Posted on 10/17/2004 11:57:15 AM PDT by Vicki
Letter I sent today
To The Editor,
3 Reasons Not to Vote for Kerry For Those Who are Undecided
1. Voted against the first gulf war. We had a coalition of nations that even included Syria and he still voted against it. Under what circumstances would Kerry be for going to war?
2. Over 350 economists including recent Nobel Prize recipient Edward Prescott recently signed a letter critical of Kerry's economic plan “would, over time, inhibit capital formation, depress productivity growth, and make the United States less competitive internationally. The end result would be lower U.S. employment and real wage growth.”
3. Lastly and perhaps most importantly I cannot vote for a man that the Vietnamese communists have chosen to honor in their War Crimes Museum for his assistance in helping them achieve victory over the United States.
Sincerely,
4. The New York Times endorses him.
Yea, they called me one night because of a letter I had published in the local paper. You wouldn't believe the stupid questions they asked me. Then they misquoted me in the article.
There are oodles of reasons not to vote for Kerry:
1. He is for internationalizing the international coalition in Iraq, and de-internationalizing the international multilateral talks in N Korea.
2. "Voted for the $87B before voting against it," after voting to authorize war against Iraq and declaring it "irresponsible" not to vote for the $87B. Edwards did the same. These are our brave fighting men and women they voted against.
3. He has a plan.
4. His plan is a litany of complaints, except the one concering Iraq which is also called "The Bush Plan."
5. At a time when this country desperately needed to show backbone to the USSR, Kerry voted against many key weapons platforms and supported a unilateral (read suicidal) nuclear freeze.
6. Jimmy Carter, the catalytic for modern terrorism in the Middle East, endorsed him at the DNC.
7. He said at the last debate that he wants to get to a time where we can return to a pre-9/11 type US, has also said and that 9/11 did not essentially change him.
8. Supported $7.5 BIL cut in intel funding in the wake of the first WTC attack in 1993.
9. Claims that Bush has "no credibility" and that he will bring "new credibility" to the WH and, yet, he calls the coalition in Iraq "the coalition of the coerced and bribed" and chides PM Allayi for "not being honest" about the Iraq War. In the last debate he mocks the coalition with the euphemism "real coalition," and him and Edwards maintain that the 1991 Gulf War was an example of what this coalition is not and, yet, Kerry voted against that war (and Edwards wasn't even a political freshman then). The coalitions were roughly the same size (nationally - armies today are smaller and more mobile as opposed to the Cold War style armies) and for the comparative times the respective wars were being fought (100 hours ground war; and 18+ months), the amount of money spent and the casualties are comparable.
10. He consisently cites Reagan (like Truman and JFK) as an example of a President whose approach he would strive to emulate, yet he has previously referred to his Presidency as "monstrous" and "8 years of moral darkness." Pure disingenuity.
11. He is for everything before he is against it, and vice versa. He is for keeping the middle-class tax cuts even though he voted against them, etc.
It is good and respectable to change ones mind about things when one receives new information. There are times when it's necessary to stay an imperfect course, but there is generally nothing ignoble about acknowledging when situations or understandings change.
The problem with Kerry isn't that he changes his mind--it's that he refuses to state his real positions. Contrary to what Hannity et al. say, Kerry is very consistent on a lot of things. He supports higher taxes, he opposes the military, he supports judicially-imposed "gay marriage", he opposes the Second Amendment, he supports government-funding for abortions and opposes any meaningful restrictions whatsoever, and in general--with the exception of the military--he consistently supports big government.
Kerry is not wishy-washy on any of these issues. He's absolutely consistent on them. He may not consistently tell the truth about them, but the actual positions he holds are quite consistent.
You're right there are plenty of reasons to not vote for Kerry but I wanted to key in on those three because they are always throwing in our faces about not having a coalition, the economy and Kerry's service in Vietnam.
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