CORRESPONDENCE
Correspondence NO CHEER IN THE GOP William Kristol has put his finger on important elements of a key point I make from time to time to friends in politics (“Cheer Up!” Oct. 26). I used to say that...
...To think of humans as a species, rather than as humans, makes it possible for Singer to level nature’s playing field and think of humans as animals and animals as humans...
...Sessions has also helped raise over $200,000 this election cycle for Republican congressional candidates as an NRCC Executive Committee member...
...We have come a long way when people like Howard Fineman and other liberals say what they do about Clinton, but now, often in apparent attempts at “fairness” rather than simple accuracy, anchors and reporters discuss with seriousness the “spin” of Democrats...
...The preamble to his Practical Ethics is laced with Marxist concepts, though they are carefully camouflaged by utilitarianism...
...Singer’s discovery of animal liberation originates with the famous article “On the Jewish Question” in which Marx invented the much quoted and romantic idea of man as a “speciesbeing...
...But I can put it another way: Until the GOP learns (as a party and as individual lawmakers and candidates) the lessons of public relations and the proficient use of television, it will be far less effective and may never be, as Kristol points out, “a serious national governing party...
...JILL MELLINGER DALLAS, TX...
...Singer’s practical ethics are indeed practical: no need to be consistent, just think up practical reasons based upon Marxist ideas copiously mixed with popular liberal views to justify killing innocents who present a problem to the living, or to themselves...
...In Texas in 1994, Pete Sessions lost to a liberal Democrat, John Bryant, by a heartbreaking 3,300 votes in one of the closest congressional races in the country...
...T. HARDING JONES NEW YORK, NY BABY KILLER AND A MARXIST Wesley J. Smith’s review of Ethics Into Action by Peter Singer passed over—as have other reviews—the important fact that Singer’s ethics are essentially Marxist (“Killing Babies and Saving Halibut,” Oct...
...Moreover, in my opinion, Sessions is arguably the most popular elected official with the grassroots in Dallas County...
...One of Singer’s first books was about Marx...
...In 1996, Sessions, the Republican, won the fifth district in Texas...
...Bryant, seeing the handwriting on the wall, then chose to seek his party’s Senate nomination in 1996 for a chance to run against Sen...
...Tax cuts and school reform, two perfect issues for the GOP because of their immediacy, have again fallen by the wayside because Republicans do not know how to use the electronic media...
...GRAEME NEWMAN ALBANY, NY SHOW ME A WINNER I must bring to Fred Barnes’s attention another exception to his rule of thumb in politics: “Show me a Republican who lost in 1994, and I’ll show you a loser” (“Sweet Day for Sauerbrey,” Oct...
...In fact, the ability to discuss and reason has been so poisoned by this president that his impeachment is necessary not just to restore truthfulness to our national discussions, but to achieve an even larger goal: Impeaching Bill Clinton might finally rescue our country from the debilitating effects of 40 years of the moral relativism—imbued in almost every college graduate— which has allowed this president and his minions to spin with impunity in the first place...
...This country cannot be “nationally governed” without great skill at using these means of communication...
...The strategic budget cave-in to get out of town was acceptable because the GOP cannot count on the press—and it was more important to get back home to the voters than to risk being blamed for a shutdown...
...Phil Gramm (he was beaten in the primary by a virtual unknown, Victor Morales...
...As evidence of his strength, the Democrats have not even targeted his district as a possible pick-up this year, even though they have a candidate who is a proven vote-getter (none other than Victor Morales...
...I used to say that the GOP does not have a real majority because it does not have the press...
...Utilitarian Marxists— that is, practical Marxists such as Lenin, Stalin, Castro, Che Guevara, Mao Zedong, and Pol Pot—all share one ethic: They have never shied away from killing innocent people in order to achieve their goal of “equality...
...Even in the current situation, with talk radio dominated by conservative hosts and news channels on cable like Fox News and MSNBC bringing a certain balance, as long as reporters are liberal and broadcast with “ignorant credulity” the spurious claims of the Clinton administration, then conservatives and Republicans and Christians—anyone who is not hip and liberal—will be at a huge disadvantage...
...During his freshman term, he has distinguished himself as having one of the most conservative voting records in Congress...
Vol. 4 • November 1998 • No. 9
