Republicans and Conservatives who supported Obama for President in 2008

Freerepublic | August 10, 2011 | Robin Masters

[cherry]

all this just makes me glad I don’t give to party activities...only candidates that I approve of....

[PALIN SMITH]

Racists all!!

[submarinerswife]

Where are they now??

This is just one that made me want to puke:

Larry Hunter, Former President Reagan Policy Advisor

"I suspect Obama is more free-market friendly than he lets on. He taught at the University of Chicago, a hotbed of right-of-center thought. His economic advisers, notably Austan Goolsbee, recognize that ordinary citizens stand to gain more from open markets than from government meddling."

[Chi-townChief]

Michael Savage who, in 2008, claimed there wasn’t a dime’s bit of difference between 0bama and McCain ...

[princeofdarkness]

Apparently according to Wiki, he also supported John F. Kerry for President in 2004. I guess he has taken leave of his senses in his old age.

[rwa265]

“WHAT legislative record?.....”

His legislative record as being the most liberal Senator in 2007.

[EDINVA]

The Virginia “exception,” Linwood Holton, former GOP governor, is the father-in-law of Timmy “the Eyebrows” Kaine, former D governor of VA, former chair of the DNC, and current D candidate for the US Senate. Maybe that explains it?

[Arrowhead1952]

Andrew Sullivan, Columnist for the Atlantic Monthly

"Obama's legislative record,

Voting "Present" is a legislative record? Who knew?

[logician2u]

There are several on this rather diverse list of 0bama supporters who might well have gone with the Republican candidate had he been someone other than the deranged McCain. I see their choice as being more against McCain rather than for hope and change.

They must have felt obliged to pick what they considered the lesser of two evils rather than a candidate they might have some philosophical agreement with. These otherwise rational but sadly misinformed individuals were stuck on the horns of a false dichotomy which had them blubbering incoherent thoughts such as "a beacon of hope."

The dilemma was brought about by election laws that better serve the interests of career politicians than the people who are their presumed masters.

Two changes will have to be made, as I see it, before this country can once again be the Republic it was set up to be:

1. Selection of a party's candidate for office--any office, state or national--must be done only by those voters actually affiliated with that party; and
2. A form of Approval Voting should be implemented to reduce the likelihood of a "spoiler" (e.g., Ross Perot, Ralph Nader) and allow the electorate the opportunity to cast votes for whomever they please without feeling their vote was wasted.

Imagine if you will how the 2008 election might have come out had Republicans actually chosen their own candidate instead of the one foisted upon them by the media and Democrats (but I repeat myself).

Alternatively, consider what might have happened if a third-party candidate had emerged at some point, one who appealed to that large portion of the electorate dissatisfied with both the leading R and the D candidates for their respective party's nomination, but whose supporters were willing to settle for one of the others if his favorite candidate didn't have the votes to win.

If voters were allowed to vote for more than one candidate, this by itself would encourage formation of alternative parties (Tea Party, anyone?) and likely offer a wider spectrum of candidates for office. A higher voter turnout could also result, as the polling organizations wouldn't have crowned the winner ahead of time in many cases. None of this "leaning Republican" or "leaning Democrat" BS from Gallup that corrals the entire nation into pens of elephants and donkeys. We're not even sheep and goats.

We cannot let this country stumble along forever under the so-called two-party system or it will eventually become a one-party dictatorship.

[Eva]

In WA state, they are talking about reviving the Green Party.

[logician2u]

Who’s they? Greens or somebody else?

[Eva]

The “they” are democrats who are unhappy with the direction that they Democrat party in WA state is taking. They are split over a planned coal terminal that will bring coal trains up the coast of WA forcing a split between the environmentalists and the unions.

The current Democrat governor has a 35% approval rating and it is expected that the governorship will go to a Republican for the first time in 50 years.

[Publius]

...and it is expected that the governorship will go to a Republican for the first time in 50 years.

Not 50. The last Republican governor, John Spellman, was elected in 1980 and lost in 1984 to Booth Gardner.

[Eva]

Thanks for the correction . I didn’t live in WA state at that time.

I hear that the Florida health care bill case just cleared another hurdle. It’s interesting that the WA news media don’t mention that McKenna signed onto that case as the state attorney general, in opposition to both the governor and the state legislature.

[Signalman]

I would like someone such as, say Dennis Miller, to interview these dopes one-on-one and ask them, “Well, what do you think now”?

Some of them will give BS answers in order to assuage their guilt about supporting this bozo, but a number of them would probably give some candid responses, and own up to the fact that they got hoodwinked, just like the other fools who voted for Obama.

[txrefugee]

This list should be titled, “The Biggest Losers.” And this is the group who should pay a special “Stupidity Tax,” levied on those who shouldn’t have a bank account since they are obviously incompetent in financial matters.

[mjp]

Lowell Weicker, Former Governor and Senator from Connecticut

Is not a Republican or Conservative. He's belongs to the Pompous Jackass party. We hate him here.

He won the Kennedy Profiles in Courage Award for raising taxes