I was perhaps a bit more disparaging towards my political rivals than I had meant to be in my most recent letter to the editor, and that is regrettable. This is the silly season, when all of our own personal worst partisan tendencies manifest themselves, putting a polemic veneer to our very real and legitimate political differences.
While I do admit, I am a bit perplexed with the bear hug embrace of Kamala Harris as a candidate – a woman who was polling at 36% before her being named the replacement for Joe Biden, and who never won a single delegate in the only primary she ran in four years ago – I also concede that there are many legitimate reservations about my chosen candidate this cycle (some of which I share).
During these next few months when the partisan fur flies freely, it is worth remembering that the people supporting other candidates have their own reasons for doing so, and that they are our friends, neighbors, and relatives and after the election its our country to put back together again, not the political parties that divided it.
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
Nick McNulty
Windham