The American Spectator

James Antle is dead wrong on the Republican recovery. There is no real difference between the Republicans and the Democrats. In fact, the Republicans could accurately be characterized as “Democrat lite.” They have repeatedly betrayed and sold out their base, and continue to do so. I recently read that Charlie Christ is the leading contender for the Republican nomination in 2012. Please tell me what the major differences are between Charlie Christ and Al Gore or Barack Obama.

No, Mr. Antle, I and many of my friends and family will not be voting for any Republican candidates. We will be voting third party as we did in the last election. By the way, I hope you understand that the selection of John McCain as the Republican candidate was the last straw. And I would like to point out that “amnesty John” did not lose the election because he did not get enough of the Hispanic or Black vote. He lost the election because large numbers of white voters either stayed home because they felt they had no dog in that fight, or voted for a third party candidate like I and my family members.

Gerald Celente is right in his prediction of the rise of a third party. There are massive numbers of white middle and working class voters who feel they have been disenfranchised and have no representation in our present government. We have no La Raza, MALDEF or NAACP. And we certainly have no one in the Washington political class that represents us. Our political elites on both sides of the aisle are too busy lining their pockets with money given to them by the lobbyists of various special interests, including foreign governments.
— Paul Martell

MONDAY MORNING QUARTERBACKING
Re: Ben Stein’s The Oil Shortage Hoax:

I wish Ben Stein had commented on regulating the financial products that threw oil prices into a cocked hat. As it is now, this debacle will almost certainly happen again, when, as usual, no one is looking. Monday-morning quarterbacking is only valuable if it produces change. Otherwise, it’s the definition of insanity
— Allan Rabinowitz

Will Ben Stein get up on his hind legs and proclaim that the “free market” that brought us this phony oil shortage (as Enron, Dynergy, et al. did to the California electricity market some years ago) is anything but free and needs adult supervision in the form of government regulations and watchdogs?
—Ralph

While I typically agree with Mr. Stein, I wanted to point out the following Reuters story to him, just so he has the latest from the CFTC.
— Zoran Naskov
Rutherfordton, North Carolina

After reading about the above, also the health care issue, I can’t understand why the American public has not had a march on Washington. I would go there if that occurred. I would like to see Obama out of office. Any possibility of impeachment based on un-American policies?
—Trudy

INSANELY NORMAL
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.’s Sanity From the Indian Subcontinent:

As a resident of Australia and as an economist who has worked for the Australian Government on environmental issues for nearly 20 years now, allow me to say that the cyclones referred to by Al Gore are not getting more and more violent — they seem to be about normal, certainly nothing that comes close to the catastrophes that Gore infers. There has been a serious drought in Australia, but against that there have not been serious floods — both of these events have enough significance in the nation’s history and geography that they are mentioned in the National Anthem, written well before Al Gore was even born. The prime determinant of the drought appears to be the El Nino event in the Pacific Ocean currents, but whether that is caused by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is very debatable. Suffice to say that I have seen references to the impact of El Nino on weather conditions that were written well before anybody even dreamed of global warming. The references to sea level rises are, like most of the “science” quoted by Al Gore, utterly without any foundation other that his overactive imagination. As for the bush fires, that is what happens when you have a large, drought affected continent. There were serious fires here early in the year, in the middle of a very hot summer, but before leaping to conclusions about that, it is best to remember that the major failures that have come to light so far were that the fires were often deliberately lit and the government response to them was poor and confusing and mislead many people into staying when they might otherwise have left for safety. Ignoring these points and screeching hysterically about global warming being the death of all of us is simply ridiculous and has little connection to what is happening in the real world.
— Christopher Holland
Canberra, Australia

THE REAL ENEMY
Re: Ben Stein’s We’ve Figured Him Out:

Nobody is willing to look at who or what is pushing this health care bill. Obama and so many more, including Ted Kennedy, are all speaking for the insurance companies.

If this bill passes and becomes law, the insurance companies will increase their customer base by about 100 percent — what business wouldn’t like that? Insurance companies support politicians like Ted Kennedy and Obama and so many others — if anyone does not believe this, they are choosing to be ignorant.