A FORMER REPUBLICAN SENATOR FOR KERRY 'Frightened to Death of Bush'

[takumi]

http://www.courier-journal.com/cjextra/editorials/2004/10/20/oped-marlow1020-8060.html

I shall cast my vote for John Kerry come Nov 2.

I have been, and will continue to be, a Republican. But when we as a party send the wrong person to the White House, then it is our responsibility to send him home if our nation suffers as a result of his actions. I fall in the category of good conservative thinkers, like George F. Will, for instance, who wrote: "This administration cannot be trusted to govern if it cannot be counted on to think and having thought, to have second thoughts."

I say, well done George Will, or, even better, from the mouth of the numero uno of conservatives, William F. Buckley Jr.: "If I knew then what I know now about what kind of situation we would be in, I would have opposed the war."

First, let's talk about George Bush's moral standards.

In 2000, to defeat Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. — a man who was shot down in Vietnam and imprisoned for over five years — they used Carl Rove's "East Texas special." They started the rumor that he was gay,

[Jack_Dawson]

1. Better pull Condi off the campaign trail to trash him...

Oops...that would be political. Nevermind.

[GOPBasher]

2. So many Republicans are jumping on Kerry's ship.

No wonder why, with the staggering deficits Bush is piling up and sending down to the next generations.

[MISSDem]

3. Good article and nominated for

front page.

[Jokinomx]

4. Thanks for the link takumi!!

I found it very interesting.

:toast:

[takumi]

5. You are always welcome!

[Laelth]

6. Great essay.

Thanks for the link. Republicans are usually as thick as thieves and lock-step in support of their front man. Dissention in the ranks is a rare treat.

I want to smell a Kerry landslide in the air, but I refuse to count the chickens before they hatch.

GOTV! :dem:

-Laelth

[coreystone]

7. Unless These "critiques" of the * Administration get into the ...

"mainstream media", they don't really mean very much. Has anyone seen Cook or anyone else being reported by the media?????:kick:

[6th Borough]

8. "...if we are indeed the party of Lincoln...(quoting the author)"

...I would welcome them back into the realm of sanity-based government. Of course, sanity has been replaced by faith, blind faith; faith in the party hierarchy, faith in winning at all costs, faith in fear, faith in lies and a distrust of truth.

Great article, but this guy should (and perhaps does) know better coming from Kentucky; he served from '68-'74; the peak of the "Southern Strategy".

Caveat: I admit that I don't know if Kentucky was considered as "Southern" back then.

[bermudat]

9. Great article.

I knew there had to be some old fashioned repugnantcans somewhere. Didn't expect Kentucky.

[LiberalAndProud]

10. Just as I thought. Thinking people are voting for Kerry.

My favorite part:

I am frightened to death of George Bush. I fear a secret government. I abhor a government that refuses to supply the Congress with requested information. I am against a government that refuses to tell the country with whom the leaders of our country sat down and determined our energy policy, and to prove how much they want to keep that secret, they took it all the way to the Supreme Court.

[Lostnote03]

11. KY is in PLAY!!!!(n/t)

[jbfam4]

13. Bunning must be very sick

http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2004/10/22ky/A1-senate1022-8036.html

Bunning unaware of Iraq story

Bunning gets all his news from FAUX

[Say_What]

12. Excellent points!!

It would be interesting to be a fly on the wall of the voting booth to see how many Repubs do exactly as this man is gonna do. My guess is that the numbers of pubbies voting for Kerry will be high.

From the article:

...We are broke. Our government is borrowing a billion dollars a day. They are now borrowing from the government pension program, for apparently they have gotten as much out of the Social Security Trust as it can take. Our House and Senate announce weekly grants for every kind of favorite local programs to save legislative seats, and it's all borrowed money.

If you listened to the President confirming the value of our war with Iraq, you heard him say, "If no weapons of mass destruction were found, at least we know we have stopped his future distribution of same to terrorists." If that is his justification, then, if he is re-elected our next war will be against Iran and at the same time North Korea, for indeed they have weapons of mass destruction, nuclear weapons, which they have readily admitted. Those wars will require a draft of men and women. ...

[jbfam4]

14. excellent post

hope to see it on the home page....it got my vote.