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Kinsley's essay left me wondering why a woman, with a history of doing her very best for the people who elected her at both local and state levels, would be suspected of becoming partisan once elected to national office? It seems to me that Alaskan Governor Palin would be just the person to help do for America what she has done for Alaska and Wasilla: increase revenues, decrease spending, tax windfalls and ensure greater dividends are returned to her present constituents. So what if she has found only 2% of Alaska's budget to be pork? No one else...
...Palin Effect I must confess I'd been struggling to understand the recent surge in the popularity of Sarah Palin until Joe Klein put it all into sepia-toned perspective [Sept. 22]. I realized that her appeal reflects a wistful desire for an abstraction, a wholesome place in our memory that is no more - and perhaps never was. We want to be reminded of who and what we think we were, not who we are. But yearning for our past, real or imagined, will not bring it back. And I fear that after the tribulations of the past eight years...
...return to the culture of small-town America - to its appreciation of education, traditional arts, the work ethic, hunting, community spirit and moderate churchgoing? Moderation and cooperation within the international community are what we so desperately need in the U.S. That is the change that McCain and Palin would bring. Jim Clemons, FREDERICKSBURG...
...Palin's myth, as described, seems to appeal to racist and homophobic people. McCain is certainly not the honorable man he claims to be if that is how he intends to win this election. If ignoring people who suffer at the hands of injustice is part of the American Dream the Republicans want to bring back, then they need to wake up, because America is about freedom. It's not about everybody being just like you. Lisa Toms, CINCINNATI, OHIO...
...remedy that is to vote Republican this time. If the next President is a Democrat, in four years he will still be young and surely will seek re-election. However, John McCain, after reaching the high point of his ambitions, will be fading, opening the Republican ticket for Palin. Furthermore, with Obama losing in 2008, Hillary Clinton will come back unstoppable, next time around. Then, whichever way it goes, we will have a woman in the White House. Pedro J. de Rezende, SAO PAOLO, BRAZIL