Real conservatives don’t have a good candidate Re: “Conservatives should think twice about Newt, Part II,” Editorial, Dec. 18 The Washington Examiner’s series on why conservatives should not vote for Newt Gingrich displays your assumption that his support is coming from the more conservative-minded part of the Republican Party. But most of us who vote on conservative principles, both social and economic, don’t have a good candidate before us. Maybe I’ll write in Joe Arpaio again this year.
We have five flawed individuals running for the nomination, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. It is up to each of us free-thinking and hopefully well-informed individuals to weigh the pluses and minuses and vote for the best option available.
For my part, Mitt Romney reminds me too much of Max Headroom, complete with a constant fake smile and false, forced intensity in every phrase. No trust = no vote.
Given your endorsement, a clear vetting of Mitt Romney will likely never be printed. The good thing is that your bias is now clearly printed on your own pages, so I can ignore all future primary campaign “reporting” from The Examiner. Does the Romney campaign have to claim all the free coverage you’re giving him as an in-kind contribution?
Steve Beller
Woodbridge
President Obama cut out early from Army-Navy game
As a Navy widow, I have more than a passing interest each year in the Army-Navy football game. So I was a bit surprised by this headline on the Washington Redskins website: “President Obama attends Army-Navy game at FedEx Field.”
A more accurate title would be: “Obama cuts out early from Army-Navy game”.
It was just shocking to me. Even the sportscasters were stunned when the president and his entourage left with such fanfare during the third quarter with the score tied, waving and smiling as he exited. “Maybe he has to get home for dinner,” one commented.
It seemed to be lost on the president that it was an odd moment for the commander in chief to leave an exciting game, as if he was bored or not even paying attention.
Katie Holland
Silver Spring
Administration’s biggest mistake: listening to Corzine
As governor of New Jersey, Jon Corzine left his state in debt and nearly bankrupt. Before that, he served as a U.S. senator with a well- earned reputation as a tax-and-spend liberal, consistently receiving failing grades from the National Taxpayers Union.
When New Jersey voters mercifully ended Corzine’s political career, the former Goldman Sachs chairman took the top job at MF Global, where he is accused of driving the company into bankruptcy and losing nearly $1 billion of investor money that remains unaccounted for to this day. The irony is that Corzine co-authored the Sarbanes-Oxely Act, which presumably protects investor savings.
Over the years Vice President Joe Biden has had effusive praise for Corzine, calling him the first person the administration turned to for economic advice. President Obama said Corzine helped develop his national recovery plan.
With unemployment stubbornly high and food stamp recipients at record levels, Obama claims that his administration did not fully understand the depth of the problem he inherited from President Bush. However, a better explanation for our economic mess is that the Obama administration listened to Jon Corzine.
Thomas M. Beattie
Mt. Vernon
