Reader Comments

Editor: Regarding your editorial, “Republican Crack-up?—I think it is time to bolt the Bush/Rove/Kristol party and start a conservative one. I am incensed by the situation in Connecticut and the White House support of Lieberman, their support of Chafee and their terrible treatment of Katherine Harris in Florida. I've had it with these people. DB  

Editor: Your lead article “Republican Crack-up?” is excellent as always—very informative, and the analysis is spot-on. As it happens, we have an article about Schwartz and other Left-leaning types who were defeated in the primaries coming up in the next edition of Environment & Climate News. I think your observations about voter enthusiasm are very enlightening, and your point about the Republicans’ overall slide into Rino status is essential. That is the real problem, and I don’t see how Republicans will be able to undo it before the elections. S.T. Karnick

Editor: Regarding your editorial, “Republican Crack-up?--with a Republican Presidency, a Republican controlled Senate and House, we COULD have seen the best of American life!   Instead, we have the same backward system as we did when Democrat's had Senate, and House control! 1. We are nowhere nearer to a School Voucher system, than we were in 1950! We have the same NEA Union control as we did since the radical 60's, and 70's.  As long as Unions control American education, we will have lower and lower standards. Teachers seek fewer and fewer days of educating, with fewer and fewer hours per day teaching! 2.  Republican's have not pursued lawsuit limitations!  The same amount of Idiot's receive big bucks from American companies, as they did under Bill Clinton. 3.  Illegal Immigration is not only ignored, it is encouraged! It is time that Democrat's take all control!   Republican's could have done the right thing!  G

Editor: I do not agree with “Republican Crack-up”. I think the GOP will make the comeback needed. But we the voting public must believe in it also. We should listen to the naysayers with a listening ear, but not to panic. I am getting a bit tired of naysayers just being that. Why not start looking at the positives and talk about them. Stop it already. I am unhappy with the spending and the immigration issues but they are being tackled. Did you ever think that we of the conservative party are always screaming, smaller government and when given the chance to allow the states to handle the immigration problems we scream for the Feds to handle them. You think maybe, just maybe when we are given lemons we could make lemonade instead of joining the whiners. Sincerely, Laura

Editor: I am a Republican voter (since the beginning) but the amnesty mess that Bush is offering to the illegals will cost the Republican Party this election.  Just as in 1990, you don't have to vote for a Democrat, all you have to do is NOT vote at all.  Bush is gambling the party's weak majority on this amnesty garbage.  How does he think this country can absorb 20 million illegals every year and survive as a strong nation, considering the economic drain they have brought to every state which is absorbing the supposed 20 million already here? Bush can only blame himself for this chaos, he, himself, created. Now the Republican voter knows, even if the Republicans do keep the House and Senate, they will ramrod this down our throats after the elections are over.  If they lose, the Democrats will hasten the plan even quicker.  Either way, American tax payers and former Republicans have LOST.  I fear we are losing our America as I have known it to be for 68 years.  We are no longer the same.  Will we continue to survive?  How can we, with such poor, weak, leadership? Joyce M. Cascio, Houston, Tx

Editor: Regarding your editorial, I could be wrong, but since the polls are national in scope, and if 80% of the blue state people polled are against the president (aided by the media in those blue states), it doesn't mean that a majority of the people in the red states that are still supportive of the War on Terror and the President's conservative agenda will turn out and vote in a Democrat. When it comes down to voting in the election, an enthusiastic vote for the values that the Republican Party represents could still maintain Republican control of Congress. John and Joan Fittz

Editor: If there was a legit 3rd party I’m sure most people would vote for them. Personally I am fed up with the immaturity of the 2 parties we have.--especially the Democrats. Gary Goldsmith

Editor: Your article “Republican Crack-up?” has merit on most of the issues you discuss.  I too am very dissatisfied with how the Republicans have failed to live up to their mantra of limited government, lowering taxes, and strong national security. Unfortunately, the problem is the general public is uneducated and ignorant of most issues and due to their ignorance will vote for a change i.e. a Democrat just because of not really knowing the issues.  I try to stay informed of the issues but it is very difficult if you do not subscribe to the conservative publications because you are not going to get an honest news story from the mainstream media. But I don't see much hope for cooperation in the future if the other party is successful in winning and taking control. The unfortunate thing is my vote for Republican candidates in 2006 will be more for a vote against the Democrats than my support for the Republicans.  My vote will be a protest vote against the Dems more so than anything else. John Bilodeau, Morrison, CO

Editor: Regarding “Republican Crack-up?” what do you suggest the Republicans do?  A Democratic majority will lead to the impeachment of President Bush to get even for Clinton. Honor and Integrity seem to be lacking everywhere. John Harris

Editor: As a life long Republican, I am pi--ed at my party. What a bunch of spineless yellow belly… We hold the House, the Senate and the president, but we can not pass diddle. Why? How, can a minority take control of everything?   What good is winning on election day?  The Liberals ran Tom Delay out of Texas.  They even ran him out of office, with no proof of wrong doing.  I have to wonder if my party is afraid of the Democrats.  They sure act like it. What will my party do when the left takes over?   I guess they just hang out at Winchells donuts, or they may have to ask if they can enter the chamber. Gil Smith, Polk City, FL

