This opinion piece in Louisville’s Courier Journal by Marlow W. Cook, a Republican formerly of Louisville, who was Jefferson County judge from 1962-1968 and U.S. senator from Kentucky from 1968-1975
I shall cast my vote for John Kerry come Nov 2.
I have been, and will continue to be, a Republican. But when we as a party send the wrong person to the White House, then it is our responsibility to send him home if our nation suffers as a result of his actions. I fall in the category of good conservative thinkers, like George F. Will, for instance, who wrote: “This administration cannot be trusted to govern if it cannot be counted on to think and having thought, to have second thoughts.”
I say, well done George Will, or, even better, from the mouth of the numero uno of conservatives, William F. Buckley Jr.: “If I knew then what I know now about what kind of situation we would be in, I would have opposed the war.”
I am not enamored with John Kerry, but I am frightened to death of George Bush. I fear a secret government. I abhor a government that refuses to supply the Congress with requested information. I am against a government that refuses to tell the country with whom the leaders of our country sat down and determined our energy policy, and to prove how much they want to keep that secret, they took it all the way to the Supreme Court.
I pray to God that more and more honest and logical Republican Americans begin to notice how many of their number are breaking ranks and seeing the signs of an illegitimate, inept, reckless, arrogant, greedy, unscrupulous and dangerous President we have in the White House.