Another perspective on Purvis' campaign analysis
Barry Goldwater was a man of superior moral and political character compared to Lyndon Johnson. Johnson was a vocal white-supremacist while Goldwater was a leader promoting racial harmony and integration in Arizona. He was smeared as a war-monger and racist by Democrats who got us bogged down in Vietnam with no intention of winning and whose party members, including William Fulbright of Arkansas, blocked passage of civil rights bills until Republican votes in the U.S. Senate passed them.
The political issue of Michael Dukakis' release of murderer Willie Horton was originated by one of his Democrat opponents in the primaries. George H. W. Bush backers, not his campaign, used what was already disclosed and used by Democrats. The matter was a legitimate campaign issue no matter who used it, but it became "racist" only after Republican campaigners aired it.
Trump is speaking truth when he says that some Mexicans coming to America are criminals, drug dealers and rapists. Many of them have murdered Americans after being turned loose in "sanctuary cities" and other easy enforcement jurisdictions. Their unimpeded border-crossing and enablement by Democrat local officials must be stopped.
On Nixon's "secret plan" to end the Vietnam War, Nixon brought 500,000 American troops home from Vietnam in his first term, virtually ending American armed participation in that Democrat Kennedy/Johnson war. That's not a secret, but is something that the Left doesn't want to publicize, seeing as how they tried to blame the whole mess on Nixon. Nixon should have gotten a Nobel Peace Prize, but that would never happen because of Nixon's background in fighting left-wingers and communist spying in the Roosevelt administration.
I don't recall [columnist] Hoyt Purvis ("The Fear Factor," Sept. 14) expressing any concern about deficit spending and national debt if it relates to excessive liberal spending, unless he proposed to close the deficit gap by raising taxes.
And he's darned right: I am scared to death of Hillary Clinton becoming president of the United States.
Deplorably and irredeemably yours.
Gerald Holland
Bentonville
Commentary on 09/24/2016