Alex Yawor – 9/21/06

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Santorum’s gimmick will work; Alex Yawor; Beaver County Times; September 21, 2006.

Mr. Yawor’s previous letters attempted to bash President Bush regarding Iraq and Iran, and VP Cheney regarding his hunting accident. In a recent letter, Mr. Yawor implied if you support our action in Iraq, you are “eager to send our young to die in Iraq.”

Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.

“I have to agree with Thursday’s letter ‘The public deserves better’ by Dorothy Cardimen.

“U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum and his team must really be concerned about his chances to win the coming election when he has to have his children help him.

“You have to hand it to Santorum and his team for coming up with this gimmick because I think it will work. There are many undecided voters now, and after seeing the ad of the children saying how wonderful their dad is, I think they will vote for the senator because of the children praising their father and not because of the senator’s record.

“The ad may not be ethical, but in today’s politics, ethics have been thrown out the window. People do not vote on the issues anymore, because they no longer believe what the politicians say. I feel that they vote for the one that has the least amount of mud thrown at him.”

[RWC] When did a campaign ad showing your family become unethical? As I noted in the Cardimen critique, “Trotting out your family has been a campaign ritual since forever. You’d think Sen. Santorum invented it.”

“After reading Sunday’s editorial ‘The road to perdition,’ I would like to ask the Republicans a question. I am against some of the things that the president has done, so I am called a traitor even though I fought the enemy in World War ll.”

[RWC] Who’s calling Mr. Yawor a traitor? Heck, even most Republicans are “against some of the things that the president has done.” That’s true for every president regardless of party.

Mr. Yawor doesn’t want to be called a traitor, yet in a previous letter he implied if you support our action in Iraq, you are “eager to send our young to die in Iraq.” Mr. Yawor doesn’t like being called names, but has no problem engaging in name-calling himself.

While I disagree with calling people who don’t agree with President Bush traitors, people like Mr. Yawor need to consider the following. If you’re on record promoting the same positions as our enemies, should you be surprised if some people think that treason?

On a side note, fighting an enemy in the past doesn’t preclude one from being a traitor in the present. Does Benedict Arnold ring a bell? For the history challenged, Gen. Arnold was an American war hero in the Revolutionary War before he felt slighted and decided to switch sides and fight for the British.

“Now, Colin Powell, Gen. Jack Vessey, Sen. John McCain, Sen. Lindsey Graham and Sen. John Warner are against what the president is doing. So are they also traitors? Oh, by the way if Santorum wins the election, I think he should give his children a large increase in their allowance. They sure made him look good.”

[RWC] To be honest, I wish I knew the motivation of folks like “Colin Powell, Gen. Jack Vessey, Sen. John McCain, Sen. Lindsey Graham and Sen. John Warner.” As I noted in my critique of “The road to perdition,” their position makes no sense.