This is Viewpoints for Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Not a pretty picture
I hope foot dragging, recalcitrant Republicans saw that editorial cartoon. It shows the Republican elephant piously saying "The next president should choose the new justice." And the next frame shows President Hillary Clinton nominating Barack Obama.
I am a lifelong conservative voter. I have never in my life been more disgusted with the Republican front-runners. But I digress.
The scenario in that cartoon should strike fear into the heart of every conservative voter. It's apparently inevitable that Donald Trump or Ted Cruz will be the nominee.
The vision of a Trump or Cruz presidency may send Democratic voters to the polls in droves. Instead of a centrist jurist like Merrick Garland — we may wind up with a jurist far left of center — maybe even Obama. Republican's smug recalcitrance may well blow up in their collective faces if the next president is Clinton.
I never thought I'd see a Republican "debate" degenerate into a vulgar shouting match that included (of all things) not a single substantive solution to our country's problems, but a smarmy comparison of "package size." Cruz and Trump were chief birthers and now we have Cruz saying "I was born in Canada, but to an American mother so I'm a citizen." This was the same argument he used to say that President Obama, (allegedly) born in Kenya to an American mother (he was born in Hawaii) was disqualified as a candidate.
I am not at all happy with the Republican "front-runners" and face in November the sad likelihood of writing in a candidate of my choosing because the Republican Party is irretrievably splintered and broken. It has lost its center. Our democracy will survive, but it won't be pretty.
— Sherry Lazzaro
Warner Robins
Cooked noodle
Gov. Nathan Deal: You got a cooked noodle for a backbone instead of railroad iron. I remember getting a letter from you when you were running for governor telling me about your faith in God. It must have been the god of Coca Cola, Home Depot and Disneyland instead of the God of Abraham , Isaac and Jacob.
— George Scoville
Macon
This story was originally published March 29, 2016 at 9:07 PM with the headline "This is Viewpoints for Wednesday, March 30, 2016 ."