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Writing about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's resignation, Eugene Robinson ["A Starter, Not a Finisher," op-ed, July 7] was quite right to "feel sorry for conservatives who look to her as a champion, because she's going to let them down."
It has become popular for rural, anti-government types to imagine that conservatism boils down to protecting families from the temptations of a cosmopolitan, urban world rather than serving the nation with sensible ideas, strong public institutions and effective policies.
My grandfather, George M. Young, was a Republican who represented rural North Dakota in the House of Representatives from 1913 to 1924. He quite nicely combined support for the state banking system and farm machinery cooperatives with fiscal discipline, and he was reelected five times. Conservative problem-solvers of his kind have been discarded by the GOP, and this severely threatens the health of our two-party democratic system.
Sarah Palin is a self-promoting know-nothing with a large constituency that views her as a victim of urban intellectuals. The way ahead for the Republican Party is to stop publicizing the antics of such clowns and support knowledgeable, pragmatic conservatives with real-world business experience, such as Meg Whitman of California.
GEORGE GUESS
Potomac
I was appalled that Richard Cohen called Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin a "ditz" in his July 8 op-ed column, "Dodging an Alaskan Bullet," and said that he was frightened that she could have wound up a heartbeat from the presidency.
