Eisenhower on "Why I will vote for John Kerry for President"

Great piece...

The online edition of New Hampshire's daily newspaper
September 29, 2004 (Union Leader)


Another View:
Why I will vote for John Kerry for President
By JOHN EISENHOWER
Guest Commentary



THE Presidential election to be held this coming Nov. 2 will be one of extraordinary importance to the future of our nation. The outcome will determine whether this country will continue on the same path it has followed for the last 3½ years or whether it will return to a set of core domestic and foreign policy values that have been at the heart of what has made this country great.

Now more than ever, we voters will have to make cool judgments, unencumbered by habits of the past. Experts tell us that we tend to vote as our parents did or as we “always have.” We remained loyal to party labels. We cannot afford that luxury in the election of 2004. There are times when we must break with the past, and I believe this is one of them.

As son of a Republican President, Dwight D. Eisenhower, it is automatically expected by many that I am a Republican. For 50 years, through the election of 2000, I was. With the current administration’s decision to invade Iraq unilaterally, however, I changed my voter registration to independent, and barring some utterly unforeseen development, I intend to vote for the Democratic Presidential candidate, Sen. John Kerry.

The fact is that today’s “Republican” Party is one with which I am totally unfamiliar. To me, the word “Republican” has always been synonymous with the word “responsibility,” which has meant limiting our governmental obligations to those we can afford in human and financial terms. Today’s whopping budget deficit of some $440 billion does not meet that criterion...


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may win the SONS OF FORMER REPUB PRESIDENTS vote this year....JOHN EISENHOWER, RON REAGAN (I guess George H.W. Bush's son wont be voting for Kerry).....

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A big kick for John.........................

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It's reassuring to see Republicans like a life-long member such as Mr Eisenhower speak of the days long past when the Republicans were seen as responsible and trust-worthy and cared about all Americans, but when he thinks of the current party: "The Republicans used to be deeply concerned for the middle class and small business. Today’s Republican leadership, while not solely accountable for the loss of American jobs, encourages it with its tax code and heads us in the direction of a society of very rich and very poor"...very good to see more and more Republicans taking the right stand on where President Bush is taking us as a nation.

The true Republicans have been led astray have awoken and will not let this country fall to the way side because of one man's ambition for power and praise..I just hope there are enough to make a real difference and send that message to the current Republicans that they will not be misled again.


When one deceives others he is only deceiving himself