Editor, Gazette-Journal:
I recently resigned from the Mathews/Virginia Republican Party because party rules would ban me for four years for supporting an opposition candidate. Paraphrased excerpts of my resignation letter include:
As a lifelong Republican and Political Conservative it is impossible in good conscience to support Donald Trump—a con-man, liar, serial womanizer and bigamist, military coward, now convicted felon, a complete failure as President of the United States—for a return to that office.
I handed out “I Like Ike” buttons in first grade (1956), have run three times on the Republican ticket, contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars, worked for three Republican Presidents and served as U.S. Federal Maritime Commissioner under Bush 41. I’ve never voted for a Democrat—but if it looks like Trump might take Virginia I will.
As President, Trump sowed division, created chaos, despoiled our institutions. He’s no Conservative. He’s a Populist, not a Republican. He is irredee...