September 30th, 2004
Here are some lines from John Eisenhower’s, son of president Eisenhower, endorsement of Mr. Kerry, that are simply remarkable:
“The fact is that today’s “Republican” Party is one with which I am totally unfamiliar.”
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“In 1960, President Eisenhower told the Republican convention, “If ever we put any other value above (our) liberty, and above principle, we shall lose both.” I would appreciate hearing such warnings from the Republican Party of today.
The Republican Party I used to know placed heavy emphasis on fiscal responsibility, which included balancing the budget whenever the state of the economy allowed it to do so. The Eisenhower administration accomplished that difficult task three times during its eight years in office. It did not attain that remarkable achievement by cutting taxes for the rich. Republicans disliked taxes, of course, but the party accepted them as a necessary means of keep the nation’s financial structure sound.”
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“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.”
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http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showa.html?article=44657
September 29th, 2004
This time from President Eisenhower’s son:
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 3 1/2 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.
Read the rest here: http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showa.html?article=44657
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Finally, a real conservative that understands, as I’ve mentioned in previous threads, that the modern Republican party is not what it once was.
