Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 121 Editor's Choice: 4
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And yet another interview...
[Read the article: Conversations: Sheryl Crow]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]where she forgets to mention her undying love for me...she is so coy about us...
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As my fiscally conservative friends like to point out...
[Read the article: Republicans make Fox News sick]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]markets don't lie. The "truth" of FOX is now being shown in their ratings.
As much as I think there is a place in this country for conservatism nothing could make me happier than to see the Fox brand of it die, and I would prefer the instantaneous hit by a bus death over the slow, withering on the vine one.
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You Sir...
[Read the article: Mukasey's radical worldview is now the norm]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]are one of the best, if not the best, political commentators of this era. It is a shame that your legacy is to record the decline and not the rise of our Republic.
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Ouch brother...
[Read the article: How does a single father ever get laid?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]that was depressing but like others pointed out you're kind of making your own prison here...if the nanny's flirting with you then why the hell not, though she might have some father issues going on but if you set the ground rules up front, whatever they may be, it could be a fun relationship, at the very least you might get laid as opposed to masturbating to cable...I'm just saying...
...and Carmen's got to go, not sure what happened between you two but from the small bit you wrote it seems she's getting a lot of enjoyment out of tormenting you by her presence, her new life, etc.
And of course the required bottom line, it's still all about Ava and Chet, don't forget that. I'm married, with 4 kids. What a lot of people tend to forget or lose sight of is that part of making it all about the kids is actually being selfish and making it partly about you. I selfishly take a half hour each day to work out, no ones allowed to bother me. It doesn't seem much but my little half hour of personal self torture allows me actually hit the refresh button with the kids and be a better father to them. I've seen people get resentful to their kids because they dedicate 24/7/365 to them. I think changing the equation to 23.5/7/365 is acceptable to be a better parent to them...ok, little tangent there but like I said, most of the time we make our own prisons...
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Does Salon have a some sort of rule...
[Read the article: Super Tuesday results]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]about making graven images of Mike Huckabee? I'm just asking?
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Reagan wasn't all that Reagan himself...
[Read the article: Why McCain provokes paranoia on the right]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]time and nostalgia blur the memories a bit but ole Ron grew rather nuanced in regards to gays, abortion, immigration and so on...and the notion that he was slipping the Iranians weapons in exchange for American hostages held by their proxies in Lebanon and cash, then using that money to fund an illegal war in Central America seems not to matter...one would think that act alone would be seen by Rush and team as being traitorous at best...and of course the biggest betrayal, when 241 Marine lives were sacrificed in Lebanon Reagan's response was to bug out...
...I'm quite enjoying the side show of watching the fascist section of the GOP eat it's own.
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Let the deBushification of the country begin...
[Read the article: Requiem for a right-wing dream]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Now that the Sturmabteilung wing of the GOP is leaderless (and no invoking Godwin on me here, it's a valid comparison, I give you Andrew Sullivan's article from last year as evidence - http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/05/verschfte_verne.html)
it will be wonderful to both watch the hate mongers eat their own as well as McCain try to walk the tightrope between them, the Christian radicals in the GOP and the moderate centrist Independents.
He might be able to ditch either the Brown Shirts or the Spanish Inquisition crowd but not both and he still needs to retain a solid core of independents who, if they are similar to me, are repelled by both. Given that, it's going to be an interesting year of nauanced speeches by Johnny Mac as he presents himself as both the man that can bring the hate for the right wingers and the man that can bring the nation together for the independents. In other words he's going to need some Romney level flip flopping to keep pace but have the press play along and ignore the flops (which given past records seems like they'll be happy to do as long as they can get a good seat and sandwich on the Straight Talk Express).
Of course a Clinton victory makes it easier. McCain will have to do less convincing as the John Birch Society members and Puritans will have less of a problem holding their nose and voting for him if the personification of all evil is the opposition. I would also daresay the prospect of four more years of the Clinton sleaze machine operating this country will drive lots of independents to his side.
Which brings me to the conclusion that the biggest threat to the "you can pry it from my cold dead hands" folks, the neocons, and the inerrants would be an Obama candidacy. Obama not only attracts the independents but also, in a slice of Rovian strategy is peeling off the moderate, centrist Republicans like those in the belt of towns and counties around Philly, who are fiscally conservative but socially moderate.
Clinton brings us four more years of a split country and lines the pockets of Rush, Hannity, Coulter and their ilk with gold as their audiences increase along with their advertising and speaking engagement rates. McCain brings us closer to the center but he's a little bat shit crazy and I'm not so sure I feel comfortable with his hand on the nuke trigger and since he's older than Moses I worry who he'll nominate as a VP - I've heard Guliani (speaking of Brown Shirts), Ralph Reed or even Huckabee. The first brings jack booted thug to a new level and the last two put us one cholesterol clogged artery away from a theocracy and both make it hard for me to distinguish between them and the robed Mullahs of Iran. Obama is imperfect, no doubt but he does a lot more to set this country on a healing path than the other two choices.