Look at the final score

Sunday’s letters to the editor (March 22) certainly gave us an eyeful of the opinion certain radical conservatives have about us poor deluded liberals.

The very, very important Mr. Slusher of Okanogan (“Arpaio should be praised”) has decreed that anyone who disagrees with his philosophy, essentially liberals, has to be mentally challenged. He feels that Joe Arpaio, sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz., should be sanctified for the inhumane treatment of his prisoners.

As a liberal, I naturally disagree. I think Sheriff Arpaio should be indicted, tried and sentenced to prison. Not his prison, of course. As a liberal, I can’t be inhumane.

I, like most liberals I know, don’t feel that conservatives are diseased mentally; they just lack common sense and common decency. Spokane County’s own Mr. Leach of Mica (“Democrats squeeze faithful”) demonstrates another manifestation of this affliction. His solution for our fuel problem is for everyone to drive Hummers. He wants us to “throw the bums out!” He doesn’t understand that we did that in 2006 and 2008. Obviously, neither he nor Slusher ever heard of George Santayana.

In short, I have but two words for Messrs. Slusher and Leach: We won.

Ed Meadows

Spokane