30 Second Letter to the Editor - Write AGAINST the Democrats THURSDAY! (action item)

The fact is, many people read the "Letters to the Editor" in their local, hometown papers. Further, these papers are more willing than the major ones to publish conservative points of view. Thus, by flooding these papers with letters, we can get our viewpoints out to a good chunk of the public.

So, I have prepared four sample letters below with some major points we need to get across. Take a look, and, if you have time, compose your own letter. If not, feel free to use a sample. Although I strongly discourage seminar letters, there is a good chance that, because of geographic diversity of FReepers and the options that have been laid out, more than one of the same sample will probably not reach the same local paper.

Before you start, be sure to enter your zipcode in the form provided and select "get info" -- the red button.

Check off all the publication names, and then scroll down to write your letter. If you have the time, then click "Show All Newspapers" and check off as many boxes as you can.

Why is John Kerry, a candidate for President of the United States, hiding from the American public?

It is about five months from the election, and, still, most Americans do not know who John Kerry is. Additionally, it seems that his handlers are intentionally trying to keep him out of the news. This shameful "run out the clock" strategy -- i.e. keeping Kerry out of the spotlight for as long as possible -- is unbecoming a candidate for the highest office in the land.

If John Kerry thinks that voters would turn away from him if they knew more about him and saw more of him, then he has no business running for President.

It is only five months from the Presidential election, and most Americans don't know who John Kerry is or where he stands.

His campaign is, apparently, trying to hide him from public view. Every time he does make an appearance, he seems to shoot himself in the foot -- e.g. his comment that he voted for funding the troops before he voted against it. Thus, his campaign managers appear to be trying to shield him from media coverage to prevent further gaffes -- which is absurd, because the American people have a right to know where their Presidential candidates stand on the issues and what their plans are to lead the country forward.

Senator Kerry must come out of hiding and tell the American people who he is and what he intends to do if elected. His current tactic of avoiding public contact is unacceptable.

While President Bush's plans for Iraq and for America's future are very clear, most Americans have absolutely no idea what his apparent opponent, John Kerry, would do differently. Aside from pretty commercials that tell us that he served in Vietnam 30 years ago -- along with his 8mm home movies -- we have no idea what he would do today.

In fact, John Kerry has not clearly articulated his position on any major issue whatsoever. Most Americans feel that he tends to flip-flop because he refuses to define for us any clear plan on any issue in any area.

Sure, he spends plenty of time bashing the President, but that doesn't give Americans any reason to vote FOR him.

John Kerry should be ashamed of himself if he intends to base his entire campaign on hammering the President's poll numbers while saying nothing about what he would do differently. Kerry needs to stop hiding, quit the bashing, and start talking -- substantively.

There is a lot of smoke rising out of the Democrats' camp lately, but there doesn't seem to be any fire.

Democrats have decided to run the most negative campaign in history. Ted Kennedy has compared Americans to Ba'athists; Nancy Pelosi, the Minority Leader in the House (and member of the Democratic Socialists of America), has launched vicious ad hominem attacks against the President; Senator Hollings burst into an Anti-Semitic tirade; Al Gore, worked up into a demented fury, said, again, that the President has "betrayed us"; and Senator Tim Johnson has sunk so low as to call the GOP "Taliban." This sort of rhetoric is nothing short of appalling. If this is the best they have -- i.e. nothing of substance or policy to say -- then these Democrats should not be in office.

Further, John Kerry -- who has apparently been in hiding -- has not distanced himself from this acerbic rhetoric.

We have no idea what the Democrats' plan for America is -- but they certainly have mastered the art of the negative campaign.

"Why is John Kerry, a candidate for President of the United States, hiding from the American public?"

A. Because he always has been a traitor.

My favorite post for DUmmies and trolls.

"I’m an internationalist. I’d like to see our troops dispersed through [sic] the world
only at the directive of the United Nations."
Hanoi John Kerry, The Harvard Crimson, 1970

HANOI KERRY
has a Campaign Platform
Just like the old days!

"It is a fact that in the entire Vietnam War we did not lose one major battle.
We lost the war at home and at home John Kerry was the field general"
- Bob Elder, Swift Boat Veteran For Truth

"I do not believe John Kerry is fit to be commander in chief of the U.S. armed forces,"
said retired Rear Adm. Roy Hoffmann, chairman of the organization.
"This is not a political issue. It is a matter of honesty."

I was there the same time Hanoi Kerry was.
I served on the destroyer USS Corry DD-817 which supplied PCF's and PBR's
and gave gunfire support in North AND South Viet Nam.
My ship may have even supplied Hanoi Kerry's boat.
I VOW I will do everything I LEGALLY can
to keep this traitor from being elected.
68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

The book that Kerry
wishes would just go away. HanoiJohnKerry.com is a blog with a primary purpose. That purpose is to counter the preposterous claims of Sen. John Forbes Kerry (D-MA) that he has any legitimate claim to any sort of "brotherhood" among combat veterans of the War in Vietnam.
While it is generally supposed that his service as a Naval officer on a "Swift Boat" in that theater was adequate and honorable, there is much to question regarding his readiness to allow the accolade "war hero" to be applied to him.
Likewise, it is not at all uncommon for more senior Naval officers to raise an eyebrow at the swiftness and relative comfort by which Lt. JG Kerry attained those medals, and who is available to vouch for the efficacy of his being awarded them (since, as boat commander, it would be his own task to make recommendation for awards for all personnel, including himself, on the Swift Boat).
But most egregious was his conduct, words and associations upon his early-out (from SEA) return to the USA and discharge from the US Navy. His leadership role with the radical pro-Communist (inaccurate to deem this group "anti-war") group called "Vietnam Veterans Against the [Vietnam] War" (hereafter VVAW).

It was while climbing the social and political ladder of the pro-Soviet Left as a principle of VVAW that John Kerry found his political soul-mate in Hanoi Jane Fonda. Granted, these politically formative years for Kerry were prior to the more outlandish acts of Fonda that earned her that name, but it is easily documentable that Fonda did not under go any radical transformation in belief or character from the time she and Kerry were working the same side of the street to the time she traveled to Hanoi, NVN and entered US history as the most overt traitor to ever NOT be charged, tried and executed.
John Kerry went to his own overt extremes to demonstrate that, politically, socially and in lowness of character, there wasn't a nickel's worth of difference between he and Fonda. Thus, in the spirit of fairness and accuracy, we are reasonably certain that he will be agreeably flattered by calling him Hanoi John Kerry.

Here, testifying before the Fulbright Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is where John Kerry, spokesman for Vietnam Veterans Against the War, cemented his position and moniker as "Hanoi John" Kerry. This was the occasion where US troops still in the field in Vietnam learned from one of their FORMER brothers-in-arms that they were heinous murderers and war criminals. HJK would now like to call on them for support in his bid to be the new Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces. Perhaps the most preposterous hypocrisy of all.

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