Letters to the Editor
rphillips111
Published Letters: 222 Editor's Choice: 3
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Bush destroyed the Goldwater-Reagan legacy
[Read the article: Why Ronald Reagan didn't completely suck]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]George Bush and Ralph Reed and Carl Rove destroyed the political legacy of Goldwater and Reagan, but not by implementing their policies.
In state after state, George Bush installed bushites in congressional and Senatorial slots, and decimated or silenced Goldwater and Reagan adherents in the Republican party--at least here in the South. Look at what they did to Katherine Harris in Florida? Pressured her into not running for the Senate so Martinez could be elected to give the party a hispanic face, then when she didn't toe the line and bow out of the Governor's race in Florida the White House worked against her in the Primary and the election.
In Georgia, the Bush Candidate for U.S Senator--Saxby Chambliss--was a guy who ran for the senate on the platform and pledge he would support George Bush. What about serving the people of Georgia? It has been true everywhere, including Indiana and Ohio, New Jersey and Maryland, where White House candidates were forced on state parties to give the Republicans a new face and a new philosophy--definitely not in the spirit of Goldwater nor Reagan.
Conservative? Not the Bush White House.
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Winning the Cold War
[Read the article: Why Ronald Reagan didn't completely suck]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There is no doubt that the Reagan military buildup, which Russia would be very hard pressed to provide resources to match US resources, provided a resl stimulus to ending the Cold War.
But the Polish Pope--John Paul I, and Mikhail Gorbachev--were the main architects of the end of th Cold War. Reagan was hesitant to accept the change. But warhawks in the US Senate like Sam Nunn--who fought against ending the Cold War to the very end--were far more to blame for US hesitance to acknowledge the world had changed than was Ronald Reagan.
And here is something the anti-war crowd needs to be reminded of. Goldwater called for ending the Draft in 1964, the Republicans with Rumsfeld at the Defense Department finally endded the draft in the 1970s. After the Iranian takeover of the Tehran emabasssy in 1979, Sam Nunn and others in Congress immediately began trying to revive compulsory service and I am convinced only Ronald Reagan, who announced in his 1980 acceptance speech at the Republican convention "Ther will be no Draft", kept the country from bringing back the Draft. If Jimmy Carter had got re-elected, the draft would have been reinstated.
Sam Nunn has endorsed Obama, and I suspect a revived Draft or something worse--universal national service--will be part of Obama's plans if he becomes President. After all, Obama is a collectivist. He believes in the State, in groups, in "equality", not the indididual.
Sam Nunn the militarist is expecting to have a prominent role, I think, in an Obama administration.
To all those ruthless naive "idealists" in the "Obama Youth", rmember those tears shed over answered prayers.
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ascist sox puppet?
[Read the article: Why Ronald Reagan didn't completely suck]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Jeffersonian, before I finished reading your post, I recognized your trademark way with words. Even your distinctive observations were recognizable.
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Don't disparage Reagan
[Read the article: Why Ronald Reagan didn't completely suck]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Diderot,
Anyone who compares McCain to Ronald Reagan knows nothing about at least one of them, maybe both.
McCain wraps himself in the flag, supports world-wide warmaking, respresents inside-washington special interests, and wants to subject this nation and its treasury to National Service (like Obama), He has almost nothing in common with either Goldwater or Reagan. He just likes to fool people by using their names. He's big government, big military, and big business. McCain's a neo-Rockefeller Republican.
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What?
[Read the article: She won't go easy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How could anyone claim the media have "let Hillary off easy"?
The media have egregiously supported Barack Obama during this campaign and mercilessly trashed Hillary Clinton. It's a disgusting spectacle beyond anything I have ever seen in politics before.
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Could West Virginia forshadow the November Election?
[Read the article: Can Barack Obama win West Virginia?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I sure hope to hell it did.
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The louisana Congressional race
[Read the article: Democrat tarred by anti-Obama attacks wins congressional seat]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Lots of factors affect the results in given political races. The District one race in Mississippi actually was between two conservatives, and the conservative democrat won.
It might presage a return of conservative democrats to congress from the South. Let's hope so, especially if Obama gets elected President. Someone will have to restrain him, and the Republican party doesn't seem willing to do the job.
There is still time for Republicans to exercise buyers remorse and pick someone besides McClain, who I think is sure to lose. If this were Russia in 1917, McCain is Kerensky and Obama is Lenin. Kerensky rode out of Russia in an open car and left the people of Russia to the monstrous bolsheviks.
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How will Obama get to the majic 270
[Read the article: How will Barack Obama get to 270?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This was a really interesting article from a very practical perspective.
The short answer to the question is John McCain, who is not making overtures to liberal bloggers.
Unless the Republican Party and other interested entities are willing and able to expose the real Obama to the american public, Obama will surely hit the 270 electoral votes and then some. 32% McCain clinched the nomination with media support and independent voters in the primaries, but the misnamed "straight talk express" is no match for the slick and ruthless "Obama Train to Washington".