The Atlantic Monthly has posted a list of the 100 Americans who a panel of historians consider to be the most influential in American history.
I suggested adding five people to the list:
I also noted five people I thought could be removed:
Dear Senator Smith,
I was a Republican from the early '80s until 2003, and I'm sad to say that I agree with this assessment someone wrote yesterday:
"The modern GOP -- or, more specifically, the axis of '70s campus Republicans now running it -- really is just a criminal enterprise disguised as a political party.
"Dirty tricks, large and small, are a sorry fact of life in American politics, but what the Republicans have done over the past few weeks -- the surrealist attack ads, the forged endorsements, the midnight robo calls, the arrest threats, the voter misinformation (did you know your polling station has been moved?) -- is sui generis, at least at the national level."
I hope, Senator Smith, that you want to play a role in cleaning up the GOP. I have been horrified with what I have seen during this election campaign.
/s/ Steve Casburn