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Who’s in charge?

    Phil McDonald Sr.

    Dover

Don’t be fooled by Newt Gingrich

    It seems here inDelaware, where the Republicans screwed up with the O’Donnell Senate nomination, they now are attempting to screw up the Republican nomination for president. I’m beginning to wonder if we really have Democrats posing as Republicans in office. Obviously, the Demos are loving this mess you Republicans are attempting to make. Mr. Gingrich left office not on a favorable note and seems to be trying to suck the sap or spine out of our Republican base here for no other reason than self-interest. Remember what happened with O’Donnell! Do we want the same to happen on a national level with four more years of Obama? We should remember these Republicans when they come up for re-election. Vote for Romney, our very best choice to win. Please come out and vote. Your vote is more important than you might think.

    Eck Erb

    Milton

Back to the future

    It is campaign time again. We, the general public, will have to decide which statements are the most honest and which are just boldfaced lies. I don’t know if we can still use that term, “lies,” because most political journalists never call a lie a lie. They use some other metaphor for even the most blatant untruthful or exaggerated comments.

    My suggestion is that you shouldn’t believe most of what you hear. Where there is a record of accomplishment or proven behavior, you are safe. Beyond that, who knows?

    For example, recently, candidate Romney said, “Barack Obama did not cause the recession.” He went on to say what Mr. Romney felt were President Obama’s errors in handling the recovery. Now, there, we have a proven record about which we can make a decision. But first, I would ask, if President Obama did not cause the recession, who or what policy contributed to the problem?

    The answer, of course, is an administration whose policies of minimal regulation of the banking industry, coupled with generous tax cuts for the wealthiest among us, were the major factor in the recession. Are we going to go back to thatAmericathat was so flawed and poorly regulated and have another financial disaster? If we do not learn from our mistakes, we are doomed to repeat them. Candidate Romney and the extremists in his party would like you to believe that what I say are the real issues that got us in this mess — are not. I am making excuses and blaming! They are setting us up for more of the freewheeling in the banking world that we had in the last decade. Continue the tax cuts of the Bush era; let the wealthy keep more because it will trickle down to the working folks. And unemployment soared. It didn’t work then and it raised the deficit; does it make any sense to try it again?

    Now, look at the record. The last four years have seen a turnaround. That’s because of brave and controversial steps President Obama has taken. Some economists and “would-be” experts still argue that they would have done things differently. However, the facts are, the economy has stopped failing and unemployment has come down; things are getting better. The president’s team was right, and when the decisions had to be made quickly, he boldly acted, and we are better off because he did.

    Peter Couming

    Camden

Editorial submission

    Why do liberal socialists have to be that way? I suppose that the psychologists are correct in explaining they’re hard-wired into their seeing themselves as enlightened while viewing all others as being misguided.

    Phil McDonald Sr. seems to have made an art form of that mindset. He’s quick to cherry-pick some issue so that he can slander a conservative. Then, he’ll quickly run away like a playground bully and hide behind statements like “Please, Republicans, don’t respond with ‘Well, so-and-so did this or that.’” [“Who’s in charge?” Letters to the Editor, April 29] (At least, he admits that his socialist screed has as many, if not more, just as culpable.) He’ll pontificate that he’s not a Communist or a Socialist and object to having their mantra assigned to his values, but in the same breath, he’ll tell conservatives that they’re “super-religious, patriotic, my-way-or-the-highway, send-your-neighbors’-kids to war Americans.” [ibid.]

    This is the mentality of the shell that was once the Democratic Party – a party who were in control in America’s most deadly wars, who under FDR championed socialism as it core, whose Jimmy Carter (a most devout Christian, by his own account) gave away our sovereignty and whose Obama has already whispered his willingness to complete the effort if he’s re-elected.

    It would be easy to dismiss Mr. McDonald’s words as clownish and hilarious, if it weren’t for his continued devotion to anything that would turn us into what the USSR once was. It’s no joke that his constant diatribe is simply more Marxist propaganda intended to bend the minds of the weak to accept his admiration of the current corrupt regime that has held Washington in a stranglehold for the last six years. Mr. McDonald is just one of the thousands of Pied Pipers who’ve forgone ridding us of the rats and are intent on trying to turn us into government servants. Most alarming is that those who parrot his seditious leanings continue to hide behind that “Don’t you dare tell me I’m wrong” mentality, and in this politically correct world, it seems they’re getting away with it.

    George Roof

    Magnolia