Republicans defect to the Obama camp

The Sunday Times ^ | 5/6/07 | Sarah Baxter

[ricks_place]

DISILLUSIONED supporters of President George W Bush are defecting to Barack Obama, the Democratic senator for Illinois, as the White House candidate with the best chance of uniting a divided nation.

Tom Bernstein went to Yale University with Bush and co-owned the Texas Rangers baseball team with him. In 2004 he donated the maximum $2,000 to the president’s reelection campaign and gave $50,000 to the Republican National Committee. This year he is switching his support to Obama. He is one of many former Bush admirers who find the Democrat newcomer appealing.

Matthew Dowd, Bush’s chief campaign strategist in 2004, announced last month that he was disillusioned with the war in Iraq and the president’s “my way or the highway” style of leadership – the first member of Bush’s inner circle to denounce the leader’s performance in office.

Although Dowd has yet to endorse a candidate, he said the only one he liked was Obama. “I think we should design campaigns that appeal, not to 51% of the people, but bring the country together as a whole,” Dowd said.

[ricks_place]

Some where in a parallel bizzarro universe....those standing agaist IslamoNazis now stand with their stealth candidate.

[clamper1797]

My BS meter just pegged ....

[pissant]

MSM nonsense, as usual

[theDentist]

Not this *** again...

[WallStsk8r]

No kidding, what a total load of B.S.!

[Huck]

LOL

[NeoCaveman]

He must really be magical.

Tbe LA Times said so.

[massgopguy]

Shouldn’t that read; “delusional”?

[ClearCase_guy]

Seminar Callers. "As a life-long Republican, and as someone who voted for Bush twice, even after he stole the election from Al Gore, I must say that Barak Obama seems like just the person we need ..."

Do they really think people fall for this tripe?

[oakcon]

“What’s that rumbling sound?”

“Sir, it appears to be a massive wave of bovine excrement.”

“Not this **** again...”

[Brilliant]

Maybe this is why Bush is so liberal.

Of course, it’s kind of absurd to say that they are “defecting,” even if the story were true. Bush isn’t running for anything.

[weegee]

Bernstein is a champion of human rights, who admires Obama’s call for action on Darfur, while Dowd’s opposition to the war has been sharpened by the expected deployment to Iraq of his son, an Arabic-speaking Army intelligence specialist.

So waging war in Iraq against terrorists is bad but waging war in Darfur is good? What is the US national interest?

Are we going to war for basic civil rights? Then we should be going to war against the segregated nation of Saudi Arabia.

[Mac94]

Maybe, maybe not ... it may just be that this guy is the new “latest and greatest” and everyone is jumping aboard without asking questions.

It’s still way to early and when Obama has to take a position on an issue of substance we’ll see if he keeps his luster.

[rocksblues]

[weegee]

Obama at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs was “pure John Kennedy”, a neocon hero of the cold war.

JFK was a neocon? Or a neocon hero?

Who knew?

[cripplecreek]

“I think we should design campaigns that appeal, not to 51% of the people, but bring the country together as a whole,”

And Osama O'bama will do this exactly how?

[Brilliant]

“I think we should design campaigns that appeal, not to 51% of the people, but bring the country together as a whole,” Dowd said.

In that case, I can't see why he would support Obama.

[traderrob6]

“My BS meter just pegged ....”

Mine threw up then exploded.

[nctexan]

Yup... I just saw a whole herd of them running through my neighborhood.

Like the throngs of supporters at the Cindy Sheehan rallies in Crawford.

Where's the Goodyear blimp when you need some crowd pictures?