Sounding off: RINOs have ruined conservative movement

Regarding the article “Sen. Toomey says it’s ‘completely unacceptable’ for GOP to pick Trump in 2024”: What is completely unacceptable to conservatives are Republicans in name only (RINOs) like you who have ruined the conservative movement. Your ilk of Republicanism is a ruse.

You do not want to govern or to wield power in favor of conservative viewpoints; instead, when the party had power in 2016-18, you and your kind only served to undermine President Trump while not listening to his voting majority. Now the country is reaping the benefits of RINO hypocrisy.

Listening to you and Sen. Mitch McConnell and the like is just more RINO “if you elect me I’ll … blah blah blah” that has helped the left in undermining our country and conservative values.

“Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.” (Arthur Miller)

Nicholas C. Evanish, Bethel Park

Coming together is only way to end pandemic

By now, most of us know someone who has died from covid-19, among them beloved family and respected community members. So why are so many people so angry about being asked to wear a mask, or to get vaccinated?

I believe it’s because so many of our political leaders and media personalities have been lying to us and manipulating us. Cable news and talk radio stations have one goal: to make money. Politicians have two goals: to raise money and stay in power.

Both groups know the best way to bring in that money is to create controversy and get people riled up. So if you find yourself getting angry when you hear “please wear a mask” or “please get the shot,” please ask yourself why you’re angry. Who told you that these were dangerous things and infringed on your personal freedom, instead of safe things that could save your life and the lives of those you love?

When it comes to covid-19, please listen to your doctors, because they have your best interests in mind. We can end this pandemic if we come together as one community and one nation.

Patrick Reitz, Buffalo Township

Medical issues solved by medical experts, not posturing

Medical problems are best solved by medical guidance and practices; they are seldom solved by political posturing. Political posturing does not heal; it creates deeper hurts and social damages.

Watching and reading news stories and letters to the editors, or driving by local schools, allows us to witness the growing rifts that result from making a medical problem into a political issue. The gains are few and the losses many.

I understand the fervor of those who rail against the governor’s mandate; I respect their right to express such views. But I have concerns about how they are going about their expressing: disrupting school board meetings differs from carrying a sign in a peaceful demonstration. Calling public officials cowards or (from the anonymity of a crowd) telling them they have no backbone as well as flat-out threatening that “there will blood” takes the whole business in an unsavory, nonproductive direction.

In the story “Hempfield parents ask school board members to join their fight against mask mandate” (Sept. 13, TribLIVE), one student was quoted as saying he did not want to be told what to do, an endgame position. Last year, when schools reopened in a hybrid model, there were few objections to wearing masks because masks and vaccines were the medical solutions that started to diminish the surge and bring down infection numbers.

Today is not that different. We are in a re-surge, driven by variants. The identifiable solutions are vaccination, wearing of masks indoors and cooperation in uniting against covid and not berating and being angry with others.

Collin T. Wansor, Hempfield

‘Horton Hears a Hoax (‘Cause He Only Watches Fox)’

Letter to the editor: ‘Horton Hears a Hoax (‘Cause He Only Watches Fox)”Horton Hears a Hoax’

I won’t wear a mask

That’s too much to ask

Won’t cover a sneeze

Cuz, “muh liberties!”

Common courtesy is a liberal plot

No matter the death count, I won’t get the shot

No, I won’t get the vax

That’s too much to ask

Don’t tread on me with “please” —

Freedom’s just another word

For I just gave you a disease

No, I won’t wear a mask

Or get the vaccine

The common good strikes me

As just plain obscene

True is false

And lost is found

No, I won’t turn off Fox

And I won’t turn it down

No, I won’t get the vax, won’t wear a mask

If that’s your request don’t ask it

If I should go missing from Facebook

Check a ventilator or casket

David Ninehouser, Ambridge

Biden supplying the enemy

As the Afghanistan debacle winds down, dozens of questions are being asked from every quarter as to what went wrong. One pertinent inquiry is, “Who funds these terrorists?” I’m sure there are unanswered questions on past terrorist operations, but as for future attacks, no one has to look any further than what traitor Joe Biden has done. Who in their right mind would leave and give over to the Taliban billions in U.S. military equipment, some of the finest in the world? Allowing the enemy to take the country is bad enough, but giving them our equipment besides is treasonous at the least!

When will these un-American leaders be held accountable?

Don Thomson, North Huntingdon

Dems’ double standard on Biden

Where are the Democrats now? They were eager to protect us from President Trump at the slightest perceived infraction. Why isn’t Rep. Eric Swalwell (you know, the guy with an affinity for Chinese spies) calling for impeachment? Why isn’t Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi calling for implementation of the 25th Amendment?

We now have a sitting president who I believe if he were your grandfather, you wouldn’t let him drive himself to pick up his prescriptions for fear he would get lost or have an accident. This shell of a man has access to the nuclear codes and is in charge of the nation’s military forces.

The double standard is unbelievable. The Democrats will not publicly defend President Biden, but they will let him endanger the nation and the entire world with his bizarre and reckless decisions. Shameful behavior.

Ed Davis, Greensburg

GOP should focus on important issues, not jeopardize voters

As I read the article “Pa. Senate GOP moves to collect private voter information in controversial review of 2020 election,” I could not believe that the Republican Party continues to try to spend our money and jeopardize all voters by collecting Republican, Democratic and independent voters’ personal data. All for what? To try to overturn the “big lie” and prove that President Trump did not lose?

After two audits that confirmed Trump lost by 81,000 votes in Pennsylvania, the Republican Senate wants to waste our tax dollars looking for a needle in a haystack that just is not there.

Maybe they should concentrate on things like reducing the size of government, the amount of legislators and their staffs in Pennsylvania and the large associated costs. Or trying to figure out a way to collect the $104 million lost through non-collection of turnpike tolls.

And last but not least, do their job, which is representing the people and not building up their egos. If they don’t work for us, they deserve to be replaced.

Ron Giuliana, North Huntingdon