Republican letter to my local paper bashing bush today

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Bush has taken us to our lowest point

A recent slogan caught my eye, and I can only hope it proves to be true. "Just like father, just like son, one term in office, then you’re done!"

Forty-four years ago, when I voted in my first election, I was a registered Republican, and I remain one today. The only difference is that today the Republican Party is as corrupt as any in history. "Little" George, "Field-Marshall" Rumsfeld, "Preacher" Ashcroft and "Haliburton" Cheney have taken America to its lowest ebb.

Wrapping himself in the American flag, Bush embarked on a war for profit in Iraq, hiding behind the lie that Saddam Hussein was manufacturing weapons of mass destruction. Our country had just suffered its first attack since Pearl Harbor and so believed this propaganda.

Today, we are embroiled in a "no-win" situation that’s daily taking a heavy toll in young American lives. Did we not learn anything in Vietnam?

If you have a conscience when you enter the polling place in November, send Bush and the Republican majority in Congress to a place where they can no longer cause such misery for our nation.

I know where I’d like to send them!

John Wesley Ray
Wellston, Ohio



welcome aboard, John

http://www.herald-dispatch.com/letterstoeditor.html

[GOPBasher]

1. Awesome!!

It's nice to know some Republicans still have some sense left.

[Richardo]

5. And from Ohio too!

Yes!! :thumbsup:

[GOPBasher]

14. Good point.

I start drooling when I think about taking Ohio. That would definitely win it for us.

[blm]

2. Whoa...That's as TOUGH a letter as I've seen from the public.

It hits the perfect tone to appeal to honest Republicans and Independents concerned with good governance and not partisanship.

[Lucky Luciano]

3. I'm similar to the writer of this letter.

I am not particularly liberal myself, but I am so incredibly opposed to b*sh. I am the swing vote. The writer is the swing vote. I would vote for a dead rat carcass over b*sh any day. That is what drew me to this site - after the Freepers kicked me off of theirs and told me to go here (within minutes). I still read their site a lot though - I have a kind of "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer" mentality.

[Richardo]

4. Welcome to DU, Lucky Luciano...

We welcome the swing voter!

[Lucky Luciano]

11. Thanks.

The thing that makes me less liberal is that I want major welfare reform (Within reason - I am very reasonable, but most welfare could be workfare I am sure), I am not too pleased with affirmative action, and I am very pro-business.

While I am very pro-business, I am not pro-crime - this is one reason I don't like b*sh, along with a myriad of other reasons - including his flip-flopping on the reasons for invading Iraq (or just invading Iraq at all - I was opposed to this from the start). I hate republicans who call democrats tax and spend, and then along with bush, make the most obscenely illogical budget in history. I hate the "Patriot" Act for obvious reasons. I could continue....Maybe I should not read about politics - depresses me.

[blm]

6. Here's to real good governance Republicans.

Your vote and those of others like you will help rid this nation of the Bush Family Evil Empire.

[tom_paine]

9. Ugh! I can't stand listening to their Nazi banter

Just read "Jew" for "liberal" and "Germany" for "America" and you'll swiftly see what I mean, Lucky Luciano.

Say, didn't you die in 1962 of a heart-attack while reviewing a screenplay about your life?

:evilgrin:

Welcome to DU, Fellow Mob Enthusiast!

:toast: :toast: :party:

Come on and and have a :beer:

[Lucky Luciano]

18. I know full well what you mean, but I wish it were not so!

I'll gladly have a :beer:

I started the whole mob theme with my handles after getting kicked off of Free Republic with:

Lucifer Himself :evilgrin: - allright, I was the devil here!
Luciano The Lucky - Lucky Luciano was taken
Dutch Schultz
Meyer Lansky
Bugs Moran
Joe Bonanno
Bugsy Siegall
The Dapper Don
The Dapper Don II

You could probably do a search for "Zot!" and find a few of my posts.

Cheers

[Jacobin]

10. Welcome

:hi:

What amazes me is that some republicans still think Bush is 'conservative'. He's quite radical in almost every respect. Additionally, he is obviously completely incapable of making intelligent decisions and is led around on a leash by Cheney, Feith, Rumsfeld, et al while the country plunges off a cliff.

He, of course, with "god whispering in his ear" believes he is doing a great job, since he is not connected to reality.

We really have a loser in the WH and he needs to go back to Crawford.

[Bandit]

16. I take that to mean we are the enemy

Well all we ask is that you don't lie and use logic and critical thinking. The truth is not your enemy.

[Lucky Luciano]

17. Don't be so sensitive.

I always use logic and critical thinking.

I hate b*sh because of:

1) The war on so many different levels - I was against it from the start.
2) I oppose the tax cut because we have an out of control deficit/debt. If the US Gov't were a stock I would seriously consider taking a short position with all this debt.
3) The "Patriot" Act makes me want to vomit - even calling it the "Patriot" Act is a despicable act of marketing.
4) I am pro-choice, although it is a lower priority issue with me than the foriegn policy/debt issues.
5) I don't give a flying fuck if a couple of gay people want to get married. It certainly is none of my concern, so why bother two people that want to get married. The whole constitutional amendment issue with it would utterly trivialize the constitution too. The issue is also a lower priority with me though.
6) Opening of the borders - this will hurt many blue-collar Americans while b*sh panders to the Latin vote.
7) I despise ashc**ft and the rest of the Christian Taliban.

I could go on...

We are on the same page in many ways...no need to worry about me!

[MsUnderstood]

7. It sums up what my boss says

"Anyone who votes for Bush in 2004 has a serious character flaw".

[Malva Zebrina]

8. this is amazing and it is also interesting that the lives lost

that are grieved for are the American lives. That tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi lives were murdered by this evil man, George Bush, is not mentioned much nor are they "grieved" for by many Americans.

[iverglas]

15. indeed

The letter-writer asks:

"Did we not learn anything in Vietnam?"

As far as I can tell, the answer is that the US did not learn a damned in Vietnam. And that includes the letter writer.

The Vietnam war ended not because it was an atrocity of imperialism and the people whose government was responsible for it rose up in outrage at what was being done to other human beings in their name, but because the people who supported it didn't have the backbone to go through with it.

The sentiments expressed by the letter writer (and not infrequently in posts on this board) look very similar indeed.

The overweening arrogance and sense of entitlement felt by those people, their lack of regard for anyone else in the world, remains intact. And the rest of the world is still in danger from them, if not in 2005, then whenever next they want something that someone else has, or feel their wholly illegitimate interests threatened. Come to think of it, a fair bit of the rest of the world is already suffering under the weight of the military and economic tyranny of the US, they just don't get mentioned much on CNN.

Take their votes. Trust them not an inch, and pander to them at your own risk, I'd say.

.

[David Zephyr]

12. Thanks!

Great letter. Thanks for passing it along.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

13. i love the nick "Field-Marshall" Rumsfeld

reminds me of a character from Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator"