As a Republican, I found Ron Reagan’s review of the Bush Administration’s surreptitious, conniving, self-righteous, and fascist behavior to be precise and accurate but more tepid than it should have been, by all rights. The cloaking, in religious metaphor, behavior is truly antichrist as it succeeds in deceiving even the elect. This Administration is the most un-Christian, unspiritual, unGodly which we have seen since Nixon. The precedents of vindictive, savage, and predatory behavior engaged in by the Republican spinsters, Republican camp followers, and Republican elected officials has created a political environment like that created by Sen. Joseph Mcarthy in the 50s, one of fear, anger, hostility, retribution, and cynicism. This behavior is both un-American, as Mrs. Kerry correctly pointed out, and destructive. It is absolutely no wonder that America is now the focus of so much hatred from abroad...and we richly deserve it because of who we have allowed to continue in positions of important decision making, our politicians. These peddlers in war have snagged the American people, a generous, loving, forgiving, tolerant people...the most so of all people’s in the world...into a quagmire from which we will never be able to extricate ourselves gracefully with our former reputation intact.
The real problem is that the Republican Party, of which I once counted myself a member, has really become the Puritan Party. Puritans are forever sticking their noses into matters which should not concern them(people’s private lives), forever forcing others to live only according to their rules, forever stigmatizing those who won’t go along as perfidious traitors, forever seeking out the prophets and killing them (yes, Christ was killed by religious conservatives, ie., Puritans), and setting themselves up as the only judges of what is good and right. Another Republican victory this fall will be license for the Puritans to finish the job they started and America will be in the Dark Ages again. That is heaven, as far as Puritans are concerned.
Mr. Reagan is to be praised for his candor and constraint in his attempts to strip away the veneer of civility (what a joke) and the veil of Compassionate Conservativism that these "Serpents and Vipers" claim as they systematically eliminate everything great for which America has stood in the past.
And where, may I ask, has the "liberal" media been during all this? Maybe the media is now owned and operated by the Puritans? Maybe that is why they have been so silent during the last four years? The news media have failed in their responsibilities. They can no longer be trusted to act as advocates for the Truth. Shame on them!!!!!!!!!
As a Republican, I found Ron Reagan’s review of the Bush Administration’s surreptitious, conniving, self-righteous, and fascist behavior to be precise and accurate but more tepid than it should have been, by all rights. The cloaking, in religious metaphor, behavior is truly antichrist as it succeeds in deceiving even the elect. This Administration is the most un-Christian, unspiritual, unGodly which we have seen since Nixon. The precedents of vindictive, savage, and predatory behavior engaged in by the Republican spinsters, Republican camp followers, and Republican elected officials has created a political environment like that created by Sen. Joseph Mcarthy in the 50s, one of fear, anger, hostility, retribution, and cynicism. This behavior is both un-American, as Mrs. Kerry correctly pointed out, and destructive. It is absolutely no wonder that America is now the focus of so much hatred from abroad...and we richly deserve it because of who we have allowed to continue in positions of important decision making, our politicians. These peddlers in war have snagged the American people, a generous, loving, forgiving, tolerant people...the most so of all people’s in the world...into a quagmire from which we will never be able to extricate ourselves gracefully with our former reputation intact.
The real problem is that the Republican Party, of which I once counted myself a member, has really become the Puritan Party. Puritans are forever sticking their noses into matters which should not concern them(people’s private lives), forever forcing others to live only according to their rules, forever stigmatizing those who won’t go along as perfidious traitors, forever seeking out the prophets and killing them (yes, Christ was killed by religious conservatives, ie., Puritans), and setting themselves up as the only judges of what is good and right. Another Republican victory this fall will be license for the Puritans to finish the job they started and America will be in the Dark Ages again. That is heaven, as far as Puritans are concerned.
Mr. Reagan is to be praised for his candor and constraint in his attempts to strip away the veneer of civility (what a joke) and the veil of Compassionate Conservativism that these "Serpents and Vipers" claim as they systematically eliminate everything great for which America has stood in the past.
And where, may I ask, has the "liberal" media been during all this? Maybe the media is now owned and operated by the Puritans? Maybe that is why they have been so silent during the last four years? The news media have failed in their responsibilities. They can no longer be trusted to act as advocates for the Truth. Shame on them!!!!!!!!!
Keith Hill,
Manchester, MI