Letters to the Editor
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Half truths
Santorum got some of his history right. A minor footnote, my relatives were Italian Catholic immigrants and always voted Republican. Now when did the Dem party embrace the ideas of the 60s? On social issues, the only liberal presidents we've had since Roosevelt, were Kennedy and Johnson, whose embracing of the black civil rights struggle ended Democratic domination in the South. Now as far as war and peace issues, no democrat has been on the peace side, not Roosevelt or Kennedy or Johnson.
Bill Bennett, whose politics I despise, made an intelligent comment on CNN. The liberal Democrats bit the bullet in 92 and elected Clinton who was more a centerist because that is where the country was heading. Now Santorum, Huckabee and the rest of the right wing cannot accept McCain because he is slightly to the left of G W Bush. That is one reason we will have a Democrat in the White House next year, well, unless Bush pulls some trick to cancel the election.