Memo to the undecided: Listen to your inner conservative

Whose going to give Kerry the Whitehouse? Republicans with the courage to admit that the GOP has floated free of its conservative moorings and into reactionary waters. There are a lot of them. As the prospect of 4 more years of Bush secrecy, cronyism, ham-handed terrorist-manufacturing foreign policy and government insolvency truly dawns on Republican leaders - the chads will fall for Kerry. Here's a partial list of Rebpublicans for Kerry, thanks to Republican Switchers. My prediction: common sense and common decency will rule the day on November 2.

John Eisenhower, lifelong Republican son of Republican President Dwight D. (Ike) Eisenhower --"Recent developments indicate that the current Republican Party leadership has confused confident leadership with hubris and arrogance."

Marshall Wittmann,
former McCain aide, Bull Moose Republican wants Kerry for President."But the Bush administration has betrayed the effort to create a new politics of national greatness in the aftermath of 9/11."

Clyde Prestowitz, Reagan administration veteran , explains that four years of Republican rule have put the country on the wrong track."I think that we are less safe today than we were three or four years ago. And I’ll tell you something else: I have recently had discussions with several former national security advisors -- people who were national security officials in former Republican administrations -- who have told me they feel the same way. They fear that the administration’s policies are further endangering and undermining the security of the United States."

William Milliken, former Repub. Gov. of Michigan will vote for Kerry: "The truth is that ... Bush does not speak for me or for many other moderate Republicans on a very broad cross section of issues."

Ballard Morton 50 year straight-ticket republican voter and son of the former national GOP chair Thurston Morton.

Anne Morton Kimberly, Ballard's aunt and the widow of five term Republican Congressman Rogers C.B. Morton, concurs.

Brent Scowcroft top security advisor to first President Bush criticizes George W.; calls Iraq war a "failing venture"

Charley Reese,a staunch conservative columnist writes: "Bush has the most dangerously simplistic view of the world of any president in my memory."

Robert L. Black,retired Republican judge from Ohio says "The record of this incumbent president is a history not only of repeated violations of ... our democracy, but of the core values of the Christian faith."

Russel E. Train, Nixon EPA Chief will vote for Kerry: "It's almost as if the motto of the (Bush) administration...is...polluter protection."

Elmer L. Anderson, (of course)
Republican ex-gov of Minnesota: "Kerry has ... far superior intellect and character than Bush. He speaks honestly to the American people, his ethics are unimpeachable and, clearly...he has far better credentials..."

Pete McCloskey, former Republican congressman: "In truth, John Kerry and John Edwards come far closer to the Republicanism of Teddy Roosevelt, Earl Warren, Barry Goldwater, George Bush the elder and, yes, even Richard Nixon, than does the present incumbent."

Kevin Phillips, a longtime Republican, a former Nixon aide and Republican strategist: "(The Bushes) display no real empathy for anyone who is not of their class."