A blog called Republican Switchers is keeping track of Republicans and conservatives who are supporting Kerry.
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Republicans Endorsing John Kerry:
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Charley Reese, conservative columnist/journalist, Orlando Sentinel (1971-2001) -- May 17
Lee Iacocca, former Chrysler Chairman -- June 25
Russell E. Train, (interview) EPA chief under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford -- Jul. '04
Various Republican Business Leaders -- Aug. 5
Gail Slocum, former Republican Mayor of Menlo Park, California -- Sept. '04
Clay Myers, Republican Secretary of State (1967-77) and State Treasurer (1977-84) for Oregon -- Sept. 1
Bill Rutherford, former Treasurer of Oregon and Chair of the Oregon Investment Council -- Sept. 1
George Comstock, Mayor of Portola Valley, California -- Sept. 1
Mike Cobb, former Republican Mayor of Palo Alto, California -- Sept. 8
Pete McCloskey (editorial here), former Republican Representative from California -- Sept. 8
John Eisenhower, son of former Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Sept. 9
Steve May, former Republican state legislator from Arizona -- Sept. 10
Jon Silver, former Republican Mayor of Portola Valley, California -- Sept. 24
John A. Galbraith, former Republican Ohio General Assemblyman -- Sept. 28
David Catania, Republican (now Independent) Councilman from Washington, D.C. -- Sept. 29
Clyde Prestowitz, counselor to Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Commerce -- Oct. 6
Rick Russman, former Republican State Senator from New Hampshire -- Oct. 7
Marshall Wittmann, former communications director to Arizona Republican Senator John McCain -- Oct. 7
Richard Schmalensee, former Council of Economic Advisers member for President George H. W. Bush -- Oct. 12
Elmer L. Andersen, former Republican Governor of Minnesota (1961-63) -- Oct. 13
Ballard Morton, son of Thruston Morton, former Republican Senator from Kentucky -- Oct. 14
Anne Morton Kimberly, widow of Rogers C.B. Morton, former Republican Representative from Maryland -- Oct. 14
William Milliken, former Republican Governor of Michigan (1969-82) -- Oct. 18
Marlow Cook, former Republican Senator from Kentucky (1968-74) -- Oct. 20
Peter Gillette, former Republican Commissioner of Trade for Minnesota (1991-95) -- Oct. 20
Tim Ashby, director, Office of Mexico and the Caribbean, U.S. Commerce Department under Reagan and Bush I -- Oct. 14
Republicans Who Will Not Vote For George W. Bush:
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Basil Akers, 1992 RNC NM delegate for George H. W. Bush and U.S. Army intelligence analyst in Vietnam, Oct. 25
Bob Barr, former Republican Representative from Georgia (1995-2003) -- Oct. 14
Robert L. Black, retired Republican judge of the Ohio First District Court of Appeals -- Oct. 13
John H. Buchanan, former Republican Congressman from Alabama -- Oct. 4
Lincoln Chafee, Republican Senator from Rhode Island -- Oct. 4
John Dean, former White House Counsel to former Republican President Nixon -- Apr. '04
Paul Findley, former Republican Representative from Illinois -- Apr. '04
A. Linwood Holton former Republican Governor of Virginia (1970-74) -- Aug. 29
Log Cabin Republicans -- Sept. 8
Paul O'Neill, former Treasury Secretary to Republican President George W. Bush -- Jan. '04
Richie Robb, mayor of South Charleston, WV (and 2004 Electoral College WV Republican elector) -- Sep. '04
William Saletan, "liberal Republican" columnist for Slate -- Sept. 1
Karl W. B. Schwarz, very conservative Republican from Arkansas (scroll down or search "Karl") -- Oct. 20
Andrew Sullivan, conservative columnist, former editor of The New Republic -- Jul. 25
Particularly interesting is the list of newspapers that have switched their endorsement from Bush in 2000 to Kerry in 2004.
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John Bugay: Christians should be alarmed by Bush
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Forum: The truth of the matter
Christians should be alarmed by Bush
Editorial
By John Bugay
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Sunday, October 17, 2004
<<...If you're a conservative Christian, and you're still undecided, please consider that evangelical Christians who hope to call this country to a higher moral standard are on the verge of undermining their own legitimacy.
I am a Christian, and I am alarmed. One of the values we hold most dearly is "truth." It is a foundational value, upon which all other values rest. If we don't have truth, we have built our house on shifting sand.
When President Clinton looked into the camera and said "I did not have sexual relations with that woman," we discerned what he was saying and were justifiably outraged. Just a few years later, President Bush looked the world in the eye and said there was "clear evidence" of peril in Iraq, the result of which "could come in the form of a mushroom cloud." Even then, the evidence was not so clear at all. And yet President Bush invoked this false image, intending to frighten people into going to war.
Clinton's untruth brought scorn and derision only upon himself. But Bush's untruth plunged this nation into an unnecessary war, killing thousands of innocents and costing all of us the good will of people and governments around the world. Who will ever trust this president again? The Bush administration is so far from deserving our trust this year that one conservative, writing for the Web site LewRockwell.com, calls this administration "The Truth Killers." President Bush kills the truth either because he misunderstands it, or because he deliberately misleads.
When John Kerry says he wants to wage a war on terror that is sensitive to the needs of our allies, President Bush's translation is that Kerry wants to be sensitive to terrorists. Christians who applaud this statement only heap judgment upon themselves. When Kerry says he will make certain that his foreign policies will meet a global test for legitimacy, the Bush translation is that Kerry "wants to subject the defense of this country to the approval of other nations." Again, not true.
The cornerstone message of the Bush campaign, concerning the $87 billion Iraq appropriation vote, would be laughable if it weren't so sad. Most U.S. senators voted against that same appropriation before they voted for it. President Bush has repeatedly used the fact that Kerry did virtually the same thing to portray him as indecisive and weak. Republican Christians, who evidently don't know how the Senate works, are moved by this shallow characterization
President Bush has governed and gone to war through policies that deliberately suppress the truth. Christians who support a president who engages in this kind of subterfuge have already judged themselves guilty of the very thing they ought to stand against.
John Kerry may not support all the things that evangelical Christians would support. But his testimony in 1971 focused on holding the leaders of his day accountable for a misbegotten war, another truth that has been suppressed, and he is doing the same thing today. He deserves an honest look from honest Christians, and I intend to vote for him on Nov. 2...>> |
