So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish: A Warhawk Flies the Coop

[On the Road]

by Jonathan David Morris

I start on a personal note. I would like for the record to show that, today, I formally disavow the Republican Party as well as my past support for the Second Gulf War.

Now, let me be frank: This is something I didn't see coming a year ago. I only saw things through a prism of GOP allegiance back then. I'm a year older now -- a year wiser, I suppose. It shouldn't be easy for an op-ed writer to admit when he's wrong. But I was. And it is. And in light of George Bush's latest State of the Union, saying goodbye to the Republican Party is the easiest thing I've done in quite some time. This doesn't mean I've gone Democrat, though. Quite the contrary. But let me explain.

There was a time not long ago when the president could do no wrong in my eyes, a time when I was willing to write, as I did in September '02, "I have faith in President Bush." That time ended last summer, however, when I finally got fed up with his fiscally ridiculous ways. Indeed, John Kerry calls the Bush White House "reckless," and when it comes to our wallets I tend to agree. And while I never thought I'd say this, the way Bush spends -- and spends, and spends -- I'm beginning to miss Bill Clinton.

http://mensnewsdaily.com/archive/m-n/morris/2004/morris012704.htm

Fascinating mea culpa from a disillusioned neo-con -- or at least neo-con booster.

[indepat]

1. Would wholly reckless with respect to, just for starters: the economy,

the environment, fiscal and tax policies, the solvency of the social security and Medicare systems, the value of the dollar, international law, constitutional protections, the job market and workers' rights, international goodwill, our infrastructure, be descriptive?

[On the Road]

3. Well, He Doesn't Get All of It Yet

but he will in a few years. His worldview just changed. He's a newborn trying to make sense of the blooming, buzzing confusion.

Five years from now, if the author is not a core Democrat, he'll at least be a fighter against the neo-con red-ink wing of the GOP.

[LeftCoast]

2. Very interesting op-ed!

More honesty than I've come to expect from the "Media"-ocracy. :)

[Jackpine Radical]

4. And may he take a 10 million who think like him

with him out the door.

[On the Road]

5. Dupe

Sorry, EarlG -- it was from such an obscure source that I didn't check.