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Also note a completely different article with the same title by different author:

The Myth of the Obamacans by Ed Morrissey at HotAir.com

(Just trying to preempt those who can hardly wait to post "already posted" -- I searched and this article has not been posted, at least not with this title)

OK -- now we can discuss this editorial. I have a hard time believing that Colin Powell would actually publicly endorse Obama.

No genuine conservative could possibly endorse or vote for Obama. As the article states, the Democrats and the MSM are trying to "make it acceptable" for Republicans and Independents to vote for Obama -- trying to send the message that Obama is "centrist enough" to be acceptable for Republicans and Republican leaning independents.

1 posted on 08/16/2008 11:18:26 AM PDT by FocusNexus
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He is a capital-hating tax vampire with not the experience required to bake a cake. Add to that his race-baiting and inability to converse on any topic without a telepromter or a written speech in hand.


2 posted on 08/16/2008 11:21:09 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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But not a single prominent conservative with either an ongoing political career or a continuing affection for the Republican party has yet chosen to back Mr Obama.

Except for McCain, who has no problems praising Obama.

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3 posted on 08/16/2008 11:21:43 AM PDT by rabscuttle385 ("When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." Ronald Reagan)
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If Obama is not the anti-Christ, he is certainly the anti-Reagan. Everything Obama stands for is 180 degrees from Reagan.


4 posted on 08/16/2008 11:22:22 AM PDT by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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Centrist !!! LOL


5 posted on 08/16/2008 11:22:49 AM PDT by Deetes (God Bless the Troops .)
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“myth of “Obamacans” (as Mr Obama calls them) or “Obamacons” (as pundits do).”

Actually I think they are supposed to mean two different class of people: Obamacans are “Republicans for Obama” and Obamacons are “Conservatives for Obama”.

The only thing Obamacans and Obamacons have in common is that both are very rare to nonexistent.

Then there are the ObamaCONS, conservatives who refuse to support McCain, out of “principle”, even if that helps Obama — those are the ones who have been “conned” by the Dems’ “divide and conquer” strategy. Doing anything that helps socialist Obama get elected, resutling in turning over the entire country’s all three branches of the government to the Democrats, is NOT remotely consistent with “conservative principles”. As Rush Limbaugh said, you don’t win by losing, or something to that effect.


6 posted on 08/16/2008 11:25:27 AM PDT by FocusNexus ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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Race trumps ideology.
7 posted on 08/16/2008 11:27:33 AM PDT by nobama08
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“As the article states, the Democrats and the MSM are trying to “make it acceptable” for Republicans and Independents to vote for Obama — trying to send the message that Obama is “centrist enough” to be acceptable for Republicans and Republican leaning independents. “

Why does the media lie so much like that?


8 posted on 08/16/2008 11:27:35 AM PDT by WOSG (http://no-bama.blogspot.com/ - NObama, stop the Hype and Chains candidate)
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I’m too busy clinging to my gun to pull the lever for Obama.


10 posted on 08/16/2008 11:29:15 AM PDT by autumnraine
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“No genuine conservative could possibly endorse or vote for Obama.”

I agree. Even if one were to take his post-primary flip flops at face value, Obama is offering nothing that I would consider appealing to conservatives. What conservative voter wants more taxes, staggering increases in domestic spending, staggering curtailment of military spending, counterproductive energy policy proposals, etc. ad infinitum?


13 posted on 08/16/2008 11:35:15 AM PDT by DemforBush
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Anyone who missed Ike’s granddaughter, Susie on FOX news a couple of days ago really missed a chance to see who Obamacans really are. She’s been supporting this knucklehead since 2003 but she still says she’s a “republican.” ROTFL! IMHO, she didn’t come across as being a very intelligent individual.


17 posted on 08/16/2008 11:42:03 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (A History and Science Minute.- "Climate change" has been going on for millions of years!)
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If the three most prominent Republicans - or, rather, RINOS - that have endorsed "Osama" Obama are Hauser, Chafee, and Leach, I don't think the GOP should be too troubled by defections.

I wouldn't be surprised to see Chuck Hagel cross over as well. But who needs Hagel anyway? He's a lame duck in the Senate, largely because he badmouthed the effort in Iraq and probably realized he couldn't be renominated to his Senate seat.

Colin Powell was rumored by Bill Kristol on FOX News to be endorsing Obama and to be speaking at the 'Rat convention, but Powell himself quickly squelched that one.

18 posted on 08/16/2008 11:44:05 AM PDT by justiceseeker93
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If the three most prominent Republicans - or, rather, RINOS - that have endorsed "Osama" Obama are Hauser, Chafee, and Leach, I don't think the GOP should be too troubled by defections.

I wouldn't be surprised to see Chuck Hagel cross over as well. But who needs Hagel anyway? He's a lame duck in the Senate, largely because he badmouthed the effort in Iraq and probably realized he couldn't be renominated to his Senate seat.

Colin Powell was rumored by Bill Kristol on FOX News to be endorsing Obama and to be speaking at the 'Rat convention, but Powell himself quickly squelched that one.

19 posted on 08/16/2008 11:44:05 AM PDT by justiceseeker93
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Yet there are a number of myths about "Obamacans" (as Mr Obama calls them) or "Obamacons" (as pundits do).

That's funny -- I just lump them in with all of the other Obama supporters and term them "Obamorons".

21 posted on 08/16/2008 12:07:38 PM PDT by Bob
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In the suburbs of dayton ohio there are a lot of “goldwater conservatives” who are big Obama fans. I don’t get it.


23 posted on 08/16/2008 12:26:28 PM PDT by buckeye12
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Obama’s wasting his breath. There is NO WAY this values voter would ever vote for someone who actively attempted to block medical treatment for an out of womb baby simply because the mother tried to have it murdered and the abortionist botched the murder attempt. We don't need a president who would allow the doctors to follow up to their murder attempt with infanticide. Clear enough for you Obama?!
25 posted on 08/16/2008 12:38:14 PM PDT by highlander_UW (illegal alien is to an undocumented worker as a drug dealer is to an unlicensed pharmacist)
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Obamacans are the Potemkin Village of politics this election... a pretty shell with an empty core, created by the Obama campaign.


26 posted on 08/16/2008 12:49:52 PM PDT by DesScorp
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...trying to send the message that Obama is "centrist enough.

He's a centrist in the way Trotsky used the word.

27 posted on 08/16/2008 1:01:51 PM PDT by Stentor
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Ping!!!

Please see my post # 18.


29 posted on 08/16/2008 1:58:13 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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Every prez election we get stories in the media about “long-time Republicans” who are voting Dems for various reasons. They usually go something like this: “Gee, I’ve been a conservative Republican all my life. I taught Milton Friedman everything he knew about economics, but gosh darn it, Obama’s brand of socialist collectivism and redistribution so inspired me, I’ve decided to vote for him.”


54 posted on 08/18/2008 6:20:25 AM PDT by driftless2
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