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, in an opinion piece published in The Manchester Union Leader, September 28, 2004.

"The two 'Say No to Bush' signs in my yard say it all. The present Republican president has led us into an unjustified war -- based on misguided and blatantly false misrepresentations of the threat of weapons of mass destruction. The terror seat was Afghanistan. Iraq had no connection to these acts of terror and was not a serious threat to the United States, as this president claimed, and there was no relation, it's now obvious, to any serious weaponry. Although Saddam Hussein is a frightful tyrant, he posed no threat to the United States when we entered the war. George W. Bush's arrogant actions to jump into Iraq when he had no plan how to get out have alienated the United States from our most trusted allies and weakened us immeasurably around the world... This imperialistic, stubborn adherence to wrongful policies and known untruths by the Cheney-Bush administration -- and that's the accurate order -- has simply become more than I can stand."

-- Former Minnesota Governor Elmer Andersen, a Republican, endorsing Kerry in an opinion piece published in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, October 13, 2004. Andersen argued in the piece that, "I am more fearful for the state of this nation than I have ever been -- because this country is in the hands of an evil man: **** Cheney. It is eminently clear that it is he who is running the country, not George W. Bush."

"George W. Bush has come to embody a politics that is antithetical to almost any kind of thoughtful conservatism. His international policies have been based on the hopelessly naive belief that foreign peoples are eager to be liberated by American enemies -- a notion more grounded in Leon Trotsky's concept of global revolution than any sort of conservative statecraft."

-- Scott McConnell, executive editor, The American Conservative.

"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 the secret, they took it all the way to the Supreme Court."

-- Former U.S. Senator Marlow Cook, Republican from Kentucky, in an opinion piece that appeared in The Louisville Courier-Journal, October 20, 2004.

"My Republican Party is the party of Theodore Roosevelt, who fought to preserve our natural resources and environment. This president has pursued policies that will cause irreparable damage to our environmental laws that protect the air we breathe, the water we drink and the public lands we share with future generations."

-- Former Michigan Governor William Milliken, from a statement published in the Traverse City Record Eagle, October 17, 2004.

"As an environmentalist who served as chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, I know that this administration has turned environmental policy over to lobbyists for the oil, gas and mining interests. On the other hand, I know first-hand of your commitment to a more balanced approach to environmental policy -- one where we can have both jobs and profit for industry as well as clean air and water. There is no stronger evidence of this than your outstanding leadership and support in the restoration of the Florida Everglades. John, for each of these reasons I believe President Bush has failed our country and my party. Accordingly, I want you to know that when I go into the booth next Tuesday I am going to cast my vote for you."

-- Former U.S. Senator Bob Smith, Republican from New Hampshire, October 28, 2004.

"Nixon was a prince compared to these guys."

-- Former U.S. Representative Pete McCloskey, R-California, from an article in the Palo Alto Weekly, September 8, 2004. McCloskey, who is active with Republicans for Kerry, says of members of the Bush administration, "These people believe God has told them what to do. They've high jacked the Republican Party we once knew."

"The war is just a misbegotten thing that's spiraling down. It's a matter of conscience for me. After 9/11, the whole world was behind us. That's all gone now. That's been squandered. Now we've made the entire Muslim world hate us. And for what? For what?"



-- Former Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca, who campaigned for George W. Bush in 2000 and appeared in television advertisements for the Republican Party of Michigan that year. Iacocca, who complains that under Bush deficit spending is "getting out of hand," endorsing Kerry on June 24, 2004.

"In a dangerous epoch -- made more so by a president who sees the world in stark black and white because simplicity polls better and fits into sound bites -- John Kerry may seem out of place. He is, in fact, in exactly the right place at the right time to lead our country."

-- Tim Ashby, who served during the Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush administrations as director of the Office of Mexico and the Caribbean for the U.S. Commerce Department and acting deputy assistant Secretary of Commerce for the Western Hemisphere, endorsing Kerry in a Seattle Times, October 14, 2004.

" I have always been, and I still am, a registered Republican, but I shall enthusiastically vote for John Kerry for president on November 2... If the Bush administration stays in power four more years, it will pack the Supreme Court with neocons who reject the idea that the Constitution is a living document designed to protect the freedom of the citizens."

-- Anne Morton Kimberly, widow of former Republican National Committee chair Rogers C.B. Morton, Secretary of the Interior during the Nixon administration and Secretary of Commerce during the Ford administration, endorsing Kerry in a an opinion piece that appeared in the Louisville Courier-Journal, October 14, 2004.

"Mainstream Republicans believe in fiscal responsibility, internationalism, environmental protection, the rights of women, and putting middle-class families ahead of big business lobbyists. Moderate Republicans should not be asked to swallow the right-wing policies of George W. Bush."

-- Clay Myers, who was Oregon's Republican Secretary of State for 10 years and the state's Treasure, endorsing Kerry at a press conference for Oregon Republicans for Kerry, September 1, 2004.

"The current administration has run the largest deficits in U.S. history, incurring massive debts that our children and grandchildren will have to pay. Two and a half million people have lost their jobs; trillions have been wiped out of savings and retirement accounts. The income of Americans has declined two years in a row, the first time since the IRS began keeping records. George W. Bush will be the first president since Hoover to have a net job loss under his watch... President Bush wanted to be judged as the CEO president, it is time to say, 'you have failed, and you're fired."

-- William Rutherford, former State Treasurer of Oregon, endorsing Kerry as a press conference for Oregon Republicans for Kerry, September 1, 2004.

