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I’m a lifelong liberal Democrat--well, from age 9 to crowding 90--but the silly proposal by Senate Democrats to assuage vice presidential candidate Sen. Lloyd Bentsen’s (D-Texas) feelings by giving aid to the Nicaraguan Contras strongly tempts me to withhold humanitarian aid from Democrats in the coming election (Part I, Aug. 4).
It’s as if the Republicans in Congress in 1980 had proposed, in deference to George Bush’s feelings, to suspend on alternate Tuesdays Ronald Reagan’s “voodoo economics.” Yes?
MARGARET CRALLE
Arcadia
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