Democrats are losing ground

Re “Primary toll,” editorial, April 24

Conventional wisdom suggests that it is going to take a united Democratic front to defeat GOP Sen. John McCain in November. If true, then let me say it: Democratic Party unity is a matter of national security.

How else can you explain it when the presumptive Republican nominee says the United States may need to remain in Iraq for 100 years, or that his solution to the nation’s economic meltdown is to take a wait-and-see approach? McCain’s positions promote national insecurity. By moving quickly to bring the fighting between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton to an end, Democrats will be less likely to squander their political opportunity.

If they delay and let the campaign hostilities continue, I am afraid my party has little chance of winning back the White House this fall.

Denny Freidenrich

Laguna Beach

The Times calls the race for the Democratic nomination “a war of attrition.” We citizens call it democracy. Perhaps The Times would be happier with a single-party system and a single candidate, a single leader beneath whom we might all unite (democratically, of course). We could then vote for this candidate once every four years until he or she died.

Dumb.

Phillip Good

Huntington Beach