“Smaller government, smaller taxes.” That's what all the GOP candidates are campaigning on. Add to that more mumbo jumbo about Iraq and how the surge is working and how we're going to end up winning that war. McCain, Guiliani, Huckabee and Romney all say Hillary is not in tune with the American people. What a joke. Hillary will at least admit the American people are not being properly represented. As a matter of fact, outside of the rich and powerful, they're not being represented at all. Talk about being out of touch. They are so far out of touch that on a scale of 1 to 10, I give them a 1. On a scale of 0 to 10, I give them a zero.

Because if elected, that's the kind of representation they'll give the American people, just like the past.

You can bank on that. And you can bank on the fact they'll keep lying about Iraq. That's all they've done since they took it upon themselves to hoodwink everyone into a paranoid frenzy that Hussein had all these weapons of mass destruction ready to bombard the good ol' USA.

Name-calling and fear-mongering are what the good ol' boys of the GOP are good at.

Those smiles and sincere speeches can't cover up the fact they're proven wolves in sheep's clothing.

Yes, these big bad wolves would like nothing better than for one of them to get elected president and carry on doing nothing but the same old same old that Bush has done.

On a scale of 0 to 10, Bush gets a minus 10.

And he gets a minus 10 because he's done no good at all. He's done nothing but bad.

He's responsible for the huge deficit, a war that shouldn't have been and he has shown absolutely no remorse for all the scandals under his administration.

The same holds true for the four GOP candidates mentioned. In a nutshell, any GOP candidate simply cannot be trusted to do anything good for the American people.

Murray Lynch

Auburn