Posted on 07/07/2008 7:36:22 PM PDT by jazusamo
A number of friends of mine have commented on an odd phenomenon that they have observed — conservative Republicans they know who are saying that they are going to vote for Barack Obama. It seemed at first to be an isolated fluke, perhaps signifying only that my friends know some strange conservatives. But apparently columnist Robert Novak has encountered the same phenomenon and has coined the term "Obamacons" to describe the conservatives for Senator Obama.
Now the San Francisco Chronicle has run a feature article, titled "Some Influential Conservatives Spurn GOP and Endorse Obama." In it they quote various conservatives on why they are ready to take a chance on Barack Obama, rather than on John McCain.
What is going on?
Partly what is going on is that, in recent years, the Congressional Republicans in general — and Senator John McCain in particular — have so alienated so many conservatives that some of these conservatives are like a drowning man grasping at a straw.
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Mrs. Williams has nothing to say in the matter, WW bought Mrs. Williams a new vacuum cleaner for their anniversary...she is going to be to busy to notice WW is not around for long stretches of time....
That is only partial sarcasm, his shovel story is sooooo funny...LOL!
I want to believe you are correct but I keep talking to people who have voted Republican their entire life and behave in a conservative manner who are voting for Obama.
They hate McCain and think it is time for a "change" after all the GOP BS and excessive spending and scandals.
My very favorite!
Right on! My Dream Ticket
Sowell - Williams, ‘08
Blacks To The Future
I love listening to Walter. Wonder what his Economics classes are like at George Mason? Only Economics professor I ever had would occasionally get up and forget his wife at the College Cafeteria on Sundays when he returned his tray.
The only thing more unlikely than that is "Conservatives for McCain".
Here’s the complete quote - it wouldn’t all fit on my tag line. :)
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery”. —Winston Churchill
I found it on this blog:
You Shall Have No Gods Before Envy
http://onecosmos.blogspot.com/2007/04/you-shall-have-no-gods-before-envy.html
bump!
Anyone who is voting for Obama does not understand the first thing about conservative ideals. They are not a real conservative.
Similarly, anyone who is a conservative IS voting for McCain. Yes, I’ve heard the litany of McCain’s sins against conservatism. I supported Thompson in the primaries.
The primaries are over. We are faced with a choice. We can choose someone who has been a fiscal conservative his entire career, who has been pro-life his entire career, who has consistently supported the military and the war on terror, and who will appoint justices who are far more likely to be acceptable than his opponent.
The other option is to vote for someone who has been a liberal extremist for all of his short career, who has promised to cripple our military and end the war on terror, raise taxes, recognize gay marriage, and appoint extremist judges.
There are no other choices. You cannot stay home. You cannot vote for a third party candidate and hope for eventual redemption. Once the toothpaste of socialized medicine, leftist extremist justices, crippling taxes, and an eviscerated military is out of the tube, there will be no putting it back in.
This is an election for our survival. McCain is not perfect, but the perfect is the enemy of the good, or in this case, maybe the just good enough.
Well said.
Nicely put and all true statements of what the future would hold under an Obama administration - and beyond that administration...This board is full of people trying to stick it to the GOP and McCain. Your post should help clear the air to all those reading here.
I see your still working for Obama well into the night.
I’ll vote for my dog if he could beat Obama. Go vote for Barr, that will work.
Conservative Republicans have been voting less-than-ideally-conservative candidates for a long time now. I suspect most of the "I can't vote for McCain, he's not a true conservative" camp voted for GWB, Dole, GHWB, Ford, Nixon, etc. Not even one conservative in the bunch. Big gov't types, every last one. Is McCain, on the whole, much different from those on the above list? Nope.
If you live in a 2004-solid-blue state, you need to strongly consider voting Bob Barr and send the national RINOs a message with your vote. By all means, donate to the McCain campaign to fund victories in marginal red/blue states (I do), but if you are like me in the blue-capital of the nation, NYC, you ought to send a message rather than hold your nose in a futile cause. Keep in mind that the Electoral College decides the presidency; voting for a RINO in a true-blue state is surely a waste and only encourages the RNC to support RINOs in future Senate and House elections.
I can't speak for every congressman and Senator who supported amnesty, regarding the history of their positions on that issue, but President Bush made it pretty clear when he ran the first time that he favored amnesty like solutions to the illegal immigration problem and that he favored big government with his talk of "compassionate" conservatism. I don't feel betrayed by him.
The president's second term was worse than I expected it to be, however. He unfortunately did squander much of his political capital.
In general, history will judge his presidency as a good presidency. We got the success in Iraq and no more 9/11's on his watch, as well as the judges and some good conservative social policy.
Sowell is right about McCain who has stabbed not only conservatives, but Republicans in the back. However, we have a good chance with McCain of getting conservative justices. We have no chance with Obama. Furthermore, I cannot imagine our military men and women being comfortable with Obama as commander and chief, as the very notion makes me, a mere civilian, extremely uncomfortable.
Can John Stossel be Secretary of something?
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