09-29-2004, 09:09 PM
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Eisenhower's Son is voting for Kerry...so is Reagans..hmmm...wonder why?
Son of GOP President Supports Kerry
TRAPPE, Md. - John Eisenhower, son of Republican President Eisenhower, said in a newspaper column this week that he will vote for Democratic Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) for president on Nov. 2.
In a rare public announcement, Eisenhower said he switched his party affiliation from Republican to independent after 50 years after losing confidence in his former party. He said Kerry has demonstrated courage, competence and a concern for tackling the "widening socio-economic gap in this country."
"There are times when we must break with the past, and I believe this is one of them," Eisenhower wrote in the opinion column published Tuesday in The Union Leader of Manchester, N.H.
The column assails President Bush (news - web sites) and the GOP for federal budget deficits, for "unilaterally" invading Iraq (news - web sites) and for infringing on personal liberties.
The Bush campaign had no immediate comment.
Eisenhower, 82, declined to be interviewed Wednesday. His wife, Joanne Eisenhower, said by telephone from their home on Maryland's Eastern Shore that, "This is something he felt strongly about."
"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," Eisenhower wrote.
Eisenhower, a former U.S. ambassador to Belgium and author, was a registered Republican for 50 years — until the Bush administration's decision to invade Iraq "as a maverick," he wrote.
"Recent developments indicate that the current Republican Party leadership has confused confident leadership with hubris and arrogance," he wrote.
Eisenhower scolded the Republican leadership for embracing a tax code that "heads us in the direction of a society of very rich and very poor."
"Senator Kerry, in whom I am willing to place my trust, has demonstrated that he is courageous, sober, competent, and concerned with fighting the dangers associated with the widening socio-economic gap in this country," he concluded.
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09-29-2004, 09:14 PM
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RE:Eisenhower's Son is voting for Kerry...so is Reagans..hmmm...wonder why?
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Who really cares? Who they're voting for should have no impact on who anyone else voted for. His opinion counts just about as much as Natalie Maines or Britney Spears.
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09-29-2004, 09:23 PM
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RE: Eisenhower's Son is voting for Kerry...so is Reagans..hmmm...wonder why?
Because they are gay?
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09-29-2004, 09:43 PM
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RE:Eisenhower's Son is voting for Kerry...so is Reagans..hmmm...wonder why?
Dude reeds, it's just two votes. My parents are both voting for George Bush. So those votes will even themselves out. Nothing to worry about.
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09-29-2004, 09:58 PM
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RE: Eisenhower's Son is voting for Kerry...so is Reagans..hmmm...wonder why?
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Eisenhower, a former U.S. ambassador to Belgium and author, was a registered Republican for 50 years — until the Bush administration's decision to invade Iraq "as a maverick," he wrote.
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On topic.
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09-29-2004, 10:08 PM
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RE:Eisenhower's Son is voting for Kerry...so is Reagans..hmmm...wonder why?
John Eisenhower is voting for Kerry and so is the Al Queda network of terrorists. Big wuptido.
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09-29-2004, 10:14 PM
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RE: Eisenhower's Son is voting for Kerry...so is Reagans..hmmm...wonder why?
I thought it was because they were gay?
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09-29-2004, 10:42 PM
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RE:Eisenhower's Son is voting for Kerry...so is Reagans..hmmm...wonder why?
"Who really cares? Who they're voting for should have no impact on who anyone else voted for. His opinion counts just about as much as Natalie Maines or Britney Spears. "
I beg to differ. If its making headline news on yahoo and msn, there must be some people out there who care..but, since they are bashing the right, that is the response I would expect to get on here...
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09-29-2004, 10:44 PM
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RE: Eisenhower's Son is voting for Kerry...so is Reagans..hmmm...wonder why?
It is no different than Ed Koch voting for Bush right?
This is such a huge non-story perpetuated as something it is not by a dying losing party.
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09-30-2004, 06:49 AM
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09-30-2004, 01:51 PM
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RE:Eisenhower's Son is voting for Kerry...so is Reagans..hmmm...wonder why?
Maybe I am splitting hairs becuase he was at the Dem convention and maybe I wasn't paying enough attention, but did Ron Reagan, Jr. actually say he was voting for Kerry? I am not sure he did.
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09-30-2004, 01:56 PM
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RE:Eisenhower's Son is voting for Kerry...so is Reagans..hmmm...wonder why?
This just in:
Fourth cousin of Republican President to run as Democrat.
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Edit: Dude, just look at Teddy. Even in that picture, he looks like he's about to kick somebody's ass. The man got shot in the middle of a speech and finished the speech. He was a tough SOB.
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At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
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09-30-2004, 02:00 PM
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RE:Eisenhower's Son is voting for Kerry...so is Reagans..hmmm...wonder why?
"Maybe I am splitting hairs becuase he was at the Dem convention and maybe I wasn't paying enough attention, but did Ron Reagan, Jr. actually say he was voting for Kerry? I am not sure he did"
No, not at the convention he didnt say he was..on Larry King live he did..he bashed the Republican party for the majority of his time on the show..good stuff
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09-30-2004, 02:35 PM
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RE:Eisenhower's Son is voting for Kerry...so is Reagans..hmmm...wonder why?
I'm with Murphy. Who cares who this guy's voting for? If Chelsea Clinton decides to vote for Bush, that's not going to influence me, either.
Make up your own mind, preferably based upon facts and your viewpoint regarding those facts.
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