Wingnut Columnist (REESE) *NOT* Backing Shrub Now

[UTUSN]

This is via FoB Liz SMITH, "the only Dem at the NY Post" (the way O'REILLY called David BROOKS, "one of only TWO" op-ed wingnuts at the NYT.

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http://www.nypost.com/gossip/liz.htm

WHEN MAN bites dog, it's still a big news story — isn't it? Well, here's one of those.

The very conservative columnist Charley Reese of the Orlando Sentinel is advising his readers to "Vote for a Man, Not a Puppet." Charley says if we vote for President Bush's re-election, we'll really be voting for "the architects of war — Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and the rest of that cabal of neoconservative ideologues and their corporate backers." (Why did he leave John Ashcroft off this list?)

Reese now sees George Bush, the man he joyfully voted for in 2000, as an "empty suit who is manipulated by the people in his administration." Reese adds this damning phrase: "Bush has the most dangerously simplistic view of the world of any president in my memory."

I don't often agree with conservatives, but I agree with Charley Reese. He isn't all that enthusiastic about Sen. John Kerry, but he ends by saying, "It would be fun to have a president who plays hockey, windsurfs, rides motorcycles, plays the guitar, writes poetry and speaks French. It would be good to have a man in the White House who has killed people face-to-face. Killing has a sobering effect on a man and dispels all illusions about war."

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[DinahMoeHum]

1. Charley Reese hasn't been a wingnut for some time now. . .

since at least over a year ago. He's more the libertarian conservative type.

You can also get his columns at www.antiwar.com


:bounce:

[theivoryqueen]

2. double wow

maybe other fence-sitters will echo sentiment

[Boomer]

3. Reese isn't a wing-nut

Yes, he's a conservative on many issues, and I don't always agree with him, but Reese is on my list of weekly must-reads. His stands are principled, his arguments cogent, and he is possessed of a refreshing common-sense candor. Even when I violently disagree with his opinions, I find that I can respect his views and understand how he reached them. He sees life through the lens of his generation, his region and his social class, but then so do we all.

What many people tend to miss is that Bush is NOT a true conservative. But men like Reese are not fooled and they are calling the president out on his deceptions.

-- Boomer