Your review of the European reactions to the primaries in Iowa and New Hampshire is quite to my liking (“Those Naïve American Voters,” January 12, 2008). Putting so much emphasis on the gender or the race of a few presidential candidates shows nothing but European condescension toward American voters. In the last analysis, the person who eventually gets the voters’ approval will promote American interests around the world, and it is plain naïve to expect anything else. A pity you leave it at that, though. Pushing your argument to its logical conclusions, those naïve Europeans need a tough, no-nonsense sort of guy at the American helm if they are to understand American politics at all. What a bummer George Bush Junior cannot run once again!