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I have not yet been asked by President Bush to serve as his San Diego County chairman in 1992 as I did in 1988. I honestly do not know if I will be asked. Perhaps after writing this letter, I won’t be. However, before I embarrass a decent man who is married to a marvelous American treasure, Barbara, let me say I have serious reservations about another four years of George Bush.

First off, Mr. President, why the break in your pledge of “read my lips, no new taxes”? To all of your critics, on both sides of the aisle, Mr. President, you showed that you are not a man with a solid domestic economic philosophical base. To us Republicans, you broke a promise made at our convention in New Orleans.

Second, you speak boldly about getting government off the back of American business, cutting capital gains taxes and advancing the American business agenda. Yet, these appear to be just slogans or words, not heartfelt desires of your presidency. You have tremendous political muscle and yet you don’t choose to exercise it when it’s related to these fundamental Republican domestic issues.

Please, Mr. President, recognize that the talent and strength of this great nation does not lie with the overpaid crybaby executives you took with you on a sorry trip to Japan--but instead with the hard-working Americans who are building a new future and a new America. Not the Americans crying about unfair competition because they are afraid to compete, but the Americans who are willing and able to look into the future without fear, those Americans who are full of hope and optimism.

Believe it, Mr. President, because unless you do, you are destined to either lose this 1992 election, or worse yet, lead us into four years of retreat and regret.

TOM C. STICKEL

San Diego