Letters to the Editor
moira kelly
Published Letters: 305 Editor's Choice: 37
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Mr. Leonard,
[Read the article: McCain continues war on capitalism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]you write: "The presidential candidate just can't resist dragging the holiest Republican values through the mud." You're kidding me, right?
Would it be possible for Salon to stopping sucking McCain's cock long enough to publish a serious, well researched, well sourced, and honest accounting of John McCain's life? It would include, but note be limited, to the following:
1. Keating Five. Please include that McCain alone of the five kept his seat. All others - all Democrats - left office upon completion of their terms. Also include that McCain took more money than any of the others. And that it costs the taxpayers billions to bail them out. And don't leave out the good stuff about the involvement of McCain's wife and her father in shady Keating investments.
2. The dumping of his invalid wife when she proved to be less than useful to him.
3. The flip flopping on everything from Roe V Wade to immigration to evangelicals.
4. His mental instability and his physical frailty are incompatible with being president.
5. The only solution he can see to Iraq is a military one. And since there is NO military solution to Iraq...we'll be there for 100 years.
There is more, lots more, for someone with a serious work ethic and a nose for scandal to find out. The reason that so many GOPers hate McCain is because he is a colossal hypocrite. He is one of the most corrupt members in Congress. He has never earned an honest nickel in his life. The MSM love him, and they won't lay a finger on him.
I expect better of Salon.
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Someone wrote:
[Read the article: It's Super Tuesday: What will women do?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"This is single moms she is talking about; you don't care about foreign policy if you can barely afford your kid's school supplies."
Well, maybe if she understood that the reason she can barely afford her kid's school supplies (despite being taxed to the bone)is because all of her money is going into military socialistic schemes, she might be interested in why the US has troops stationed all around the world, and she might be interested in foreign policy. I've done voter outreach and registration for 30 years. It has been my experience that women who don't vote, say that don't vote because "it has nothing to do with them."
When you explain to them the connection between their lack of health care, and the lack of pension benefits, and poverty among elderly women (despite a lifetime of doing all the unpaid stoop labor in their families and in their societies), and the high cost of birth control (and that the local wing nut pharmacist can now crawl into your knickers with you), increased student debt, and so on regarding the disappearance of the middle class - AND you connect it to policy, they start paying attention. And they get really angry. And they vote.
This really isn't rocket science. Once they understand the connections, they start paying attention.
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I really wonder
[Read the article: The race for California]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]if it will matter much who is the Democratic nominee. I've studied the 2004 electoral college map, and I think that Obama and Clinton will carry every state that Kerry/Edwards carried in 2004. He/she need only carry Ohio or Florida (both lost to voter intimidation, voter fraud, and voter suppression) to win. Does anyone honestly believe that CA or HI or NY or MD or ANY of the blue states will go for a repub in 2008?
The keys are FL and OH. By all means, vote today (or next week) for your guy or gal. But if you really want to win, send money and labor to FL and OH. That's where the battle will be won (or stolen).
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@soopergrover, you write:
[Read the article: The race for California]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Hillary may win the nomination due to some chicanery with Michigan, Florida and the Super Delegates however this will only dampen those democratic voters who are already on the fence about her and completely reaffirm what the independents and moderate republicans think about her."
Wait just a minute. What happens if she wins without what you refer to as "chicanery?" And when push comes to shove, I don't think the DNC or the RNC will penalize Florida - not unless they want to lose. Remember, the popular vote gets you nothing. Most Democratic voters I know will vote for the nominee - even if they have to hold their noses. (I've done it my whole life.)
As for independents and moderate republicans - they don't count in red or blue states. And we don't know how they'll vote in a state such as OH and FL. And let's not forget, McCain has his own baggage. Keating Five. Drug embezzling wife. Adultery with female subordinates while on active duty. Ignorance on the economy. Mentally unstable. Volcanic temper. The list is long.