Republicans need not fear Hillary or Obama but one of their own...

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From a letter in the NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/02/opinion/l02elect.html?ref=opinion

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To the Editor:

Re “The McCain Transition” (column, Feb. 1): David Brooks suggests that John McCain needs to “reconnect with the spirit of this moment,” referring to the country’s thirst for transcending partisanship and progressing toward solving domestic challenges.

He also notes that “McCain seems to be burdened by the emotional cost of the war in Iraq.” He’s not alone. The vast majority of Americans have long since concluded that where Iraq is concerned, the cost-benefit ratio is not in our favor and that the war was a mistake.

Not only does John McCain assert that if he knew then what he knows now, he would still have invaded Iraq (a sovereign nation that posed no imminent threat to the United States), but he insists that we may be there until we are no longer suffering casualties and permanent bases have safely been erected.

It’s not Hillary Rodham Clinton or Barack Obama whom the Republicans need to fear. Americans have come to recognize bad judgment, and it looks like the Republican front-runner.

Felicia Massarsky
Hoboken, N.J., Feb. 1, 2008