Editor,
The Republican Party in the days of Eisenhower, Goldwater, Nixon and even Reagan was a normal political party with its own set of standards that were moderate in most cases. They usually had no problem working with Democrats on most issues.
Now, they want to impose their will on women and not let them have abortions, even if the women are raped. They want to regulate women’s contraception and who can get married, and they want you to worship the person they interpret as God. This is nothing more than a minor version of the Taliban, which does the same thing, but which is a little more extreme. Eisenhower, Goldwater and even Reagan respected women. They believed, correctly, that abortion was between a woman, her doctor and her God, and was none of the government’s business. They weren’t homophobes, and they wanted to keep all religion out of government. Reagan and Goldwater fought hard to keep God out of the Republican platform. Believe me, I know and like God, and he isn’t anything like this Republican/Taliban party portrays him to be.
Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln are rolling over in their graves watching these right-wing extremists, the Republican/Taliban Party trying to subvert America to their socially extreme way of thinking. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney is a decent human being, but he is in the wrong party.
Richard “Bugman” Fagerlund
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