Lonzie Cox – 9/9/08

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Paris Hilton would be a better choice; Lonzie Cox, Jr.; Beaver County Times; September 9, 2008. I am not related to Mr. Cox.

Most of Mr. Cox’s 30+ letters since 2004 are tinged with race, though this one is an exception.

This is at least the seventh letter from local lefties upset (worried?) about John McCain selecting – and Republican delegates approving – Gov. Sarah Palin as his VP candidate. The “concern” has nothing to do with qualifications as the authors would have us believe. It’s clear these folks are afraid of Mrs. Palin because it demonstrates even the Republican VP candidate has more relevant experience than the entire Democrat ticket, unless you consider being an ACORN street organizer relevant experience. Let’s also keep in mind the questionable judgment of local lefties when it comes to their own choices. Do names like Joseph Glenn, Frank LaGrotta, Darla LaValle, Edward Piroli, Sean Ramaley, Lois Sutter, and Mike Veon ring a bell? Before lefties try to convince us Mr. McCain made a mistake, perhaps they need to look in the mirror. As a reminder, Mr. Cox himself wrote at least one letter supporting Mr. Veon.

And what of Mr. Obama’s choices? For a candidate who incessantly talks about “change” and “hope,” why does Mr. Obama surround himself with the same lefty activists, advisers, and politicians we’ve seen since at least the 1990s? Why would a true change agent select as his VP running mate a 35-year Washington insider (Joe Biden)?

Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.

“Now that John McCain has chosen a totally unequipped person — gender doesn’t matter — to be his vice president, he’s again being called a maverick.

“It’s a real bad joke and a terrible mistake. What if she becomes president?”

[RWC] Just as with Mr. McCain, with Gov. Sarah Palin we’d have a better president than we’d have with either Barack Obama or Joe Biden. That’s what really bugs Mr. Cox.

Have you noticed local righties haven’t given Mr. Obama’s VP choice, Joe Biden (D-DE), the time of day?

“I didn’t think we would ever see another person like George W. Bush in the White House, but McCain has made it possible and maybe inevitable.

[RWC] We can hope. Oh wait, has the Obama/Biden campaign copyrighted “hope?” <g>

“McCain could have chosen Elizabeth Dole or one of those other Republican women we see so often on talk shows if he just had to have a woman as a vice presidential running mate.”

[RWC] Yeah, I’m sure Mr. Cox would have loved Mrs. Dole.

“Paris Hilton made a very impressive statement about her own solutions to the energy crisis recently. She sounded smarter than McCain himself.”

[RWC] I’m not surprised Mr. Cox believes “Paris Hilton made a very impressive statement about her own solutions to the energy crisis.” After all, it was a leftist “solution.” That said, it was more coherent than that of Mr. Cox’s candidates, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, so I can understand why Mr. Cox was impressed.

“I wonder if McCain considered Paris for VP. He could have explained her like he explains everything else: ‘Don’t question me; I’m a maverick, an ex-prisoner of war and a hero, too.’”

[RWC] I defy Mr. Cox to produce a single instance when Mr. McCain referred to himself as a “hero.” Mr. McCain has always claimed he wasn’t a hero, but served with heroes.

“Every American should decide for himself or herself who is a hero and who is not. And Barack Obama should stop calling McCain a hero. I’m tired of hearing it.

“Enough is enough.”

[RWC] Funny, I don’t recall Mr. Cox being upset in 2004 when John Kerry constantly talked about his few months in Vietnam.

Finally, if you’ve followed Mr. Cox’s letters supporting Mr. Obama and/or attacking Mr. McCain, you recall Mr. Cox hasn’t yet told us why he supports Messrs. Obama and Biden.