Wow. Republican former Kentucky Senator DESTROYS Bush

[tomfodw]

Wow. Read all of this.

A FORMER REPUBLICAN SENATOR FOR KERRY

'Frightened to death' of Bush

By Marlow W. Cook
Special to The Courier-Journal

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

:::snip:::

Those of you who are fiscal conservatives and abhor our staggering debt, tell your conservative friends, "Vote for Kerry," because without Bush to control the Congress, the first thing lawmakers will demand Kerry do is balance the budget.

The wonderful thing about this country is its gift of citizenship, then it's freedom to register as one sees fit. For me, as a Republican, I feel that when my party gives me a dangerous leader who flouts the truth, takes the country into an undeclared war and then adds a war on terrorism to it without debate by the Congress, we have a duty to rid ourselves of those who are taking our country on a perilous ride in the wrong direction.

If we are indeed the party of Lincoln (I paraphrase his words), a president who deems to have the right to declare war at will without the consent of the Congress is a president who far exceeds his power under our Constitution.

I will take John Kerry for four years to put our country on the right path.

The writer, a Republican formerly of Louisville, was Jefferson County judge from 1962-1968 and U.S. senator from Kentucky from 1968-1975.

I found this on Rising Hegemon. I haven't seen it referred to anywhere else. Wow. Just - wow.

[WI_DEM]

1. Just the latest moderate republican to come out for Kerry

[Killarney]

2. I am loving these!

[hippiechick]

3. kick

Oh, Dear Sanity, where have you been ??


:hippie:

[LynnTheDem]

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

"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."

Sure are a lot of former and current Republicans voting against bush & for Kerry. :)

[realFedUp]

5. heartened to see there are still some Republicans who love their country

and recognize what Bush Inc. is doing
is hurting us.

[Momgonepostal]

6. Great piece!

[tomfodw]

7. Only 1 thing, the Republicans have NOT been...

...the "Party of Lincoln" since at least 1972, and maybe since 1932. But that's a nitpick, I suppose.

Great article. Needs to be spread much much wider.

[NNadir]

8. Man, you got that right. These Neocon guys are Confederates.

[tomfodw]

9. Or cynical manipulators of Confederates

Other than John Ashcroft, who gave an interview once to a despicable rag called Southern Partisan magazine, which openly mourns the demise of the Old South and Jim Crow and prints racist and anti-Semitic filth.

But most of the Republicans, although they are not necessarily racists themselves, don't have a problem pandering for the votes of racists. In a way, that kind of cynical manipulation is even worse than if they were racists themselves.

[forgethell]

10. This is a good thing.

I wish all the RINOs would come to the Democratic Party, and all the DINOs would go to the Republicans. That way there wouldn't be this constant tendency to santch each other's Senators and copngressmen, people would know what they were voting for when they voted for Senator X.

I think this would also help minimize the tendency to pander to the "center". Let the center form their own party.

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[pacalo]

12. "The religious right can have him with those moral standards."

[Roland99]

13. Great to see I'm not the only KY Republican for Kerry!!

[Fed Up]

14. Republicans like this guy are ok in my book.

Imagine, fiscal responsibility - what a notion coming from a Republican.

Like they say, if record deficits are conservative, then I'm a liberal.

It's nice to see that the GOP is not all bottom feeders. This guy and John Eisenhower are brave men. When the Chimposter loses, they will be cast to the wolves.

[liberalpragmatist]

15. So, add his name to Gov. Milliken's...

... plus Lincoln Chafee's and a few others (fmr. Sen. Charles Mathias, Sen. Ed Brooke, Fmr. Gov. Elmer Anderson) plenty of former Republican officeholders.

I'll take any of those guys over Zell, any day.

[MsTryska]

16. you know what?

i bet dubya's grand-daddy - Prescott Bush, wouldn't even vote for him this time around.