Pinthouse Pizza
Throwing the Gaunlet by Name-Calling
RECEIVED Tue., June 1, 2004
Dear Editor,
I love your paper for the entertainment, information, and the belly laughs I get when reading the letters you print from the laughable left fringe. Where do you find these deluded people? Gore lost the election because Gore ran a lousy campaign, apparently did not understand the Electoral College, and managed to lose his own home state. (When was the last time, if ever, a major party candidate had the talent to do that?) And I love the bit about a Republican conspiracy to make the butterfly ballot disqualify all those Gore voters (fortuitously ignoring the fact that the ballot was designed and implemented by Democrat-elected officials; now that's a hell of a Republican conspiracy). I even recall recently reading on your pages how farmers vote Republican even though Republican policies are bad for farmers, now this had to be written by someone that probably never set foot on a farm, but by being ultraliberal, they of course know better than those poor stupid fools that actually work on farms. People, you cannot keep making these kinds of arguments and have any credibility. (How about this, just maybe a farmer knows more about what is good for farmers than nonfarmers do – wow, who would have thought.)
While I certainly enjoy good political discourse, it does require some degree of intelligent argument. I would really enjoy reading better thought-out points of view that do not make ludicrous conclusions (like 9/11 would not have happened if Gore had been elected – huh? Radical Muslims hate all of us because we aren't radical Muslims). Come on, you can do it. This upcoming election is going to be a hard fought and close one; we the people desire some intelligent discussion and not pure dogma. Consider the gauntlet thrown.
I love your paper for the entertainment, information, and the belly laughs I get when reading the letters you print from the laughable left fringe. Where do you find these deluded people? Gore lost the election because Gore ran a lousy campaign, apparently did not understand the Electoral College, and managed to lose his own home state. (When was the last time, if ever, a major party candidate had the talent to do that?) And I love the bit about a Republican conspiracy to make the butterfly ballot disqualify all those Gore voters (fortuitously ignoring the fact that the ballot was designed and implemented by Democrat-elected officials; now that's a hell of a Republican conspiracy). I even recall recently reading on your pages how farmers vote Republican even though Republican policies are bad for farmers, now this had to be written by someone that probably never set foot on a farm, but by being ultraliberal, they of course know better than those poor stupid fools that actually work on farms. People, you cannot keep making these kinds of arguments and have any credibility. (How about this, just maybe a farmer knows more about what is good for farmers than nonfarmers do – wow, who would have thought.)
While I certainly enjoy good political discourse, it does require some degree of intelligent argument. I would really enjoy reading better thought-out points of view that do not make ludicrous conclusions (like 9/11 would not have happened if Gore had been elected – huh? Radical Muslims hate all of us because we aren't radical Muslims). Come on, you can do it. This upcoming election is going to be a hard fought and close one; we the people desire some intelligent discussion and not pure dogma. Consider the gauntlet thrown.
Mark Vonderburg