Reader Comments
Issue 120 - November 19, 2008

Editor: Regarding Governor Mark Sanford’s “No More Bailouts,” where has this guy been? We need him to run for President!! Kathy Cunningham, San Angelo, Texas

Editor: Read your piece “Who Plays Herbert Hoover” this morning about how the Depression got hung on the Republicans and why we have paid the price for that ever since. You are one of the few writers who comes to these issues from a unique and informed viewpoint that is not the usual stuff. The pendulum has swung and the Reagan Era is over. I suspect Americans will want the Obama era to be over with as quickly as possible as things go south here for the next few years. Regards, Alan Caruba

Editor: Regarding “Who Plays Herbert Hoover,” our return has just begun!! Let's just keep our heads clear and our eye on the goal. We have much to do and if you believe in a Higher Power..........much to pray about also. We are not down. Keep on keeping on. GOD bless you. Patricia Maura Gibbons, Sarasota, Florida

Editor: Regarding “Who Plays Herbert Hoover,” do you know we have an opportunity to go on offense--right now, immediately? Barack Obama won by 7 million votes or so (well subtract about a million for voter fraud) and he won huge in the Electoral College. I would say that definitively ends the idea of America being a racist country, and as such, the U.S. Congress and all 50 States should take immediate action to remove ALL laws regarding preference in government contracts, affirmative action etc. etc.? If we make that our number one priority - the complete and total removal of Affirmative Action, it will put the Democrats on a very hard position, trying to justify "why" we still need Affirmative Action when an African-American can be elected President of the U.S. Spending time and resources to defend that policy will also derail the first 100 days of their socialist agenda. I think it only works if it gets momentum immediately and it only works if we get those 45 U.S. Senators of ours on board. This may well be a rare opportunity to get rid of a long standing asinine program. Best Regards, Michael Sibert, Chariton, IA

Editor: Regarding “Who Plays Herbert Hoover,” what’s next? I enjoy reading all the articles at AUCF. My question is how are we going to grow our side? We need to pull together and start attacking the State and Local Governments, as well as the House and the Senate. When will we find our next leader? I feel if we don't start now, we will lose again in 2012 as well as the next Congressional election. IMO I think everyone needs to pull together and help each other out, no matter what State you are from. Even if it's only a small donation to the candidates’ campaigns. Patrick Budowski

Editor: Regarding “Who Plays Herbert Hoover,” the American people let us Vets down big time. You let this election slip away and now we must pay for your mistakes for 4 years. We will more than likely lose our right to own a gun and we will be pressed into Socialism or worse. Thanks folks for all you have done. Please don't do us any more favors. I don't know how we would thank you! What indigent person do I send my retirement money to? You know the ones that sit and do nothing their whole life. The ones with their hands in my pockets. Walter E. Klinka, a Korean Vet

Editor: Regarding “Who Plays Herbert Hoover,” those who are conservatives and believe in the ideals of Goldwater and Reagan need to start recruiting and teaching the new generation. For those of you who were not around when we took back the Republican Party from the moderates in 1964: Barry Goldwater snippets from his acceptance speech:

Now, my fellow Americans, the tide has been running against freedom. Our people have followed false prophets. We must, and we shall, return to proven ways-- not because they are old, but because they are true.

We must, and we shall, set the tide running again in the cause of freedom. And this party, with its every action, every word, every breath, and every heartbeat, has but a single resolve, and that is freedom.

Freedom made orderly for this nation by our constitutional government.

Freedom under a government limited by laws of nature and of nature's God. Freedom balanced so that liberty lacking order will not become the slavery of the prison cell; balanced so that liberty lacking order will not become the license of the mob and of the jungle.

But, ladies and gentlemen, first we must renew freedom's mission in our own hearts and in our own homes.

Those who seek to live your lives for you, to take your liberty in return for relieving you of yours, those who elevate the state and downgrade the citizen, must see ultimately a world in which earthly power can be substituted for divine will. And this nation was founded upon the rejection of that notion and upon the acceptance of God as the author of freedom.

It is further the cause of Republicanism to remind ourselves, and the world, that only the strong can remain free: that only the strong can keep the peace.

Thus do we seek inventiveness, diversity, and creative difference within a stable order, for we Republicans define government's role where needed at many, many levels-- preferably, though, the one closest to the people involved: our towns and our cities, then our counties, then our states, then our regional contacts, and only then the national government.

