Finally, after months of astroturf, a Republican has written an amazing letter to the editor of the Albuquerque Journal.
The Albuquerque Journal leans to the right, as I described in my "Operation Shame On You" diary. The Journal loves Bush.
Please keep reading...
Here's the letter.
Grand Old Principles Gone
I REPRESENTED George Bush Sr. as a delegate to the Florida convention and I volunteered to go to Vietnam as an intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army.
Under the current administration, the Republican Party has deserted its dedicated people who believed in fiscal responsibility, a balanced budget, truthfulness from its leaders, coordination and involvement of its NATO and U.N. allies and national security that defends but does not violate the civil liberties of its citizens.
Under Bush Jr. we have for the first time a "yes" president rather than a president who is surrounded by "yes" men. Rather than an MBA who delegates, he has relinquished the reins of governing to the puppeteer handlers who through the strings of control have told him of supposed weapons of mass destruction, the cost benefits of using Halliburton, the safety of reckless deficit spending, the sensibility of privatizing Social Security and the wisdom of going-it-alone in the world.
This president has said "yes" and the mission has not been accomplished.
For those others in the past who have voted Republican because they believed in the vitality of free markets and the enterprise system, and who believed in the elimination of deficit spending that in the '90s and earlier periods brought in a revived prosperity, there is not a genuine Republican candidate for president this year. ...
There may be a man who will return the Republican Party to its principles. But on Nov. 2, Bush Jr. is not that man.
So, to the Swift Boat liars, I say "Mission not accomplished!"