Letter to the Editor on “Sullivan for Congress” campaign in NYC by Bob S
The Sullivan for Congress campaign was a valiant, even noble effort to raise impeachment of the president and vice president as a major issue in this election cycle by local people without major party support. It was born of a genuine disgust with Jerry Nadler's intransigent refusal to take the Executive to task for breaking the law. The campaign was a true grassroots initiative in the best spirit of real democracy. Too bad the Democrats and the Nadler campaign and people didn't recognize that and crushed the campaign before it had its full chance to engage Nadler on impeachment. But why should any other behavior be expected? As the Democrats prove time and time again, they are a moribund, decadent party unwilling to squarely confront injustice, unable to stand on their principles dwindling like Antarctic ice caps.
That the Nadler campaign stopped the Sullivan campaign based on petition filing technicalities, two of these alleged irregularities being trivial, even ridiculous, shows just how far the Democrats, hypocritically hawking "Change You Can Believe In," will go to stifle debate on anything straying from a very bland, centrist discourse, designed not to offend anyone with money, power and influence. What's the change here? Do I hear The Who's chords: "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss?" That is, if the Democrats can even win this presidential bid!
We are living through a zeitgeist of fear and cynicism so that many of us now refuse to do what we know to be right, believing that legal, ethical and moral privation can only be challenged by political maneuvering rather than the truth. But some reject this craven tack, and the Sullivan campaign was one with the intrepid.
I wish Nadler were as lenient about applying the rules to Sullivan as he is about applying them to Bush and Cheney. But as we all know, the rule of law is often not evenly applied, used like a hammer on the relatively weak, or excused as impractical to wield when the wrongdoer is strong and politically powerful.
Indeed, meet the new boss......
