Editor, Times-Union: Jack, Jack, Jack, if the shoe fits ... as for name calling, a rose by any other name ... be it extremism, obstinacy, partisanship, or even prejudice, all words that pop up on Roget’s Thesaurus when you type in fanaticism.
Given Richard Mourdock’s recent statement on the political mind-control network Fox News, that “I have a mindset that says bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view,” we know that if elected he will be sure to contribute to the uncompromising Washington gridlock that most Americans have grown sick of. Seems rather fanatical to me.
In regards to the pension money you refer to, I’m sure our public employees appreciate the Republicans weakening of the ability to collectively bargain with their employers to try to make some of that up. Maybe Mourdock could take that $300 million he lost and found as Indiana state treasurer and donate it back to our local firefighters, police and teachers, now that we are a “Right to Work for Less” state. As for paying our fair share of taxes, why don’t you and your Silent No More buddies trot down to your local pulpit and suggest revoking your own 501(c)(3) status so you can just holler your heads off about how you need to start legislating morality through the due process of a Christian form of shariah law. For a political affiliation who claims a monopoly on Christ, the Tea Party and Silent No More bunch come off as uncompassionate, mean-spirited and down-right heartless when it comes to the plight of poor people in this country.
I usually avoid calling out the writers of the letters I may disagree with out by name, but felt driven to express an opposition to Monica Boyer’s letter in support of the neophyte Mourdock, with a letter in support of Richard Lugar, an elder statesman considered one of the foremost experts on foreign policy as he is the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and was its chairman from 1985 to 1987 and 2003 to 2007. Much of Richard Lugar’s work in the Senate was toward the dismantling of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons around the world. Something we should not dismiss so offhandedly.
