Your editorial about Democratic candidates in Monday’s Free
Lance gave readers much to consider.
I have been a registered Democrat since I was old enough to vote
and have faithfully voted in every election since, including the
presidential elections.
Your editorial about Democratic candidates in Monday’s Free Lance gave readers much to consider.
I have been a registered Democrat since I was old enough to vote and have faithfully voted in every election since, including the presidential elections.
Even so, the editorial, which to some seemed to be only Democrat bashing, started me thinking. No candidate is perfect and some even may said to be flawed. If age teaches anything it is that education is never over.
If we Democrats could find a candidate at the national convention with the qualities that have proved to be successful so many times in the past, he would easily carry the vote in November.
The candidate should, first of all, have the sweet nature of Jesse Helms, the personal integrity of Spiro Agnew and the humility of John Sununu.
Add to that the charm of Richard Nixon, the driving intellect of Ronald Reagan, the fidelity to family values of Newt Gingrich, the gallantry toward women shown by Arnold Schwarzenegger and the concern for Americans of all stations that George W. Bush demonstrates with every waking moment.
That would be a formidable candidate, one who would be unstoppable in November. True, few Democrats would vote for him, but there would be such a stampede across party lines that he would be swept into office by a landslide vote second only to George Washington’s in our national history.
Herman Wrede,
Hollister