"I served 20 years in the Ohio General Assembly as Republican. People have asked me why I oppose George w. Bush for president. My first response is, 'He is incompetent.' His behavior, his bad judgment, his record, all demonstrate a failure as president. He certainly misled the country into a no-win war in Iraq. Following his preemptive invasion, he totally misjudged the consequences of his action. He made a bad situation worse, fomenting widespread terrorism, all done with a frightful loss of lives and money."

-- Former Ohio State Representative John Galbraith, a Republican legislator for 20 years, endorsing Kerry in a letter to The Toledo Blade, September 28, 2004.

" Before the current campaign, it might have been argued that at least in affirming the importance of faith and respecting those who profess it the administration had embraced traditional conservative views. But in the wake of the Swift Boat ads attacking John Kerry, even this argument can no longer be maintained. As an elder of the Presbyterian Church, I found that those ads were not at all in the Christian tradition. John McCain rightly condemned them as dishonest and dishonorable. The president should have, too. That he did not undermines his credibility on questions of faith.

Some say it's just politics. But that's the whole point. More is expected of people of faith than "just politics."

The fact is that the Bush administration might better be called radical or romantic or adventurist than conservative. And that's why real conservatives are leaning toward Kerry."

-- Clyde Prestowitz, counselor to the secretary of commerce in the Reagan administration and an elder of the Presbyterian Church, from "The Conservative Case for Kerry," published in the Providence Journal, October 15, 2004.

 

I would spin all that but, I would need sixty feet of starter cord and Arnolds' bicep.

 

Lee Iacocca? Good riddance. lol. Bob Smith, was a Republican by the (R) and that's it. I could go on and on but it's a waste of my time.

 

All that still doesn't change the fact that Kerry supports ripping a baby out of the womb feet first, up to it's neck, then sucking it's brains out so the skull will collapse - because the head is too large to pull the child out without collapsing the skull (they call this partial birth abortion - performed late in pregnancy). Since he votes against all abortion restrictions, I have to believe he's all for it. Even if he says he's 'personally opposed' to it, the fact that his party leadership supports it means it will continue to have support as long as that party has enough power to weigh in on this issue. There are plenty of other issues to go over...but after that one, who needs another reason to NOT vote for Kerry? I don't know why so many people/politicians avoid the abortion issue. Maybe they're ashamed to say they have no problem allowing such a barbaric practice to continue. Shame, shame...

What abortion looks like (graphic photos most people have never seen). Looks like a baby to me. Not sure why these folks have a cross near the babies and not sure how they got the babies...but I would assume they are about to get a proper burial. Keep in mind the site is of Catholic origins (I'm not Catholic, by the way).

http://www.priestsforlife.org/resources/dc/index.htm

http://www.priestsforlife.org/resour...ages/index.htm

 

I wish there was a little smilie that vomits, because thats how i feel when i hear another liberal support Kerry.

 

There you go buddy

 

"Kerry Position
John Kerry voted repeatedly against the Partial Birth Abortion Ban. He says that a health exception is necessary. Kerry spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter has stated that Kerry would support the ban if it included a "clear exception for life or health of women."

 

And conventional wisdom says that 'health of the woman' can be interpreted to be pretty much anything...mental or otherwise...up to the discretion of the doctor. That would be the loophole, so to speak. The way to go ahead and do any abortion you want...just call it a health issue for the mother.

I rarely like to mention abortion in public because it's a hot button issue...but I thought since we're on the brink of an election and it's a real issue, people should at least know what it looks like. You sure won't see what it looks like on TV. You'd think it would be nice to inform people as to what actually happens and what these 'fetus' look like. I would bet most people think it's simply a blob of tissue that's being removed (VERY early on, maybe), not something that looks exactly like a baby.

 

This assumption is based on conjecture.

What are your opinions on accelerating stem cell research?

 

Haven't given much thought to stem cell research...so I don't think I can argue that issue one way or the other without feeling like I don't know what I'm talking about.

 

arrbilly
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Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Beautiful British Columbia
Posts: 118



You should go read my post about the BRIT wh ois trying to get Kerry elected.

WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE, YOU CANUCK, TRYING TO INFLUENCE OUR ELECTIONS?

just worry about your country, Sooner or later it will be split into 2, the French with all the money and the rest of canada.

IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME before canada is absorbed into the USA.

THANK YOU THOUGH...
Non-citizens telling me how to vote pisses me off and I'm calling everyone I know to explain this to them and remind them to vote for GWB

Frickin canuck.. go build an igloo and hibernate!

 

Thanks for you honest response. Its refreshing.

 

I just love a hypocrite.
It's perfectly fine for the U.S. to stick it's nose in other countries business, but let anyone express they're concerns about something american, they're told "shut your hole and know your role" by a bunch of intolerant ditto-head ******** like the pissant above.

Everything in my original post was said by an American republican. I just posted it.
Deal with it twerp.

 

Just when this were gettin civil around here...
Another idiotic statement from a shub supporter.
Kinda late to the party aren't you?
You think that people from other countries that this country directly affects don't have an opinion on the matter?
Why you must be a relative of 'look the other way' Chamberlin in 1939.
The whole world was with us on 9/12, and now most are against our policies or should I say shrubs policies.
Does that tell you something?
Or is it the whole world is crazy, and shrub is sane.
Sheesh... wake up.

 

its pretty funny to see a bunch of guys talking about abortion when it really doesnt effect you any. Last i checked guys cant have babies unless something has changed recently. When you get a bunch of fat white politicians discussing whats best for women thats a bit of a conflict if you ask me. None of them will have to go through any of what a woman goes through in either keeping the child, giving it up for adoption, or aborting it. Ah well, lets see some scripture now on how its against god, i havent seen any of that in a few days. We need a smiley in flame suit to go along with the puking smiley.