Write!

Good morning!
(If you're going to read any of these posts, please keep in mind I have zero respect for several people mentioned here by name. I made an effort to change my tone a few months ago, but it's been hard to afford the time it takes to write.)

The bad guys are having a hard time hiding their badness (see John 3:20, below). The press is starting to cover it, smelling blood in the water. Democrats have been successful at letting them do their own damage, but now we have to swoop in, take the issue and run with it.

Now is the time to work the body (I fight- watch out for flying metaphor!), and as Carville says, time to work the ref. We're looking for a TKO, which is worth exactly as much as a KO, which is as good as a decision.

I think editors are biased against professional-looking letters and fruity language.
I know editors are interested in length, I'm sure they have two column inches to fill sometimes.

The above text is 97 words long. Try not to go over 200 words. Anything over 200 words has either too many ideas or too many words.

Pick a topic dear to you, and express yourself. "corruption in DC" is very broad. "War" is broad. Be specific, and tie it to local races and issues:

Senator Santorum leads the fight against the National Weather Service, favoring private enterprises. But private companies can't mobilize the National Guard or evacuate cities, which should have happened in DC when the National Weather Service started sounding the alarm about Katrina about a month before it hit land. Our Senator should not be guilty of helping President Bush wipe a black blue city off the map by carefully ignoring the warnings we know he heard. But he is guilty in the Katrina failure, so we are tainted by his false residency claim and psychotic behavior as Senator. Punish that asshole*!

Yours,
Joe

*I would encourage the use of less 'vivid imagery' in letters to the editor.