George Bush vs. the Naive Nine
From today’s Wall Street Journal editorial page:
George Bush vs. the Naive Nine
Why this lifelong Democrat will vote Republican next November.
BY ZELL MILLER
Monday, November 3, 2003 12:01 a.m. EST
If I live and breathe, and if–as Hank Williams used to say–the creek don’t rise, in 2004 this Democrat will do something I didn’t do in 2000, I will vote for George W. Bush for president.
I have come to believe that George Bush is the right man in the right place at the right time. And that’s a pretty big mouthful coming from a lifelong Democrat who first voted for Adlai Stevenson in 1952 and has voted for every Democratic presidential candidate the 12 cycles since then. My political history to the contrary, this was the easiest decision I think I’ve ever made in deciding who to support. For I believe the next five years will determine the kind of world my four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren will live in. I simply cannot entrust that crucial decision to any one of the current group of Democratic presidential candidates. Continue Reading »