Letters
Gabriel Read Avon Park
Highlands Today
Published: January 20, 2012
Smoke-free vets club availablePublished: January 20, 2012
We at American Legion Post 69 agree with Carolyn C. Hagar's letter, except that there is one no-smoking veterans club.
Post 69 has been no-smoking for almost two years. Come join our smoke-free, friendly veterans club at 1301 W. Bell St., Avon Park. We even have a covered smoker's area for our smoking members.
Bob Burke
Financial officer
Avon Park
Media keeps campaign chugging
The media continue to "do their job," on anyone but Romney. Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum was the latest target projected into front runner. The objective: Keep the Republican campaign "alive."
However, Santorum barely achieved stardom (with media help) when the media did not wait for the other candidates to attack him, they initiated it themselves. Santorum had played the role of underdog well, but he couldn't overcome his own past.
All the other candidates kept shooting themselves in the foot and became also-rans, except Romney and Ron Paul. The media were successfully holding Romney to 25 percent in the polls — either first or second — but with the results of Iowa and New Hampshire, he scored 40 to 50 percent in the polls. He broke through that threshold.
Now the media are searching for, pleading for, an outsider to champion, because heaven forbid, we can't close the book on a nominee yet.
Then lo and behold, Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi, one of the major prospects for vice president, pardons some 200 convicted felons his last day as governor.
Other excellent prospects like Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey have wisely ducked this shooting gallery, the worst campaign in 100 to 150 years — one hatchet job after another.
The American voters had tired of this sordid thing months ago. They cannot wait until November gets here.
Rep. Ron Paul, whose consistent and "radical" policy of defending and supporting the U.S. Constitution, progressed from 2 percent to 38 percent in the polls.
He is nibbling at Romney's heels.
Oh where, oh where can the next prospect be?