Letter: Angry indeed — at candidates who kowtow to Tea Party

The Boston Globe ^ | September 29, 2010 | J. Halprin

[2ndDivisionVet]

IT SEEMS the only voters who matter this election season are the “angry voters’’ (“Mass. may lose its clout in House,’’ Page A1, Sept. 26). Here’s my question: Do you only count as a so-called angry voter if you are willing to vote for a lunatic like Christine O’Donnell in Delaware? This is not fair.

I consider myself a card-carrying angry voter. I am angry about wars being started for fake reasons that cause thousands of real deaths; I am angry about an economy that relies on corporate greed, even when it is practically destroyed by that greed, causing untold harm to untold millions; I am really, really angry that every morning I must read about Sarah Palin as if she has the right to matter, as if her dimwittedness is anything more than a cover for the politics of supreme selfishness...

[NTHockey]

This is the kind of crap the newspapers will publish as “enlightened” and “well-thought”. But let somene write a letter castigating government(s) for refusing to allow the military their right to vote, as I did, and it is either “too controversial” or it is “antagonistic”. Somehow, these letters get “lost”.

[MNJohnnie]

Wait until after the Nov 2nd Elections. After the 1994 elections we were subject to letter like this on editorial pages around the country for weeks.

[Gay State Conservative]

The utterances of most denizens of Cambridge are like so many gaseous emissions in the wind.