Posted on 02/03/2008 5:49:16 PM PST by RTO
Susan Eisenhower is more than just another disappointed Republican. She is also Ike's granddaughter and a dedicated member of the party who has urged her fellow Republicans in the past to stick with the GOP. But now Eisenhower, who runs an international consulting firm, is endorsing Barack Obama. She has no plans to officially leave the Republican Party. But in Eisenhower's view, Obama is the only candidate who can build a national consensus on the issues most important to her—energy, global warming, an aging population and America's standing in the world.
"Barack Obama will really be in a singular position to attract moderate Republicans," she told NEWSWEEK. "I wanted to do what many people did for my grandfather in 1952. He was hugely aided in his quest for the presidency by Democrats for Eisenhower. There's a long and fine tradition of crossover voters."
Eisenhower is one of a small but symbolically powerful group of what Obama recently called "Obamacans"—disaffected Republicans who have drifted away from their party just as Eisenhower Democrats did and, more recently, Reagan Democrats in the 1980s. They include lifelong Republican Tricia Moseley, a former staffer for the late Sen. Strom Thurmond, the one-time segregationist from South Carolina. Now a high-school teacher, Moseley says she was attracted to Obama's positions on education and the economy.
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The world has gone nuts.
I call a time-out for a puke break. Oh puhleez.
Wow. That apple certainly fell far from the tree.
Obama-mannequins is more like it.
Those of us who are from Illinois know that BHO is an empty suit.
Sad.
One word...BULL*HIT!!
Um, granddad was no party faithful either, really. After all, he only became a Republican when he ran for the White House. He never even voted before that! He can hardly be claimed to be Mr. Republican (that was Taft!).
I keep saying this guy is really dangerous. (and it’s not my tin-foil hat that’s making me say it) :)
She sounds like a Democrat to me.
BS
If they did their research, no way they’d be behind Obama.
Her Grandfather was a “moderate” RINO too.
IMO Obama will be by far the hardest to beat in the General and, if McCain is it, he will be unbeatable.
“...Obama is the only candidate who can build a national consensus on the issues most important to her—energy, global warming, an aging population and America’s standing in the world.”
If those are “Republican” issues then she isn’t any “Republican” that I know. Energy is the only issue she notes that qualifies as an issue, but I’d bet her stance on it would be Wind Power, and such alternatives. She’s swallowed the Dem/Lib/Socialist Kool aid.
I’ve been saying this for months- we better hope clinton gets the nomination as she is beatable, hussien obama may be a problem....
the hannity crusade to defeat hillary should’ve started in July...obama is a schiester and a dangerous leftist...
I’m sort of wondering if there should be a turban on that young man.....
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.
Alexander Tyler
(regarding the fall of the Athenian Republic)
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