Assessing the Candidates
Your “Bush a Wimp?” editorial of March 13 makes careful use of analysis and statistics to no real purpose other than to pander to the lowest common denominator of the public.
The astonishing thing is that people can seriously call the vice president, a World War II Air Corps hero, and head of the Republican Party and the CIA during the thankless 1970s, a wimp.
Why? Because he’s skinny? Because of his voice? Just what sort of prejudice is being called up? And just what is the point? Can’t George Bush be attacked on the issues? On his character? Why make up things?
If Bush’s critics don’t like the job he’s done as vice president (and has there ever been a vice president whose prerogatives and pre-eminence were not subordinate to the President’s?) why don’t they just say so, and then say why? That is, if they can.
TOM COTREL
Burbank
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