Please I need your help..........

[kori]

Come on people we have evidence that HELL HAS FROZEN OVER. These conservatives are rejecting the Gospel according to George. If we can get this out in the media and local forums we can turn this from a tight election to a rout. If someone here has contact with dems in power this would make a hell of a lot better commercial than eagles and ostriches or some Magic bus asking what makes George tick. We have conservatives REAL Republican Conservatives saying this country is in such bad shape WE MUST pull a lever for a liberal Senator from Massachusetts. I have never ever seen anything like it. I need your help spread this everywhere, add to it, I know there are tons more. I posted this list yesterday and got little response here. I posted it to FIVE local papers and have had very good response from Republicans. Many of them are as scared of Bush as we are but just thought they were out of step. Now we have their kind telling them HELL HAS FROZEN OVER. I can see it now a couple of well known Conservatives on TV supporting Kerry and tripping or swallowing hard on the word LIBERAL. We need to accept these Americans to our side thank them for their thoughtful Patriotism and turn this election from close to a rout. Please help. Take this list, change it, add to it do whatever but POST it everywhere you can and will someone call the DNC???

John Eisenhower:

Sen. Kerry, in whom I am willing to place my trust, has demonstrated that he is courageous, sober, competent, and concerned with fighting the dangers associated with the widening socio-economic gap in this country. I will vote for him enthusiastically.

I celebrate, along with other Americans, the diversity of opinion in this country. But let it be based on careful thought. I urge everyone, Republicans and Democrats alike, to avoid voting for a ticket merely because it carries the label of the party of one’s parents or of our own ingrained habits.

John Eisenhower, son of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, served on the White House staff between October 1958 and the end of the Eisenhower administration. From 1961 to 1964 he assisted his father in writing “The White House Years,” his Presidential memoirs. He served as American ambassador to Belgium between 1969 and 1971. He is the author of nine books, largely on military subjects

http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showa.html?article=44657

Former Republican Gov. of Michigan William Milliken:

William Milliken endorsed Democratic Sen. John Kerry for president on Monday, saying President Bush has pursued policies "pandering to the extreme right wing."

Milliken, governor from 1969-82, accused the Bush administration of rushing into the Iraq war, pushing tax cuts that benefit the rich and blocking meaningful stem-cell research.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041018/ap_on_el_pr/kerry_gop_endorsement&cid=694&ncid=1963&sid=96378798

From California Republican Congressman Pete McCloskey

"Ending secrecy and bringing truth and honesty back to the White House are reasons enough to elect Kerry and Edwards."

http://inprogress.typepad.com/republicanswitchers/

Former Minnesota Governor Elmer L. Anderson

This imperialistic, stubborn adherence to wrongful policies and known untruths by the Cheney-Bush administration -- and that's the accurate order -- has simply become more than I can stand.

http://inprogress.typepad.com/republicanswitchers/

Former Republican Congressman from Georgia Bob Barr:

Throughout my own presidential voting history, the choices have rarely, if ever, been agonizing. Nixon vs. McGovern? Carter vs. Reagan? Reagan-Mondale? Dukakis, a Massachusetts liberal? Clinton? Al Gore? Ah, the good ol' days. Each of those races presented clear choices, easily resolved.

Now we have the election of 2004. For the first time in my voting life, the choice in the race for president isn't so clear And, among true conservatives, I'm not alone.

Bush's problem is that true conservatives remember their history. They recall that in recent years when the nation enjoyed the fruits of actual conservative fiscal and security policies, a Democrat occupied the White House and Congress was controlled by a Republican majority that actually fought for a substantive conservative agenda.

http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/2004-10-07/news_flankingaction.html

Former White House Counsel John Dean

"Clearly, it is an impeachable offense," he says. "I think the case is overwhelming that these people presented false information to the Congress and to the American people."

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20030606.html

Staunch conservative Columnist Charley Reese

I will swallow a lot of petty policy differences...to get a man in the White House with brains enough not to blow up the world and us with it.

http://inprogress.typepad.com/republicanswitchers/

Scott McConnell, editor of the Conservative Magazine

George W. Bush has come to embody a politics that is antithetical to almost any kind of thoughtful conservatism. His international policies have been based on the hopelessly naïve belief that foreign peoples are eager to be liberated by American armies—a notion more grounded in Leon Trotsky’s concept of global revolution than any sort of conservative statecraft. His immigration policies—temporarily put on hold while he runs for re-election—are just as extreme. A re-elected President Bush would be committed to bringing in millions of low-wage immigrants to do jobs Americans “won’t do.” This election is all about George W. Bush, and those issues are enough to render him unworthy of any conservative support.

http://www.amconmag.com/2004_11_08/cover1.html

Orlando Sentinal's first endorsement for a Democrat for President in 40 years:

Four years ago, the Orlando Sentinel endorsed Republican George W. Bush for president based on our trust in him to unite America. We expected him to forge bipartisan solutions to problems while keeping this nation secure and fiscally sound.

This president has utterly failed to fulfill our expectations. We turn now to his Democratic challenger, Sen. John Kerry, with the belief that he is more likely to meet the hopes we once held for Mr. Bush.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/orl-edped124102404oct24,0,6815713.story?coll=orl-home-headlines

There are many more prominent Republicans switching. I can not remember this level of defection of known party supporters, not even with the Reagan Democrats.

For more information check out these sites:

http://inprogress.typepad.com/republicanswitchers/

http://www.errolmorris.com/html/election04/election04_main.html

http://www.republicansforkerry.org/

http://www.republicansforkerry04.org/

http://www.johnkerry.com/communities/republica

[kori]

1. please or am i nuts?

[Unstuck In Time]

2. I think it's a good message to get out there.

Genuine conservatives need to know that we have a secret ballot system in this country for a reason. In the privacy of the voting booth, they can vote as conscience guides them.

[karlrschneider]

3. Good info, but you won't get a lot of replies 'cause we pretty much know

all this. Please don't get me wrong, just saying it's a bit like preaching to the choir, knowwhatimean? :D
Good to have you here. :toast: