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McCain begs to lose

To the editor -- Re: McCain/Palin or what I like to think of as the "Beauty and the Beast."

With Joe Biden, Barack Obama made sure he had a running mate easily qualified to be president himself. John McCain's May-December ticket smacks of political desperation. Given McCain's health issues, I find it hard to believe that a two-year, small state governor is the best person for the job.

So now Republicans have a dilemma: If Sarah Palin actually does get the nomination for vice president, that irresponsible decision by McCain almost certainly guarantees a loss in November. Or, if Palin is replaced during the Republican convention, that huge embarrassment for McCain also makes for a likely defeat.

Is John McCain even trying to win?

 

DAN SCHAPIRO

Yakima

 

Judgment shows

To the editor -- Wow! Sarah Palin for John McCain's vice president!

Well, I suppose there were lots of good reasons to choose the former mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.

But if he wanted a woman, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius or Texas U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison are two who are more likely to have the chops to step into the presidency if, God forbid, anything should happen to McCain.

Or, if he really wanted to energize evangelicals, James Dobson or Rick Warren might have been more exciting picks for the spot a heartbeat away from the presidency.

Or, if he wanted to enhance the element of surprise by picking a former small-town mayor for the job, why not Yakima's Norm Johnson? He is a perennial winner.

This pick says a lot about McCain's judgment and brings to the ticket something that John McCain has spent an entire career avoiding: political expedience.

 

JIM FLINT

Zillah

 

All choices open

To the editor -- There is much discussion about Sarah Palin, an anti-choice candidate, choosing to carry her pregnancy to term and having a baby with Down's Syndrome rather than abort him. Thank goodness she had the choice.

No law forbade her to have this child.

No judge ruled that she should not carry to term.

No husband or parent overruled her decision.

No doctor refused her medical care unless she aborted.

No pharmacist refused to sell her medications because he or she thought Palin should abort.

She knew that she had the resources and ability to raise her child. She knew her family would support her and the child. She knew that she could return to work and that her child would be well cared for while she was there. She knew that the schools he would attend would provide appropriate special education services for his needs. She knew she could afford appropriate medical care for him. And she knew that this child would be a welcome and enjoyed member of the family.

Thank goodness she had the choice.

 

PAT MORAN

Yakima

 

Most of Americans

To the editor -- Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Barack Obama did well at representing the Democratic positions.

The theme in common that I found disturbing is their view of the United States. The three people Clinton picked from her campaign were each in dire straits and needed some help. Biden lamented that each night on his train ride home, he imagined the sad discussions at the kitchen table at each house the train passed, conversations filled with tales of lost jobs and lack of health insurance.

I would like to hear one of them talk about the 94 percent of Americans who are employed; the approximately 50 percent of Americans who own their homes; the approximately 90 percent of us homeowners who are making our mortgage payments on time and who obtained mortgages we could afford and had terms we understood and agreed to. How about all those mothers and fathers who go to work each morning (or night), earn a living and pay their bills, as our parents and grandparents did?

The Democrats like to be viewed as compassionate, but to do that, all the rest of us have to be victims of something and, apparently, the answer is more and bigger government intervention.

 

DICK MAISON

Yakima

 

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