John writes:

> To dismiss the charges as nonsense simply because they conflict with your
> political leanings is behavior suited to an ostrich.  I think the charges
> warrant scrutiny.  I hope they prove to be false and are exposed as such,
but
> to dismiss them as politically motivated fails to adequately address them.

You haven't been paying attention, have you?

This sort of thing has become standard right-wing, Republican fare over the
last 20 years. It began with Bush I's preying on the fears of excessively
fearful people with the use of the Willie Horton ads and has continued up to and
throughout all of the last presidential election.

In the last mid-term election cycle, I happened to be in Atlanta for a week,
and to be absolutely honest I was shocked by the level of vitriol that the
Republican Party of Georgia was issuing, attacking the patriotism of Max Cleland,
a Viet Nam triple amputee. The ads were so shocking and so mean-spirited that
I was embarassed to be registered as a Republican, and I gave serious though
to changing my party affliation. Saxby Chambliss was the beneficiary of that
hate-filled nonsense, but only to the point that every time I see him on TV
now, I see a man covered in excrement, someone unworthy to have been elected to
the US Senate, if for no other reason than he was associated with those ads.

This now-persistent Republican tactic is, as John McCain has said,
exceedingly dishonest and dishonorable.

Wirt Atmar

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