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7.17.08 @ 12:01AM

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For those who hearken back to the glory days of Ronald Reagan, but seem to know very little about the Gipper or have a warm spot in their heart for his legacy and coalition Peter Ferrara's article should be a wake up call to do what Ronald Reagan would do -- vote a straight Republican ticket this November and stop Barack Obama and stymie the ambitions of the Democrats.

Before the droning begins of why vote for RINO McCain and Republicans consider the simple truth that based on what some conservatives claim to "want" Ronald Reagan would now be a RINO. How can I make that shameful claim? Based on what some assert is "conservativism" Reagan's record of compromising with Democrats, raising Federal taxes, deficit spending, creating a new Federal bureaucracy and the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act is a RINO legacy. The reality is that like George W. Bush, John McCain is far truer to the Reagan legacy than many self-described Reagan conservatives. In fact, in comparison to conservative turncoats exemplified by Pat Buchanan, Jim Webb, Bruce Bartlett and Bob Barr he's nigh onto the "second coming" of Reagan.

Of course, if one's inviolable conservative principles and/or moral superiority will not allow them to vote for the "lesser of two evils" then by all means stay home, do nothing, vote a loser third party and hope beyond reason that Obama isn't as bad as Ferrara and Dick Morris predict. But once you've screwed the pooch and saddled the country with Obama and a rabidly leftist Democrat Congress have the moral integrity to accept your responsibility in creating the Obamanation, because your one of his dupe's too.
-- Michael Tomlinson
Jacksonville, North Carolina

GOOGLE METHODOLOGY
Re: Jason Vieyra-Preston's letter (under "Who Goes Around") in Reader Mail's Border Voters:

I did not use quotation marks in typing in "Obama lies." Just plain old Obama lies. Stated as fact the way our friends on the left assert Bush lies. Thirteen million is indeed the number that popped up repeatedly when I did so, as with the 213,000 for McCain lies. I had no bias as to the number that appeared. In fact, had they all been at McCain lies levels there would have been no story. Is it possible the figures could change? Sure. Hey, Al Gore is a Google adviser. Had they when the article was written and I performed this simple task five times for each man named? No. Sorry. That's no lie. Just a fact.
-- Jeffrey Lord

PAINFUL DANCE
Re: W. James Antle, III's McCain's Immigration Two-Step:

I live in Tucson Arizona.

I wrote Senator McCain telling him the disastrous effects illegal immigration was having on Tucson.

First of all, the people most affected by illegal immigration are the middle to lower middle class legal American citizen. Wages get depressed (especially in the trades i.e. tile-setting, cement finishing, masonry, day-labor, roofing, asphalt work etc), social services are overwhelmed, and my property taxes get to pay for the education of illegal immigrants' children. Arizonans were also subsidizing the costs of illegals attending our state universities and community colleges. (Did you know that every Mexican is granted a free education in the Mexican University system? Why do I have to pay for their schooling here, when it's free for them in Mexico?)

There is only so much of the "welfare pie" to distribute, and legal Arizonans had to compete with illegals for access to social services.

Contrary to McCain's pandering to La Raza, La raza does not speak for the legal working Americans of Hispanic descent. I bet if an unbiased poll was taken of that demographic, the result would show that legal American (Chicano) citizens do not support illegal immigration.

Thousands of Mexican citizens drive unregistered and un-insured cars in Arizona. It is estimated that 50% of drivers in Arizona do not have car insurance (and even if they could get it, why get it if you have no assets to protect?). Uninsured motorist coverage is just about mandatory, but it won't cover the damage done to your car, it only covers injuries.

If I were caught working illegally in Mexico with false identification, they would put me in jail, and I would stay there until all the bribes and fines were paid.

Recently, a delegation of government officials from the Mexican border state of Sonora went to Phoenix to lobby for the right that the deportations stop, because Sonora could not afford the costs of educating the returning children.

I could go on and on about this problem, but the bottom line is that these illegal immigrants only came here to work. They did not come here to become American citizens. If the work was no longer available they would return to Mexico and Central America. I am all for a worker program, but no amnesty, no way.
-- Fred Edwards

Letter to the Editor

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