Tired ticket
Sir : Mr Peter Walker (16 August) commits the common error of claiming to support Conser- vatism in Britain whilst opposing it abroad.
He sneers at the higher morality advocated by Governor Reagan of California—and what does America need but more morality in government after the 'New Deal' and its squalid successors? He endorses the big-spending can- didates like Mayor Lindsay and Governor Rockefeller who are typical products of the Eastern 'liberal' establishment which has sought to make the republicans a 'me-too' counterpart to democratic policies ever since Alfred Landon. Mr Walker idolises Mayor Lindsay and Governor Rockefeller, the very men who took a leading part in misrepresenting Senator Goldwater as some kind of a megalo- maniac in 1964. And yet Senator Goldwater was the first Conservative candidate American voters bad been able to vote for since 1932.
Mr Nixon's supporters are labelled collec- tively as without 'particularly strong views.' Mr Walker is either deliberately ignoring or ignorant of the strong and consistent Conser- vative philosophy of Senators John Tower and Strom Thurmond and Mr Goldwater, who helped to lead the Nixon forces at the Miami Beach convention.
This article would seem to be a fair example of the haze of distortion which has been drawn over the American political scene by liberal commentators. Whenever a party has nominated a Conservative candidate who threatens the establishment, liberals-of both parties unite to indulge in that vicious character assassination which dominated the 1964 campaign and threatens to do the same for Governor Reagan and Mr George Wallace.
In short, as a Conservative, Mr Walker can only persuade his readers that he has been looking at the United States through rose- coloured spectacles.
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