Letters: Campaign rhetoric way past ridiculous

I am grateful to live in this wonderful representative republic. So I know I should also be grateful for the push and pull of electoral politics. But after reading the July 19 State (“Trump bashes McCain’s war record: ‘I like people who weren’t captured’”), I can’t help thinking of Shakespeare’s “tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury and signifying nothing.”

Does anybody else sense that the weird political rhetoric is blasting us not only earlier and earlier each cycle, but with weirder and weirder content?

This story was originally published July 28, 2015 at 7:36 PM with the headline "Letters: Campaign rhetoric way past ridiculous."