Some Republicans Defect to Kerry's Camp

[reprehensor]

(Previously posted in LBN, this is for those who missed it. -r.)

Some Republicans Defect to Kerry's Camp

Ohio resident Bob Stewart says of President Bush: "He's been a world-class polarizer. I don't know if I can stomach four more years with him as president. He misled us into the war in Iraq and has mismanaged everything since."

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Stewart, 44, an insurance agent from Anderson Township near Cincinnati, voted for Bush in 2000 and is a registered Republican.

"I just have a gut feeling that Kerry can be trusted to make the right courageous decisions and will make a good president. He showed that with his heroism in Vietnam," he says.

Bush is "supposed to be a conservative and yet he's run up the biggest federal deficit in history. One thing that really turned me (away from Bush) as a lifelong Catholic ... was to see Bush go to the Vatican and try to get the pope to come down hard on Kerry for his stand on abortion. That is absolutely appalling."

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News too good not to post twice. :)

[floridaguy]

1. Definitely worth the second post

I'd never heard the part about the pope.
Was that documented that he actually did that?

[elperromagico]

2. Bush tried to persuade the Pope

to get cardinals in the US to take a more hardline stance on abortion, yes.

[JohnKleeb]

4. poor George

He should know that we Catholics arent stupid. BTW Kerry is polling higher among Catholics than Gore did. Kerry Republicans heh, we may hear that term in the future when discussing the great legacy of President John F Kerry.

[elperromagico]

3. If you want to have fun,

check out the message board for that story. It seems there are a few conservative Republicans who aren't coming home to roost in November.