Even Republicans Fear Bush - The Nation

[rndmprsn]

http://www.thenation.com/thebeat/index.mhtml?bid=1&pid=1960

please read the entire article...i've read about a few of the endorsements, but was unaware of many...there are republicans of real conscience out there...these are the people that kerry must reach across the aisle and work with to "bind up the nation's wounds".

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If the United States had major media that covered politics, as opposed to the political spin generated by the Bush White House and the official campaigns of both the Republican president and his Democratic challenger, one of the most fascinating, and significant, stories of the 2004 election season would be the abandonment of the Bush reelection effort by senior Republicans...

...Former Republican members of the U.S. Senate and House, governors, ambassadors, aides to GOP Presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush have explicitly endorsed the campaign of Democrat John Kerry. For many of these lifelong Republicans, their vote for Kerry will be a first Democratic vote. But, in most cases, it will not be a hesitant one.

Angered by the Bush administration's mismanagement of the war in Iraq, record deficits, assaults on the environment and secrecy, the renegade partisans tend to echo the words of former Minnesota Governor Elmer Andersen, who says that, "Although I am a longtime Republican, it is time to make a statement, and it is this: Vote for Kerry-Edwards, I implore you, on November 2."

...Here are a dozen examples of what Republicans are saying about George W. Bush -- and John Kerry -- as the November 2 election approaches:

"As son of a Republican president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, it is automatically expected by many that I am a Republican. For 50 years, through the election of 2000, I was. With the current administration's decision to invade Iraq unilaterally, however, I changed my voter registration to independent, and barring some utterly unforeseen development, I intend to vote for the Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. John Kerry." -- Ambassador John Eisenhower, endorsing Kerry in an opinion piece published in The Manchester Union Leader, September 28, 2004...

[aquart]

1. For four years I have said he must be destroyed by his own.

And he will be.

[PurityOfEssence]

3. That's what happened to Nixon in the end.

Even if Junior can pull it off, there's trouble a-brewin' after the election.

[Cha]

4. bush is not "pulling it off".

Going down like the loser that he is.

[Steelangel]

2. **kick**

[missouri dem]

5. I live in a very republican area and there are many republicans that

I respect. They are not the Taliban wing of the party and they are

disgusted with the take over by the wingnuts. This election will be a

watershed. In 1980 we lost regan Democrats to the republicans. This

will be the year of the Kerry republicans.