Subject: Fw: Some Conservatives Coming out for Kerry ( Forwarded by the Michelsons) (fwd)

Maybe this is something to chew on. ??????????

Subject: Some Conservatives coming out for Kerry > > Charlie Reese was always one of the most far right voices on the > Orlando Sentinel editorial board over the years. He retired a few > years ago. But now and then, he showed a very healthy streak of > independent or Libertarian point of view and it's good to see that > coming through here. Can't be good for GW at all. > >> >> This article is really surprising as few columnists are more >> conservative than Charlie Reese. He is affiliated >> with King syndicate and this article was published on the following >> website: http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese74.html

>> Vote For A Man, Not A Puppet >> >> Americans should realize that if they vote for President Bush's >> re-election, they are really 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. >> >> I have sadly come to the conclusion that President Bush is merely a >> frontman, an empty suit, who is manipulated by the people in his >> administration. Bush has the most dangerously simplistic view of the >> world of any president in my memory. >> >> It's no wonder the president avoids press conferences like the >> plague. Take away his cue cards and he can barely talk. Americans >> should be embarrassed that an Arab king (Abdullah of Jordan) spoke more >> fluently and articulately in English than our own president at their joint press >> conference recently. >> >> John Kerry is at least an educated man, well-read, who knows how to >> think and who knows that the world is a great deal more complex than >> Bush's comic-book world of American heroes and foreign evildoers. It's >> unfortunate that in our poorly educated country, Kerry's very intelligence and >> refusal to adopt simplistic slogans might doom his presidential election >> efforts. >> >> But Thomas Jefferson said it well, as he did so often, when he >> observed that people who expect to be ignorant and free expect what never was and never will be. >> >> People who think of themselves as conservatives will really display >> their stupidity, as I did in the last election, by voting for Bush. >> Bush is as far from being a conservative as you can get. Well, he fooled me >> once, but he won't fool me twice. >> >> It is not at all conservative to balloon government spending, to >> vastly increase the power of government, to show contempt for the >> Constitution and the rule of law, or to tell people that foreign >> outsourcing of American jobs is good for them, that giant fiscal and trade >> deficits don't matter, and that people should not know what their government >> is doing. Bush is the most prone-to-classify, the most secretive >> president in the 20th century. His administration leans dangerously toward the >> authoritarian. >> >> It's no wonder that the Justice Department has convicted a few >> Arab-Americans of supporting terrorism. What would you do if you >> found yourself arrested and a federal prosecutor whispers in your >> ear that either you can plea-bargain this or the president will designate you >> an enemy combatant and you'll be held incommunicado for the duration? >> >> This election really is important, not only for domestic reasons, but >> because Bush's foreign policy has been a dangerous disaster. He's >> almost restarted the Cold War with Russia and the nuclear arms race. >> America is not only hated in the Middle East, but it has few friends >> anywhere in the world thanks to the arrogance and ineptness of the >> Bush administration. >> >> Don't forget, a scientific poll of Europeans found us, Israel, North >> Korea and Iran as the greatest threats to world peace. >> >> I will swallow a lot of petty policy differences with Kerry to get a >> man in the White House with brains enough not to blow up the world >> and us with it. >> >> Go to Kerry's Web site (www.johnkerry.com) and read some of the >> magazine profiles on him. >> >> You'll find that there is a great deal more to Kerry than the GOP >> attack dogs would have you believe. >> >> Besides, 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 people has a sobering effect on a man and dispels >> all illusions about war. >> >> >> > -- > Curtis Michelson >
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