That, let me remind you, is the land of liberty built by decentralized power. On it also we must have balance between the branches of government at every level.

The beauty of the very system we Republicans are pledged to restore and revitalize, the beauty of this federal system of ours, is in its reconciliation of diversity with unity. We must not see malice in honest differences of opinion, and no matter how great, so long as they are not inconsistent with the pledges we have given to each other in and through our Constitution.

Our Republican cause is not to level out the world or make its people conform in computer-regimented sameness. Our Republican cause is to free our people and light the way for liberty throughout the world. Ours is a very human cause for very humane goals. This party, its good people, and its unquestionable devotion to freedom will not fulfill the purposes of this campaign which we launch here now until our cause has won the day, inspired the world, and shown the way to a tomorrow worthy of all our yesteryears.

Please read the above and visit the web site and listen to the speech here. Bill Boltinghouse, Council Bluffs, Iowa

Editor: You people are nuts in “Who Plays Herbert Hoover”! Impeach George Bush and Dick Cheney for undermining democracy in America and by socializing our economy. They are the enemy of the conservatives of America. Keith L. Morgan

Editor: “Who Plays Herbert Hoover,” is misplaced. It is not about who plays Hoover but Hitler or Uncle Joe Stalin, and who will be his Himmler? That I believe is much more on point or did you miss the speech where Barack Obama called for a new SA to be called a National Security Force reporting to him directly? Bill Ford

Editor: Regarding “Who Plays Herbert Hoover,” the tragedy of George Bush is his mixed-up, confused "compassionate conservative" philosophy, that has made him vulnerable to criticism from left, right and e v e r y b o d y. Gary Bauer tried to warn us in the '99 Presidential race that conservatism... is...compassionate. I wasn't sure then but I see now it's the most compassionate system known to man, incorporating free market VOLUNTARY EXCHANGE of goods & services, which amounts to .....random chance.. that rewards without prejudice. Otherwise you're stuck with a socialist system of prejudiced people who decide what "social justice " means & the meaning of "fair" & the meaning of "is" & the meaning of "global warming" & "obesity", the solution to traffic congestion; where the bottom line always degenerates into "how can we best hold onto power for ourselves". Socialism works for the bureaucrats whereas conservatism empowers the people...while the New York Times tells us the opposite. Is it any wonder we elected a socialist when it's their policies that created our crises? What keeps socialism rolling is that it takes long enough for the damage to occur so that people have forgotten the original source of the problem. Al, Lemon Grove

Editor: Regarding “Who Plays Herbert Hoover,” please do not use the term "Republican" as a synonym for "Conservative"! It is NOT! It is long past the time to form (or take over) a real Conservative political party! We the People need a "home" party, not one we are only tolerated in at election time. "If the [Republican] party "were a dog food, they would take us off the shelf." [Rep. Tom Davis] Agreed! Let us separate our Conservative cause from a failed brand and a failed leadership! It is a waste of our resources to continue to do CPR on Humpty Dumpty. Joseph Klein, Santa Barbara, CA, Castle Hulls, Texas

Editor: Regarding Alan Caruba’s “States Pass Warming Taxes” these videos show a few examples of what is really wrong with the atmosphere.. How dare they blame everything on us and even make up things to blame on us? The people who go to work everyday are the ones that pay twice for everything. First we pay to heat and cool our own homes, then we have to give to the lazy people (family included) and pay to heat their homes after we have also bought their groceries. Then we have to buy gas tax, road tax, car inspection, car tags and property tax on top of the taxes that are stolen out of every paycheck before we get it. Thanks for telling the TRUTH! OUTSOURCE CONGRESS. An angry Woman! D Caldwell

Editor: I agree with Elaine Coyle’s letter in response to Daniel Pipes’ “Counting Islamists” that it's difficult to estimate the number of radical terrorists but that the number who exhibit radical behavior is much higher. Roy S Gillinson

Editor: Regarding Paul Weyrich’s “Joe Plummer Politics,” no one cared about how much Senators Dodd and Obama received from Fannie; no one cared about Barney Frank and the garbage in the basement of his house, no one cared......but they cared when Trent Lott said something silly at a birthday party, and look what they did to Tom Delay. Joe the Plummer is the one with my values and good old fashioned "horse sense". Let's elect him in 4 years. Patricia Kessinger