A WarHawk Flies The Coop (repuke leaving repuke party)

[MoonAndSun]

this is from a link from: <http://counterspin.blogspot.com/>



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


snip>>> 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.





I thought this might give us all a chuckle, just to lighten the mood today! :hi:

[lancdem]

1. Thanks for posting this

Love the last line!

[displacedtexan]

2. My favorite part

More importantly, though, half the things I wrote back then were devoid of actual substance. I didn't have ideas. I had suggestions. I had templates. I applied them to whatever topic was hot, and voila! I had an article. Which is a fine way to make a deadline, sure, but it's really not so fulfilling. Take, for example, this gem from my February 25, 2003, article, "Time, Like France, Is Not On Our Side": "You know, it's not that I've ever taken things for granted, but my deep appreciation for American life only really settled in on September 11th. The feeling has yet to let me go."




Typical.

[cprise]

6. He's like a 70s leftist hipster

Applying his perfidious templates to everything, and projecting all of his own worst qualities onto others.

The conservatives are the new 'hip'... they can shit ice cream and people will lap it up.

Interesting bit of self-recognition he's displaying there.

[NJCher]

3. looked over his site

He's a true blue repuke but one that doesn't march lockstep.


Cher

[cprise]

4. Too bad it's a gun-nut rant

The Republicans can't protect me, so all politicians and all government is the same.

Time to get my gun.

Or Not.

5. LOL!

"Ted Kennedy said of the war on Iraq last September, "There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas." I don't like Ted Kennedy, and I don't want to believe him. There's no denying, though, that a good many members of the Bush administration had been advocating this war for years -- indeed, since before the "new Pearl Harbor" (i.e., 9/11) that they suggested would push forward their plan. I want to believe their intentions were genuine. I want to "have faith," as I said before. But I see the lack of WMDs in Iraq, and I see Bush's reluctance to so much as address the issue, and it starts to remind me of another George -- this one Costanza -- who once drove his in-laws to his house in the Hamptons despite knowing full well he had no house there."

[sendero]

8. LOL LOL

Bush* = George Constanza. Now that's a good comparison :)

[marie123]

7. I hear ya

and welcome. I am you, what a disappointment Bush is as i truly believed in him too. Now I just wonder what happened to my plentiful country.



I will have no problems voting Dean, not sure if I can stomach Kerry.

[Bandit]

9. You wonder what happened?

You ever listen to Rush? You ever listen to all the hatred dished out by the right-wingers eg. Ann Coulter, Mike Savage, Rush Limbaugh, G Gordon Liddy, Hannity, Trent Lott, the list is endless and you wonder what happened to your lovely country? I'm glad you have started to do some actual thinking but you did help to foist this Cabal upon America. I am not willing to forget but I am willing to forgive. This really was a wonderful country at one time but then the Republicans took over. Money rules every topic with them. I welcome you to the side of truth and justice and would love to hear some of your other opinions about our country and what could make it a better place.

[calimary]

10. Welcome - not only to DU, but also - welcome into the light.

It is AWFUL to get your heart broken. AWFUL. NO sarcasm here, either. Dear marie123, it is MOST encouraging to people like me to read posts like yours.

I myself never believed in him. When I watched him on the campaign trail and realized I was going to have to take him seriously, I was not at all impressed. When I dug into him a little, and read and researched what I could (since the news media was NOT providing anything), I found even less to be impressed about.

You were NOT well-served by our media. And I say this as a former reporter who spent 25 years in the news business. You were taken in and used and played for a fool. And it wasn't just you, either. MOST OF AMERICA has been played like a violin by these people and the media they've intimidated into rolling over. The great Helen Thomas, the Dean of the White House press corps, has said of her colleagues that they all more or less allowed themselves to be put to sleep on 9/11. They allowed themselves to become fearful and docile, and decided it wasn't right or good to question this regime. They were fueled by the demagogues and idealogues who impugned their patriotism if they were to question anything.

But America was built on questions. If we did not question what the British monarchy was doing to us as colonists, we would never have broken away and become independent. THAT is the key, and the key word. INDEPENDENT. Which we aren't.

Well, I take that back. You are independent, now. Those of us at DU are fiercely independent, at least, of the thinking of this regime. We welcome you and embrace you!!! Bless your heart!!! You'll find rants, frustration, outrage, and LOTS of information here on which to base some of your changing and evolving conclusions. Lots of links provided by people here will bring you facts, galore, that you might appreciate.

I celebrate your awakening, and welcome you as a sister. You're not alone out there, and your presence and testimony gladdens our hearts and helps make us stronger and one step closer to taking our country back. I just hope there are enough others like you who have stepped in out of the fog, the fraud, the smoke, and the mirrors.

If you like Dean, great! If you're wondering how you can stomach somebody else, by all means wonder. And then seek out the opinions and links and other details you'll find here, galore, about all the candidates. They all seem equally worthy of rescuing us from the wreckage that bush has made of our country, our national spirit and resolve, our economy, our constitution, our treasury, our privacy, our rights, our pride, and our friendships with others with whom we share this planet, and over whom we DO NOT AND SHOULD NOT RULE. And keep in mind that whoever replaces bush will provoke GLOBAL sighs of relief. Whoever replaces bush will surround himself with those whose agenda is not exploitation and empire, greed and character assassination, lies and theft, piracy, croneyism, and war profiteering.

Bless you. Welcome!

MUCH love,

calimary

edited for spelling