In 30-plus years as a registered voter, I have never voted for anyone that was not a Republican when there was a Republican to vote for. Now I am just sorry that my first anti-republican vote cannot be an anti-Bush vote.

It was already all that I could do to vote for him the second time around. His lousy, unproductive war on terror was already hard to take. But the contest seemed to be between a traitor and a political (if not military) coward. We chose the coward who has also become a traitor, selling out our security for cheap foreign labor, selling our young men and women's lives for big corporate profits, selling out our poor and elderly to give a few friends and cronies jobs they just aren't qualified for.

From 1972, the first presidential election that I actively worked in, until now, I have always been enthusiastically supportive of the Republican candidate or, when they've won, the Republican president.

George W. Bush has changed that. I can't say that I will never vote for a Republican again but I guarantee you I will never vote for anyone from the Bush camp. Well, I might vote for Condaleeza Rice. But if she's smart, she'd wait a few years before running so she isn't running in the shadow of that black cloud left behind by George W. Bush.