Dismayed Republicans emerge as Barack Obama supporters

[sniffa]

WHAT do the daughter of Richard Nixon, a speechwriter for Ronald Reagan and the son of Milton Friedman, the monetarist economist, have in common? They are all Obamacons: conservatives, Republicans and free market champions who support Barack Obama, the Democratic party nominee, for president.

The Obama campaign has a sharp-eyed political operations team tasked with seeking out prominent endorsers “on both sides of the aisle”, according to a campaign official. It came tantalisingly close to securing one of the biggest names in politics when Colin Powell, secretary of state during President George W Bush’s first term in office, said last week that he might vote for Obama.

Powell said Obama and John McCain, his Republican opponent, “have the qualifications to be president, but both of them cannot be”. He added that he would neither vote for Obama because he was African-Ameri-can nor for McCain because of his military service but for the individual who “brings the best set of tools to the problems of 21st-century America . . . regardless of party”.

His argument was echoed by Peggy Noonan, a conservative commentator who wrote woundingly in The Wall Street Journal last week that: “Mr McCain is the old America, of course; Mr Obama the new.” Although she did not explicitly back either candidate, she said: “America is always looking forward, not back, it is always in search of the fresh and leaving the tired. That’s how we started.”

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We have the potential for a landslide.

[kentuck]

1. I have believed from the beginning that this is the group ..

..that will win it for Obama. There are just too many disenchanted Republicans for McCain to win, in my opinion. When the votes are finally tallied, it will be the Obamacans that win it for Barack Obama.

[Raine]

2. This is GREAT news

for a change the Democratic party can get Repugs to cross over instead of vice versa. :-)

[charlie]

3. Poor, poor Johnny

Pinhead Bush once denied him the presidency and he's about to do it again. If McCain only had unleashed that famous temper and given Bush a deserved punch in the balls, he'd have a chance today. Bush is gonna dance away clean (yay, Congressional wusses!) and Johnny will spend his twilight years marinating in bilious regret.

[The River]

4. Patriotic Republicans Who Value

Country over Party will vote for Obama.
They've seen the damage the neocon(victs)
have to to the GOP and want change.

Each one of them who votes for Obama is a double vote.
+1 for Obama and -1 for McLame

[SwampG8r]

7. at the end of the day

maybe we can ALL be capital A Americans

some things i know about the true republican base are they want accountability and they want honesty


hmmmm.....:shrug:

[ShadowLiberal]

5. There's a whole group of republicans that's turning against the party from Obama

While it hasn't been reported much, there is one group of republicans that's been a large part of Obama's republican support who want to see him win.

They're people who have been feeling alienated by increasing southernisation and intolerance of the party, they're getting turned off from the GOP on social issues, and they hate stuff like the war that the GOP heavily supports. There were a few other things generally true about republicans supporting Obama I read in an article months ago, but I can't remember them right now.

[SwampG8r]

6. and here is the part that was getting laughs during the primaries

the part where obama said we have to work WITH the other side on issues
instead of taking the easy road of political demonization

this is going to be the most important election since fdr/hoover

[LordJFT]

8. Isn't that Eisenhower's daughter, not Nixon's?

[charlie]

13. Julie is Nixon's daughter n/t

[LordJFT]

9. Isn't that Eisenhower's daughter, not Nixon's?

[SwampG8r]

15. she married ikes son shes nixons daughter

[barack the house]

10. Exactly one thing America is always respected for its innovation and reaching for the new.

[barack the house]

11. Exactly one thing America is always respected for its innovation and reaching for the new...

[AlCzervik]

12. holy shnikeys. a bunch of free market tax cutters have had enough of Bush so much

so they're willing to look past the many policies they don't agree with Obama on for the overall good of the country.

Holy shit people, this makes me as citizen of this country feel good.

[PretzelWarrior]

14. recommended thread. this is why GOP true believers are

shitting bricks. this has the potential to not just be a solid victory for Democrats....but a landslide of epic proportions and a complete repudiation of Bush.

[SwampG8r]

16. with coat tails too

[dkf]

17. Umm. They think Peggy Noonan might vote Obama?

I dunno. I find that doubtful.

[charlie]

18. Since she has a weird fetish for feet

Specifically, brown cordovan clad feet, and Obama's feet are naturally brown... then... maybe...

There are no signposts a normal human can use to understand what's going on in Noonan's strange world. She might surprise us, but it'd be no surprise. It'd just be Peggy, as bizarre as ever.

[jazzjunkysue]

19. Many Fox economists like Obama on his money policies. I saw them

pne on Fox discussing Hillary and Obama on money and the all preferred Obama. They said "He understands money and Hillary doesn't."

So, the true conservatives who believe in capitalism may well recognise this in him and secretly vote for obama. They don't care about party loyalty or dogma. Only the bottom line.

[rug]

20. The people cited in that story are a rogues' gallery of the right.