To the Editor:
I seldom read the Op/Ed page of any newspaper, much less a paper from Vermont, but I feel compelled to respond to your editorial “A troubling symptom”. It must be terrible to be a member of the apoplectic, impotent Left nowadays. The American electorate has turned out or turned down your leaders, the GOP controls both Houses of Congress and the White House. As any president would, Mr. Bush has sent qualified, highly intelligent candidates that fit his ideology to the Supreme Court.
In other words, the system is working…and you on the Left can’t stand it. Too bad. Instead of crying about how right you are, why not try to engage the American People on their own terms? Why insist, by extrapolation, that we are idiots for voting candidates into office that we actually want, like Mr. Bush? How about dropping the overheated, Bush-bashing rhetoric and speaking calmly instead of screaming? MoveOn.org, People for the American Way, NARAL, Code Pink, Veterans for Peace and others have failed to convince because they (and you) come off so predictably frantic, hate-filled and unbalanced. That will win few votes. So, why not publicly oppose them and their methods?
Actually, I am quite happy about this turn of events. I believe Judge Alito (or Alioto as Ted Kennedy called him) will be brilliant as Associate Justice Alito, showing his wisdom, experience and intelligence on the Supreme Court as he has done on the Circuit Court.
So, keep up the good work. The crazier you on the Left appear, the better Americans will see your true natures and send your devolved, childish thinking to the ash heap of history.
Excellent.