use the word brilliance most condescendingly), the presidential candidate to win the presidency will be the one with the least amount of supporters, team members, associates and family members tossed under the bus during the course of the campaign! So far Obama has the most (grandma, Powers, Wright, etc.), but McCain is doing his best to catch up (Republican Party of NC, Phil Gramm...). The ones left onboard may just be the only voters who care about these candidates!

I hope GM will be able to produce a large enough bus fleet for both campaigns. It might just help Detroit survive during these trying economic times!
-- Wolf Terner
Fair Lawn, New Jersey

After W frustrated Al Gore's coup in 2000 Democrats and their media allies believed it was inevitable that they would win big in 2002. They were wrong. In 2004 the media, polls and pundits expected a John Kerry Presidency. George W. Bush not only beat Kerry, but he had coattails that increased the Republican majority in Congress -- something Ronald Regan failed to do in his landslide reelection. If it hadn't been for the conservative crackup that has detrimentally hurt the GOP Democrats would still be in the political wilderness.

Unfortunately, punishing Republicans, "throwing away an election or two" or "taking one for the team" seems to be the motivating philosophy of self-described "principled" conservatives, "liberalterians" and paranoid paleocons. Thanks to them the country has been saddled with the Reid/Pelosi Democrat Congress whose one accomplishment is increasing earmarks (this year by 122% or $177 billion). Obviously, pork is back in style with the "principled" crowd, because there's been nary a peep from them about irresponsible Democrat spending.

As for being intellectually exhausted "liberalterians" may be, but conservatives have more than enough ideas to combat the 1970's liberalism that Barack Obama. In fact, McCain's economic plan is far more conservative than the ideas of big government Obamacons characterized by odious Bruce Bartlett.

While Robert Stacy McCain may think there is no civic virtue in electing a Republican I would argue there is a patriotic one when faced with the radicalism of Barack Obama. Obama and the Democrats plan to negate the Reagan legacy and pick up where Jimmy Carter left off.

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