To the editor:
I write in response to the preposterous letter (Feb.7 edition) by Colin James Nally, wherein he attempts to lecture the Republican Party on what he calls “the error of its ways.”
After the (tragic, and very close) results of the elections, no thinking person in the Republican Party was “baffled” by its outcome. Polls have always indicated historically that voters who support the Democrat Party are less educated and often poorly informed.
Many who supported Obama are “one-issue” voters, like members of corrupt national and local unions who vote as they are told; members of special interest groups, like the ‘pro-death’ camp; folks who voted purely on race; voters baited into hating “the rich;” those against God and religion, and folks who have bought into ridiculous propaganda, such as “global warming.”
Next, there are the growing number of people cast adrift in Obama’s miserable economy, who voted simply to protect their new federal benefits, which discourage them from work, achievement and any measure of success in life — financially or otherwise. Add to those the folks who fell for Obama’s rubbish about “helping the middle class.” The list goes on.
Consider also, that the vast portion of our voters get their news from “social media,” and an overwhelmingly left-loyal broadcast and print media (like this newspaper) that has stripped off the last vestige of being “unbiased” with all the artfulness of a low-rent pole dancer.
What is puzzling is the overwhelming support by our Latino population for Obama. The Hispanic people I know are hard working and industrious, and believe in getting ahead by reaping the fruits of true, honest work. Certainly our immigration policy needs an overhaul, but the Latino people I know would not base their vote purely on the idea of giving amnesty to people who came here illegally, and who commit fraud and tax evasion every day they work in “the underground economy.”
How can a population of immigrants who came here to work, and to succeed, be blind to the fact that Obama and the left seek to eliminate the freedoms and opportunity that they came here to enjoy? If the Democrats/socialists get what they want, this will no longer be the country they dreamed of coming to, and the very reasons they came here will be gone. I have faith that our Latino citizens will soon see the bigger picture, perhaps in 2014.
”The Right” did not “expect a low turnout among minorities and women.” Quite the opposite. We had hoped for a very high turnout of minorities and women who had, in the previous four years, come to their senses, and seen the facts — simply that this country is being crushed by $16 trillion national debt that Democrats have increased by more than 40 percent in his first four years, while our national defense is being decimated to powerlessness by Obama’s twisted priorities, in a dangerous world.
No one in either party that I know wants to deny any person “Social Security in retirement, Medicare in sickness and unemployment in joblessness,” as Mr. Nally puts it. The fact that so many are jobless today lies squarely with Mr. Obama and his shriveling economy, and the Democrat-led Senate that refuses to stop spending, and hasn’t passed a budget in four years. Under Obama, food stamp use has exploded because of this stagnant economy, and his “executive order” rules that make it more profitable to collect welfare than to work. Many people are now doing both.
Barack Obama did not “win” the election. The corrupt Democrat party, the leftist media and the filthy, corrupt public and private unions lied, cheated, bought, and stole it. Nothing new.
Mitt Romney is a man of honor and real personal success. A man of faith, with a lifelong history of good works. Barack Obama is none of those things, and never will be.
The Republicans “didn’t ‘lose’ the last election — the American people did.
Democrat politicians should be limited to two terms: One in office, and one in prison. Illinois already does this.
John Byrne
Hillsborough
