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br> Mr. Shreve, who remains one of my favorite correspondents, does his usual fine job of making his points quite trenchantly. I appreciate his feedback. I respond only to correct his factually inaccurate description of the people I interviewed. Far from being the people who "tried to stop Ronald Reagan" and did all the other unconservative things Shreve bizarrely accuses them of, they are instead people I chose SPECIFICALLY because of their true Reaganite credentials. Keene, Bell, Carmen, Pickering and Shirley were with Reagan in 1976, fergoshsakes, AGAINST the establishment Republicans. Edwards has been a leading conservative since the Goldwater days. Regnery's Reaganite bona fides are beyond reproach and beyond question. Santorum was a superbly conservative senator, and the two think-tank heads are at the vanguard of the conservative ideas crowd, against the Beltway GOP mentality. And Norquist, of course, is a movement conservative superstar. Mr. Shreve's descriptions of them are not mere opinion, but demonstrably untrue. /p>

None of which takes away from the worthiness of Shreve's opinions about the various VP possibilities. I thank him for his thoughts.

p> FALSE PROPHET br> Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s The Prophet Obama : /p>

I generally avoid disagreeing with Bob Tyrrell because I admire him. That said, his assessment of McCain's chances against the "Prophet" Obama are, well, tinted with rose colored glasses. I've yet to see this steely toughness from the McCain campaign, that Mr. Tyrrell boasts of. Instead, I've seen an awful lot of pandering, (La Raza, per uno and A.G.W. for two, for all you bi-linguals) a whole lot of Republican and conservative bashing, a refusal to take the gloves off with this lightweight, Obama, per the Marquess of Queensberry's rulebook, and the insane refusal to knock sure fire issues out of the park for a 40-state landslide. Can anybody say more energy, less talk? How about the Dow is down: thank a Democrat. It's real easy, and you don't have to be a clueless Washington strategist to play.

Pelosi and Schumer want to sue OPEC for more oil, yet thousands of new American jobs are waiting to be created, if we'd only shelve the lawyers, and let the energy companies make energy. Jobs, energy, and economic / national security. Did I say 40-state landslide?

p>So, Mr. Tyrrell, you can make mention of Rush Limbaugh and his humor aimed at Prophet Obama, however, from what I see, not many others are joining in on the laugh. This campaign is McCain's for the losing, and a President Obama will be no laughing matter. br> -- A. DiPentima /p>

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