Time to move on

Dear editor:

The “Great One” has attacked Mary Robinson in today’s June 17 letters to the editor. He accuses her of not being able to distinguish between accusations of “generalities,” lack of fact and name calling. He also has accused me of lying about the election results.

How embarrassing to have to explain to the “Doc” that writers to this venue are expressing their opinions. Webster defines an opinion as a noun; personal view, the view somebody takes about an issue, especially when it is based on personal judgment.

It is quite telling that you voted for President Nixon twice, if memory serves me correct; he was on a goodwill tour in Caracas, Venezuela, when he was vice president. A group of angry protesters stoned his car and broke the windows; he escaped the mob by hiding under the Secret Service men who were assigned to protect him. Did those people know more about him than we did? I did vote for President Jimmy Carter, a huge mistake on my part. I learned from that experience and have not voted for a Democrat since.

Yes, I do understand the meaning of a mandate, the election was won by President Trump in spite of the overwhelming opposition from the press; the strong challenge from Bernie Sanders, who’s supporters were duped. In an election that was bought and paid for by people who expected a large return on their investment in HRC. President Trump had a total of 304 to 227 electoral votes, so you can rationalize it any way you want to, it’s time to move on.

Obama’s mentor, Saul Alinsky’s 1971 book “Rules for Radicals,” seem to be employed by some of the liberal and progressive people who write the letters to the editor; they all follow the same general theme. For the people who have not read Alinsky, but follow his teachings unwittingly, they are briefly as follows. Pick a target, ridicule it, personalize it, freeze it and polarize it. If you tell a lie often enough, people will start to believe it.

If the Justice Department and the FBI were doing their job and quit playing politics, the Clinton retirement fund, comprising of cash from the people she did favors for, her repeated lies about her emails would be enough to take her off the streets for a few years. Martha Stewart told the FBI one lie and away she went.

Please don’t think that I am critical of just the Democrats, because many of the Republicans need a fire lit under them, also. They need to get behind the president and help him get the business of the people who elected them done, or they will get changed in the next election. I do pray to God every day to protect our president and hope he can turn our great country around. Donald J. Reynolds Royal