EMAIL OF THE DAY IV

“The e-mails you have posted recently validate so many of your beliefs about this election year. If you cut Kerry some slack, you’re told he’s just acting. He’ll swoop into office, hand the keys to Chirac, beg the UN to forgive us, invite al Qaeda to Camp David, pull out the troops and start cutting defense spending, because, hey, it’s what he did before in the Senate and he can’t possibly change approaches to suit the times. No Democrat can ever do that! They are always soft on defense, always raise taxes, always increase entitlements, blah blah blah.
If you cut Bush some slack, from your very defensible position that someone like him was needed in the last 3 years, but wonder now if his tunnel-vision, take-no-prisoners, arrogant style is well-suited to the next 4 years, you are abandoning our pet pit bull just when we need someone with true convictions. Again, blah blah blah.
There’s a whole bunch of us out here who don’t think all Dems by virtue of party affiliation are hopelessly unprepared to fight battles, and who also think Republicans can and should be more than jingoistic he-men. Sadly, the country has mostly already decided they like or hate the somewhat ditzy but dedicated kick-ass. If Kerry can act the kick-ass (and acting is all it is, folks – don’t fool yourselves on either side) enough to convince some Republicans that he’ll continue to pound the crap out of terrorists, he’s in. All Bush can hold onto with his party loyalists is the war and hating gays … what else has he done that’ll warm a Republican’s heart?” – more feedback on the Letters Page.