Romney is definitely not Tea Party’s choice Re: “Romney is GOP’s best choice,” Editorial, Dec. 15
Mitt Romney may be a neo-con, but he is not a true conservative. Romney is the establishment’s Republican in name only pick to run for president. Romney may also be The Examiner’s choice, but he will not be supported by enough voters to win.
President Obama would beat Romney easily, since real Ronald Reagan Republicans, moderates, conservatives, and Tea Party people will not vote for him. As an ex-Republican, I would happily vote for Obama before I ever support another GOP establishment pick foisted on us. The string of losers they have run ensures that they snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Bob Dole: a liberal. John McCain: How did being a POW qualify him to be decider of strategy? And don’t get me started on the Bushes and what they did to the country. We would have been better off if they had lost.
The only Republican candidate that could have beaten Obama was Herman Cain, but the Democrat destruction machine took him out early. Gingrich has a better chance to beat Obama, but has as much baggage as Romney and is too likely to implode during a long campaign.
The best chance to save the country would be for the GOP to run Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann, or Paul and Rick Santorum because the Tea Party will not support the GOP establishment and their neo-con RINOs any more.
William Adams
Springfield
Two wrongs don’t make it right
Re: “D.C. protest costs far less than crony capitalism,” From Readers, Dec. 15
Two wrongs generally don’t make a right, and that’s certainly the case with John Woodmaska’s letter comparing the taxpayer cost of crony capitalism (corporatism) to that of increased police resources surrounding Occupy DC.
The act of government using taxpayer dollars to pick winners and losers in the marketplace is morally reprehensible, but excusing Occupiers of sucking more than a million dollars in city resources because the crony capitalists do it doesn’t make it any less wrong.
How about we solve both problems? Mayor Gray, stop handing out taxpayer dollars to your friends in the private sector. Occupiers, stop camping (it’s no longer a protest) on taxpayer property. Both acts are a tremendous waste of taxpayer dollars.
Matthew Hurtt
Arlington
Newt’s private life is a public concern
If a high-ranking government official cannot be trusted in his private life, why should we trust him in public office? When John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton were in the White House, their sex-capades debauched the dignity of the office.
The liberal Democrats all told us that a president’s private behavior is his own private business, and not an impeachable offense. This viewpoint is wrong, because the question here is the man’s basic core values and character.
Now we have Newt Gingrich — the Republican version of adulterer Bill Clinton — being hailed by the news media as running neck-and-neck with Mitt Romney. Has America grown so shameless that it puts its stamp of approval upon adultery in those elected to the nation’s highest office?
Lawrence K. Marsh
Gaithersburg
