Sunday, September 28, 2003
I don't know what to make of this, do you?
Regarding your Sept. 26 article "California recall: Does one man hold key?": American politics are now driven by only two considerations: winning and celebrity. Principled candidates - California's Tom McClintock or Republican John McCain - are routinely asked to bow out of races by the "moderates" in their parties, either because they aren't glamorous enough, or because their principled stands on substantive issues makes them "unelectable."
So we have governments of the status quo, for the status quo, and by the status quo. And we move ever further away from being a republic led by persons of principle.
Gerald Arcuri
Thousand Oaks, Calif.
It was found on Christian science monitor and I don't know if this just a quasicynical view by a nonvoter or an on target insight into our political machine.
Or as in our system of representation should not the moderates of the party, with the party's interests in mind ask those who are outside the realm of "status quo" to step down especially considering the ellectabillity of said candidates?
Regarding your Sept. 26 article "California recall: Does one man hold key?": American politics are now driven by only two considerations: winning and celebrity. Principled candidates - California's Tom McClintock or Republican John McCain - are routinely asked to bow out of races by the "moderates" in their parties, either because they aren't glamorous enough, or because their principled stands on substantive issues makes them "unelectable."
So we have governments of the status quo, for the status quo, and by the status quo. And we move ever further away from being a republic led by persons of principle.
Gerald Arcuri
Thousand Oaks, Calif.
It was found on Christian science monitor and I don't know if this just a quasicynical view by a nonvoter or an on target insight into our political machine.
Or as in our system of representation should not the moderates of the party, with the party's interests in mind ask those who are outside the realm of "status quo" to step down especially considering the ellectabillity of said candidates?
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