FORMER REPUBLICAN SENATOR FOR KERRY "Frightened to death" of Bush

[intheflow]

This one from Kentucky, no less!


START OF STORY:

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."

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I have just turned 78. During my lifetime, we have sent 31,377,741 Americans to war, not including whatever will be the final figures for the Iraq fiasco. Of those, 502,722 died and 928,980 came home without legs, arms or what have you.

Those wars were to defend freedom throughout the free world from communism, dictators and tyrants. Now Americans are the aggressors — we start the wars, we blow up all the infrastructure in those countries, and then turn around and spend tax dollars denying our nation an excellent education system, medical and drug programs, and the list goes on. ...

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I am not enamored with John Kerry, but 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.

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

[yardwork]

1. Very good!

kick

[jacksonian]

2. Marlow Cook

Kentucky senator 1968-1975. Good stuff.

[Tsiyu]

3. The Brave Come out of Hiding

When some of those wusses in Congress today start growing spines, i will be impressed.

[Zorra]

4. Thank you. This is an excellent piece to send to intelligent conservative

voters. I sent it to an old friend of mine who used to be a somewhat "apolitical" liberal that got rich and now leans conservative, and is an undecided voter.

I think that a truly reasonable conservative will see the truth in what former Senator Cook says.

[Moderator]

5. Duplicate topic--Please continue discussion here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x80347