In response to a recent letter accusing Clay Bennett of anti–Christian sentiments, I remind everyone that Christians don’t have the market cornered for false piety.  Hypocrisy abounds in all faiths.  But Christians do seem to holler the loudest about it, especially at election time.  It’s a rare person who looks in the mirror and doesn’t flinch.

In the Clay Bennet cartoons I have seen, I note that he doesn’t suffer fools gladly and he doesn’t pull his punches.  In my opinion, he only blew it once, and that was today’s cartoon, which shows a witch riding a broom to write a message in the sky.  It reads, “Surrender, Fleischman.”

It occurs to me that the reference to the Wicked Witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz will be lost on many people.  But what concerns me, and I assume, many women, is that the idea for this cartoon would not have occurred to Bennett if Fleischman were running against Robert Smith.

I am no supporter of Robin Smith, nor her regressive positions, and I hope she doesn’t prevail.  She’s a forceful woman, to be sure, but Bennett’s cartoon reinforces a negative allusion to a strong woman’s personality.  We’re better than that.