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8.6.08 @ 12:01AM

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The total and complete ignorance of poor Ms. Miranda is appalling -- or, perhaps she's a hoot. Depends on how you look at her Tuesday morning offering, I guess. Maybe it's terminal myopia...

First, I'm no apologist for DeLay, Hastert, Blunt, or any of those stupid Republican dingdongs. Not even my old friend Don Young, or (God Forbid) Ted Stevens, the consummate cold fish.

Yet, I find it interesting that CNN ran four consecutive stories on the Stevens fiasco last week, utilizing the "Republican" label at every opportunity; don't recall they're ever citing Dan Rostenkowski as a Democrat... ever. And, that congressman from Louisiana with 90-grand in cold cash -- to which party did he belong?

No, I'm just an independent Independent -- never a GOP apologist. And I recall that one guy squeaked into congress and the Senate with something like $47 in his bank account. Then, just a few decades later, this supposed Public Servant was worth how many millions? Owned a couple TV stations too (under his wife's name, of course), and the FCC wouldn't allow a competing broadcast license in Austin TX for how many years? Decades?

Oooh, those Republicans may be inept, opportunistic creeps, but Lyndon B. Johnson was absolute slime, nothing less.

Most of your responding readers are terrific. But we do need those occasional letters of a humorous nature, even if the humor was unintended or semi-accidental. Thanks Caroline.
-- frost

ONE MORE VOTE
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell's Captain McCain:

What a lovely and wonderful article on McCain-things I never knew. As always you go off the beaten track to educate your viewers on what is most important. Your comments on Obama were also very informative.

I believe this guy is a shill for more socialist (i.e. communist) players behind him. I believe this election will be decisive in determining whether America survives as somewhat of a republic or sinks further into the mire of socialism. I also believe that Obama is the most dangerous and ruinous candidate we have experienced since LBJ and FDR.

As always I enjoy your articles so much, your sense of humor and intelligence are a real treat and escape from the vacuous talking heads of MSM.
-- Marlene Buchhalter
Southampton, Bucks County, PA

SMOOTH JEREMY
Re: Jeremy Lott's response to Charles Jackson's letter (under "Tommy") in Reader Mail's Card Shark:

Touche, Mr. Lott, in your response to Charles R. Jackson. It's too bad Democrats bent on wasting paper and ink on higher taxes and regulations to undermine the economy and zap individual freedom aren't as environmentally sensitive as The American Spectator. As with so many issues, Democrats would do well to emulate conservatives.
-- Michael Tomlinson

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