MD LETTER CHRON WON"T PRINT

SFRA Colleages, The Chronicle refused to publish this response to their Op Ed that bashed Republicans. SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Editor Republican Bill Bagley laments the “withering” of the Republican Party (Chronicle, Open Forum, May 13) Mr. Begley, is a former state legislator who also served in the Ford administration. He speaks for the same "country club" Republicans that bemoaned the election of Ronald Reagan, and rushed to convert their wine cellars to bomb shelters when the “cowboy" president told Gorbechev to tear down the Wall. In the 2008 election they recoiled at Governor Sara Palin who refused to abort (kill) her child diagnosed with Down Syndrome, and they smugly impugned 58 million Americans that opposed Barak Obama as being “Nascar, bible toting, gun nuts.” These RINOs who now are preaching about withering of the GOP helped elect an incompetent Commander in Chief that demeans America with shameless apologies and undermines national security with an “overseas contingency operation” in place of an aggressive war on terrorism. The Republican Party was founded in 1854 for one reason–to say no to slavery. Today it says no to enslaving America with excessive ta xes and spending, mediocre socialized medicine, open borders, amnesty and sanctuary cities-and appeasement. It takes a spine to say no. MIKE DENUNZIO CHAIRMAN SAN FRANCISCO REPUBLICAN ASSEMBLY