The American Spectator

Like a majority of conservative Republicans I am mystified that local Party bosses chose an Obamacon to represent the GOP in this special election. Had they selected a solid Republican (a center right candidate) there would have been no need for a Hoffman candidacy or even the abhorrent thought of a Democrat winning the marginally Republican seat.

To defeat Democrats (all who are liberals even Antle’s prized blue dogs) conservatives must stand by Ronald Reagan’s GOP — a party further to the right than when Reagan was President. Unless that happens then Obama, Pelosi and whoever replaces Reid will continue to control the political agenda and try to morph America into a Euro-trash state west.
— Michael Tomlinson
Jacksonville, North Carolina

A VENDING MACHINE AWARD
Re: J. Christian Adams’s The Precedented Peace Prize:

I heard the Nobel Committee is going to have vending machines to distribute the Nobel Prize next year.
— Jim Tecson
Virginia Beach, Virginia

DIRECTED BY MUSLIM FAITH
Re: Jay D. Homnick’s Go Fly Al Qaeda:

The men who flew those airplanes into the World Trade Center towers were not Muslim terrorists? They were Al-Qaeda terrorists who happened to be Muslims, and their being Muslims was incidental to the actions they took that day? Not really relevant, eh?

They were Muslim terrorists in the ordinary and correct sense of that usage. Their conduct was animated and directed by their Muslim faith.

What you propose, that is, identifying these men as “Al Qaeda terrorists” is akin to writing a history of the Second World War that notes Hiroshima was attacked on August 6, 1945 by a Glenn L. Martin Company bomber, rather than by an American bomber. Would that make any sort of sense?
— Paul Kotik
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida USA

IN DESPERATE NEED OF PUBLICITY
Re: Patrick O’Hannigan’s Arguing with Bono:

Sounds like Bono and Sting, though talented, probably should refrain from anything related to things other than their music. They have benefited from the “American Way” with their huge riches, and now, like many others, glow when mentioning Obama’s name, because of their own racist tendencies. It seems to me that many of them just cannot help themselves lathering praise on this radical leftist, do-nothing, with an empty resume and a book or two filled with racist comments. Perhaps Bono, assuming he can read, hasn’t read about the “controlling Whitey” in “Dreams from my Father”!! Methinks that Bono and Sting, both well past their prime and in need of ANY publicity, had better get out of their writing tents and try keeping up with the news. Of course, they are both from semi-socialist societies, from which they both hide their wealth, lest it be taken from them by taxes!!
— Bob M
Ft Myers, Florida

Sting’s right: The virtual Obama is the real Obama. Frightening thought, isn’t it, that we have a president that is illusion —or, as a Western saw goes, “All hat, no cattle”?
— C. Kenna Amos Jr.

DEATH ON DEMAND
Re: Ken Blackwell’s Playing for Keeps:

Obama and the Democrats are careful to avoid stating that they are the party of abortion on demand — paid for with federal funding. They skillfully cloak their intent with talk of rights and hide abortion riders in their 1000 plus pages of health insurance bills. They do this knowing that even their most ardent supporters, especially church going minorities, Latinos and blacks, do not support abortion rights. In fact, the vast majority of church going Democrats fall within the ranks of pro-lifers.

As the Democrats, especially Madam Pelosi and Madman Reid, spin and rename the health care debate, Conservatives would be well served by shining a spotlight on the wording of the bill that guarantees abortions on demand and the funding that follows it. Keep the point short and simple: the same people who want to bring us the “Death Panels” for the elderly are the same people behind the legislation for death on demand. The argument lacks subtly, but what has subtly done for the GOP lately?

Conservatives are fighting not just for the fiscal soundness of America. They are fighting to save its very soul from The One and his disciples.
— I.M. Kessel