Jerry Brown’s Candidacy

I would like to make a few comments regarding Llewellyn Rockwell’s column (“Brown, on His Unicorn, Rides to the Rescue,” Column Right, Oct. 24) concerning Jerry Brown. Rockwell mentions Brown’s “meaningless” campaign phrase, “nominee of the future.” I guess that ranks up there with “a thousand points of light” for a domestic policy and “new world order” for a foreign policy.

Rockwell is grasping for straws trying to find dirt on Brown. He throws out the baseless comment that Brown is for “Gargantuan government.” I assume then that he is in favor of the Reagan/Bush policy of smaller, deregulated government, which in reality did not decrease the size of the bureaucracy, but instead turned a blind eye to glaring government and big business fraud and abuse that will plague the taxpayers of this country for decades to come.

Finally, Rockwell criticizes Brown for spending more than a year of his life tending the destitute of the world with Mother Teresa. I guess he feels more comfortable having a President who spends more time in his fishing boat or on the golf course than he does addressing the crumbling economy and infrastructure of our ailing country.

DANIEL ARMSTRONG

Santa Monica