My Republican father voted for Obama

[sam kane]

He voted for Richard Nixon 3 times. It is hard to even write this--also GWB twice. The only Democrat he has ever voted for was Bill Clinton, "the best Republican we've ever had." He has Obama fever right now. It is the first time my mother and my father are obsessed about the same politician. I am happy for her, and also happy for the Democratic party if Obama wins the nomination, because I think that this bodes well for November. The republicans seem to really resent McCain and are willing to cross the isle for Obama.

[FrenchieCat]

1. Lotsa conversions going around towards Obama....

who I believe is our best hope to recapture the White House!

[AtomicKitten]

2. Same with a close associate and her husband.

Quite surprising, really, in a wonderful kind of way. It is recognized across the spectrum that Obama is the real deal and our best hope for America.

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[babylonsister]

3. Excellent, thanks for sharing, and here's to harmony in your family!

:toast:

[angstlessk]

5. Husbands mom & dad both voted boosh 2x...NOW OBAMA!

He seems to be moving people in the correct direction (notice I did not say right)

[amborin]

6. socialist website take on obama is compelling

suggests he's a carefully crafted and supported right wing candidate

will serve the interests of the republicans

[TheDoorbellRang]

7. Is that the new meme this week?

Looks like the cult meme went bust so now he's really a publican plant!!11!11!! :rofl:

[amborin]

10. Obama's always mouthed Republican values

remember he said Republicans were the "party of ideas"

that is straight out of Karl Rove

the dems have had brilliant ideas ..... if you wanted to cite good ideas, cite them, not rethugs.....the dems implemented the New Deal, etc.....

why praise rethugs, especially in this juncture of class war waged against the middle and lower classes

[TheDoorbellRang]

13. Oh, I heartily agree -- that IS straight out of Karl Rove

Please allow me to give you Obama's full quote which was so egregiously distorted a la Rove:

Factcheck.org Verifies Obama Side of the Reagan Controversy

...Obama’s interview with the Reno Gazette-Journal:

I don’t want to present myself as some sort of singular figure. I think part of what’s different are the times. I do think that, for example, the 1980 election was different. I mean, I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that, you know, Richard Nixon did not, and in a way that Bill Clinton did not. He put us on a fundamentally different path, because the country was ready for it. I think they felt like, you know, with all the excesses of the ’60s and the ’70s, you know government had grown and grown, but there wasn’t much sense of accountability in terms of how it was operating, and I think people just tapped into – he tapped into what people were already feeling, which is we want clarity, we want optimism, we want a return to that sense of dynamism, and, and, you know, entrepreneurship that had been missing.

I think Kennedy, 20 years earlier, moved the country in a fundamentally different direction. So I think a lot of it just has to do with the times. I think we’re in one of those times right now, where people feels like things as they are going right now aren’t working, that we’re bogged down in the same arguments that we’ve been having, and they’re not useful. And the Republican approach, I think, has played itself out. I think it’s fair to say that the Republicans were the party of ideas for a pretty long chunk of time there over the last 10, 15 years, in the sense that they were challenging conventional wisdom.

Now, you’ve heard it all before. You look at the economic policies when they’re being debated among the presidential candidates, it’s all tax cuts. Well, we know, we’ve done that; we’ve tried it. That’s not really going to solve our energy problems, for example...

To conclude succinctly:

There’s a difference between praising someone for having ideas and praising the idea itself. Obama is doing the former – and just as clearly not doing the latter.

http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=2750

[OnionPatch]

8. My brother-in-law likes him too!

He's not a registered Republican and calls himself an "independent" but he's always leaned a tad to the right. He can't vote in the primaries in his state but plans to vote for Obama in the general if he's the nominee. I was stunned! He used to be a big McCain supporter but thinks McCain's an ass now. My liberal sister is beside herself with joy. :bounce:

[Laura PourMeADrink]

9. Tell Mr. Kane I love him ! nt

[rhett o rick]

11. I have spoken to numerous republicans that are true conservatives that are supporting Obama. nm

[Jed Dilligan]

12. Same with my gf's mom

She's not an ideologue like your dad, just a traditionalist, Southern baptist mom from TX. We were shocked when we found out she would be caucusing with Obama.

[Moh96]

14. I think its fair to say that many Rep will vote for Obama in GE but no Dem will vote for McCain