Editor: I foresee a disaster for America if the Democrats win in 2006 and 2008.  Lamont's grandfather Thomas was a sugar daddy for the Communist Party USA and Corliss Lamont a son of Thomas did business with Stalin's Russia making a lot of   money for the family and he was an atheist. Financially, I don't have the pull I used to have as I was badly hurt during Jimmy Carter's Presidency. I miss Barry Goldwater, my Dad, and Ronald Reagan. I don't want Hillary to be President and I don't want traitor Bill Clinton to be Secretary General of the  United  Nations. BGen Peter F. Steele, USMC [ret]

Editor: The main problem in the crack-up is Bush.  The President has shown a lack of leadership not seen since the days of Jimmy Carter. As leader of his party he has failed to use the veto and the power of his office to keep the Republican profligate spending in line. The expenditures for Katrina as outlined in the WSJ yesterday are beyond obscene and yet he is promising more. His solution to every problem is to throw money at it. Yes he did pick two Supreme Court Judges but his choice of H. Myers shows that he has a disconnect with a core belief in conservative principles. If it was not for an angry outcry from the conservatives she'd be sitting on the court today. As far as National Security, the supposed Republican strong point, it is time for the President to re-evaluate the strategy he has clung to in Iraq. We are spending our treasury and blood there and still fail to control key areas.  The enemy is adapting quicker and more effectively than we are. It is time for us to think outside the box and change the paradigm. The only hope the Republican's and the country has is for the conservative base to hold their noses and vote to keep the status quo and aggressively get   new conservative candidates to replace the blow-dried, hair-helmeted,   aristocracy who presently inhabit the Versailles on the Potomac. Sincerely, Charles E. Umhey Jr., MD, Turah MT

Editor: Here's a flash from an independent voter who has never knowingly voted for a Democrat in his life.  Normally I would continue to vote straight Republican but Bush 2 has absolutely changed my mind. I live in extreme southern California a few miles from the US-Mexico border, an open conduit for any illegal who wished to invade MY country.  Bush continues to speechify about his alleged war on terror while our southern border is wide open. Bush not only does nothing about it but seems angry about those of us who wish to. There is no Republican push from Congress to secure the border so it's a certainty that nothing will ever  be  done. Too bad, but that's just how it is.  I now put Republicans in the same professional liar and do-nothing category as nearly all Democrats. From now on I'll vote third party or perhaps just stay home on election day. And believe me, I'm not alone in this opinion. Mark Daniloff, El Centro, CA

Editor: Good “Kiss and Accuse” article by Corey Roberts on the false claims that women can make against men and destroy them in many different ways. It is also a sad fact that in too many divorces men wind up getting accused of child molestation of their children.  It also requires no proof.  And even if the charges are found to be false, in many states men are still not allowed to ever be alone with their kids.  The mothers who make these false claims of course never get tried for perjury and usually wind up getting outrageous child support. In Texas, domestic violence also results in the loss of several rights as it is considered a felony.  All a woman has to do is provoke a man to touch or shove her and he is a felon from then on.  It seems that the rights of women have completely taken many of the rights of men, the right to the presumption of innocence being only one of them.  Most men are guilty only because they are men.  Since when did we change the constitution, stripping away rights because we have the misfortune to be born male?  I suppose the next step is to abort all male fetuses, which will finish the job by taking away the right to life for us unfortunate enough to be conceived with the male chromosome. Bud Hensley

Editor: We need more people like Daniel Pipes to speak the truth!  May God bless him for “Jihad in Seattle” and keep him safe while he speaks out against the hypocrisies and injustices of Islam, and try to educate the brainwashed, sheepish people of America who have become that way thanks to Liberals in our media and schools.  I have read that Muslim mothers no longer have any say of discipline or moral upbringing of their children after the age of five or six, and that the fathers take over from there.  With the risk of sounding superior to men, ( I do not believe that we are, I believe that we compliment one another and need each other), could this be part of the problem of the lack of morality towards human life, lack of respect that Muslim men have towards women, etc. from their societal and cultural upbringing, etc? I am not saying that Western societies are perfect either since we do have our own morality issues going on today.  We also have some work to do, which brings me to my point. We Western women have the power to bring about change towards improving morality in our society, by starting with ourselves and then teaching our children about morality. But then, maybe I just sound naive, since after all, it seems virtually impossible for this turnaround to occur because of Islam rules and law.  There would have to be a major reform within their religion and culture, and I don't think that their men would want to give up that control and power they have over women. Kelly

Editor: Thanks to all at ACU for continuing to speak Truth.  Super article by Dennis Avery on what's Really Happening with "global warming".  Now if only extremist environmentalists and nitwit politicians were listening. But nevertheless, please don't quit.  And I'm relieved to know I don't have to put on my hip waders yet. Ol Al had me worried for awhile...after all, a 20 ft rise in sea levels would have made quite an impact here in Portland with the Columbia river and all.  Thanks for setting my mind at ease. Tim Feaver, Portland OR