[Vision2020] Idaho Republicans have neglected the real issues

[Ralph Nielsen]

Idaho Republicans have neglected the real issues

On Nov. 4, Idahoans will go to the polls and overwhelmingly vote for  
John McCain and "Snow Job Square Glasses" (Sarah Palin), despite the  
abject failure of Republican economic policies. Perhaps Idaho's  
Republicans can be excused for their collective inattention - their  
focus has been on other, more pressing conservative issues.

While mortgage salesmen packaged bad loans, Idaho Republicans moved  
to ban gay marriage.

While Wall Street financiers concocted complex credit swaps, Idaho  
Republicans rallied to keep the Ten Commandments monument in a Boise  
park.

While investment firms piled debt upon debt, Idaho Republicans  
cheered on local proselytizers who used a media stunt to intrude  
their religion in China.

While foreign banks continued to buy America's debt, Idaho  
Republicans loudly insisted they were opposed to patriotic taxes to  
pay for their wars and their warfare state.

While right-wing talk shows regularly assailed an imagined socialist  
conspiracy, Idaho Republicans were relieved when their man, George W.  
Bush, began nationalizing the economy.

Henry David Thoreau must have been thinking of Republicans and  
religionists when he wrote: "There is no creed so false but faith can  
make it true."

GARY L. BENNETT  [A Goldwater Republican, in a letter to the Idaho  
Statesman, Boise]
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