Letter of October 15, 2004 To Whom It May Concern: I am a Republican. I say this with the full realization that, by now, this posting has been bypassed in favor of those postings which better reflect your short-term goals. If such is the case, I can understand it, frustrating as it may be to me. For those of you still reading this, I appreciate it and, having supported Jimmy Carter in 1976, will not reward your indulgence with insult or diatribe. In fact, you may doubt my loyalty to my self-stated party affiliation before I’m finished. John Kerry has...