Comments on: An Open Letter to Conservatives

By: Ed Quebe

Ed Quebe — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 00:56:53 +0000

They vote no on every single jobs bill. Then complain about the President is not producing jobs Say the wildest lies, and the uneducated believe and pass the untruth forward. I have come to the conclusion they are just not smart enough to understand the issues..

By: Lee Mattocks

Lee Mattocks — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 05:04:05 +0000

The size of Government has grown with size of our Society. It has been corrupt in excepting money for civil service. Call it what you want but MONEY&GREED is what is wrong in our world. Look at France. Don’t forget Greece. Look at London. Common people who planned these protests after they found their retirement plans were getting cut, later retirement age, to name a few plus lower wages and higher taxes, sound familiar? New World Order is at our Doorstep. We just let them walk right in. Citizens United was the Instrument and the five stooges with nothing but Corporate Money on their minds and in their Banks-offshore, sitting on a bench until they die or step down!! This country is so wound up in Dancing with the Stars, the Princess Puppeteers of the T-Party for the GOP and their own angry survival they are asleep at the wheel and we will be the Trojan Horse of Greece!

By: Ray Smith

Ray Smith — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:34:32 +0000

This letter takes comments from a variety of sources. No one person believes in all this like you imply. I don’t like the democrats at all because of their desire to increase the size of government and interfere with my individual freedoms. I don’t like the republicans because they had a chance to stop the spending and reduce the debt, but chose to fight in two unconstitutional wars – wasting lives and dollars. I don’t like the Patriot Act because it violates the constitution and our right to privacy. I don’t like any party that wants to increase entitlement spending. 53% of us support the other 47%. I am a Libertarian so I guess your letter doesn’t apply to me.

By: David Roy

David Roy — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:27:27 +0000

I find it incredulous and appalling that intelligent and educated people would so willfully and skillfully proffer such egregious distortions and outright lies. Where is the morality in that? Are they so frightened or so callous that the end justifies such corrupt (and corrupting) means? I cannot imagine that any of these people would tolerate this same approach in their homes or in their workplace.

But more frustrating and frightening to me is the uncritical acceptance of these blatant distortions and lies by so many people. If these people did not listen and respond enthusiastically, these ugly voices would fade away. Critical thinking is lacking.

Finally, I am furious that our elected so-called “leaders,” especially among the Democrats currently in power on the national stage, so easily cave to these nonsensical positions. Their fear and retreats only emboldens these fanatics. I want to say to these purported leaders, “Grow up! Be the powerful person you can be and force these manipulative fear mongers to back down.”

By: Paul Major

Paul Major — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:46:03 +0000

I could have written this – it explains why I am no longer a Republican. My Grandmother was Secretary of the Mayflower, a suffragette, and a Republican. I had two ancestors in the REAL teaparty (1774). I did not leave the party, the party left me.

By: Lynn Marie Sager

Lynn Marie Sager — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 22:28:48 +0000

@ Diane…here is my theory, and it is not just mine.

“For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived, and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought”.

John F. Kennedy, Address to Yale graduates, 1962

By: Web Dunce

Web Dunce — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 17:31:39 +0000

Unfortunately, they can and they are doing all of these things and will still likely take the House and possibly the Senate in a few weeks. Their plan of nonsense has paid off brilliantly. And all the people who vote these cretins into office deserve every last one of them. All of the people who stay home on election day because they aren’t “enthused” deserve every last one of them. When our leadership takes us to the brink of ruin and socially back to the 19th century the power will still be securely in the hands of incompetent fear mongers. America’s golden age is over. Intellectual and political laziness on behalf of the populace is our doom. Oh, ye citizens of Rome.

By: Diane R. Borger

Diane R. Borger — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:55:06 +0000

I cannot get my conservative acquantances to respond with facts to any questions I may ask them…How do we reach such people, so set in stone? How do we inspire them to read, ponder, think?!!

By: Cynthai Sppley

Cynthai Sppley — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:52:56 +0000

Who is looking out got America and Americans?

By: Brennan

Brennan — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 06:06:15 +0000

You ROCK! Thanks for the article!

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 03:11:27 +0000

This absolutely rocks. Thank you.

By: Penny Ireland

Penny Ireland — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 03:09:01 +0000

Stop lies, half truths and distortions! Don’t split hairs and play games with disinformation. No more divisiveness and hate. And stop selling your souls and our country to the commercial devil with the most money and biggest kickbacks. Enough. Basta! No more!