Mikey The "Zig Zag Man"

Two more prospective voters for Patrick Murphy were published in the Bucks County Courier Times this morning.

I wasn’t really surprised to see Congressman Fitzpatrick flip his position on the war in Iraq.

He is running against Patrick Murphy, a veteran of the Iraq War. The death toll is climbing and every day sees more Americans seriously injured.

Most Americans oppose the war and politicians who walked arm in arm with President Bush on Iraq are being defeated in their own elections.

With the election less than three months away it is no wonder that he decided to come out against the war.

What was even less surprising was the Courier Times quickly jumping to congratulate Fitzpatrick on his flip-flopping.

At least your paper did acknowledge that Patrick Murphy has had a plan for ending our involvement in Iraq since last year.

Too bad you didn’t ask Fitzpatrick why it took him so long to come to the same conclusion most Americans reached long ago; that the current administration has no plan for getting us out of Iraq and no idea how to stop the constant fighting that kills people every day.

Andrea Harvie
Bristol, PA

The political circus has begun with the barkers trying to sell us on their candidate. Most likely, apologists for Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick will try to defend the Republican Party’s record under George W. Bush as the best thing that has ever happened to us.

Mike will bark loudly that he is “independent.” He claims a 60 percent environmental record isn’t a failure.

He will even claim that he is in favor of Social Security. He voted to extend the tax breaks for the rich, which he claims is good for the economy. He visited Iraq and told us the press had it wrong; the people are happy.

The national debt doesn’t require controlling spending or new taxes, it requires tax cuts for the rich and corporations coupled with the elimination or reduction of federal programs for the average American.

Mike is a “Zig Zag Man.” You don’t know where he stands. What he says isn’t what he does.

By September he will have spent thousands of dollars selling us a front row seat for the circus.

As a senior who has never missed voting for 46 years, I am not going to vote for the clever, self-serving politicians enslaved and seduced by the power and wealth of his master.

Jim Mannion
Falls Township, PA

By the way, from what I can determine (didn’t see the webcast), it sounds like Patrick presented himself well in the first debate (I'm kicking myself actually because I want to find out what Mikey said about attacking Iran).