(letter to editor, Boston Globe, 11/07/02)

Father knew best


11/7/2002

MY DAD, whom I did not like very much, always said that the Republicans 
were mean and the Democats were stupid. This election season has raised 
my estimation of him greatly. So, get ready for a whopping budget 
deficit and a sharp rise in the unemployment rate. In addition, we'll 
see an increase in the worldwide hatred of this country, evaporation of 
retirement funds, women's rights denigrated, cronyism and political and 
corporate ripoffs, further disenfranchisement of poor people and 
minorities, cruel acts of petty revenge, and body bags from our 
never-ending war on terrorism. 


Thank you, Democrats, for letting it come to this. You could have made 
this election a referendum on an illegal war and won the election, or at 
least the moral high ground. You could have made this election a 
referendum on an economy that is tanking because of greed, avarice, and 
collusion, and you would have won back the House and kept the Senate. 
But your own greed, avarice, and collusion kept you silent.

Shortsighted, righteous, greedy Republicans and cowardly Democrats have 
set the stage for a plunge in our country's international reputation that 
will take 50 years of concentrated effort to restore and a shattering of 
our national moral fiber that we may never recover from.

Thanks again! You people are really a sorry sight. Remember, it's not how 
much worse off you are now than you were two years ago, it is how 
infinitely worse off you're going to be two years from now.

Democrats, shame on you. My fervent wish is that when the body bags begin 
to come home, each of you who supported that bogus Iraq resolution gets 
defeated in your next election.

Where has the party of John F. Kennedy gone?

DON BYRD

Pawtucket, R.I