Letter to the editor

State representative Mark Burkhalter's guest column "Romney the best hope for a fiscal conservative president" was a wake up call for me. Let me see now if I 'get it'. We are in the midst of a bloody war in Iraq and toying with the possibility of taking on Iran in the near future. Global warming is happening despite the denials of self serving idiots who believe its a Democratic plot to rule the world. Gas prices are out of sight while oil companies are reaping outrageous profits. All this is going on and Mr. Burkhalter is telling us that Mitt Romney is going to ride in on his white charger weilding the only weapons the conservative right ever seems to have in its arsenal, the promise of lower taxes and smaller government? No intelligent person has any doubts about who would benefit most from tax cuts and as for smaller government. Consider the existing size of the present government under a Republican administration and permit me to rest my case. Mitt Romney could very well be a man to take seriously as a presidential contender, but he'd better have something more going for him than a desire to a cut taxes and reduce spending. That won't make much of an impact on global warming
and put an end to global conflict.

George Morin
Auburn, Ga.