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Title: March of the Obamacons
Source: http://www.takimag.com/
URL Source: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/morning_links1/
Published: Mar 31, 2008
Author: Justin Raimondo
Post Date: 2008-03-31 15:04:14 by robin
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March of the Obamacons—The New York Sun notes that the “surge” is working ... that is, the surge of support for Obama among antiwar Republicans. Lincoln Chafee, Douglas Kmiec, Susan Eisenhower, and, perhaps, Senator Chuck Hagel. As the Sun notes: “Asked yesterday on CNN whether he would endorse his party’s presumptive nominee, Mr. Hagel said he would base his support on the candidates’ positions on withdrawing from Iraq.” While neocon hacks of the Rush Limbaugh variety are calling out the thinning ranks of the GOP troops to switch parties for a day and support Hillary, antiwar Republicans are switching and supporting Obama all without prompting from anyone, and the numbers are impressive in Pennsylvania, where the upcoming Democratic primary is going to be decisive. As the Sun reports:

“Of the 140,000 Pennsylvania Republicans and independents who switched registration in the last year to Democrat, the majority are Obama voters, the director of the Franklin and Marshall College poll, G. Terry Madonna, said. Registration for the state’s closed April 22 primary ended March 24. ‘If 2 million people vote in Pennsylvania, which would be a huge number, I think Obama gets 85,000 to 90,000 switchers,’ Mr. Madonna said. ‘That’s 3 or 4 or 5%, which is a big deal.’”

The Ron Paul Republicans are making a difference, albeit, at this point, a purely negative one. Here’s a nice touch from the Sun piece:

“Another Pennsylvania Republican who supports Mr. Obama is retired Major General Walter Stewart, a township supervisor in Burks County who says he has given money both to an anti-Bush Texas Republican, Rep. Ron Paul, and Mr. Hagel, who he said was his first choice for president this election season.

“General Stewart said he was supporting Mr. Obama because he could not endorse a candidate who voted to authorize the war in Iraq, which he compared to King George’s decision to send the British army and Hessian mercenaries into New York Harbor in the Revolutionary War. In 2004, General Stewart said, he supported Mr. Kerry, the Democratic nominee, over Mr. Bush. ‘I think there is a general feeling in the military that this war in Iraq has been a catastrophe,’ he said.”

Gen. Stewart, meet Andy Bacevich ....

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#1. To: Brian S, aristeides, iconoclast, Elliott Jackalope, Arator, christine, Jethro Tull, Cynicom, vast rightwing conspiracy, Red Jones (#0)

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robin  posted on  2008-03-31   15:08:39 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#33. To: robin (#1)

robin, you're a sweetheart of the 1st order, but if Obama is elected he'd make for the most left leaning president in this nations history. I couldn't ever be part of that legacy. Subtract out his political rhetoric about the war (he'll do the CFRs bidding) and I suspect nobody on this forum would touch him w/ a 10' pole. The (s)election cycle is exhibit "A" in my case for not participating in the fraud that is voting. This country would be better if he and the other two empty suits were renditioned off to gitmo never to be heard from again.

Jethro Tull  posted on  2008-03-31   16:52:24 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#47. To: Jethro Tull, FOH, robin (#33)

ghostdogtxn  posted on  2008-03-31   17:03:42 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#64. To: ghostdogtxn (#47)

Ah, pardon me....I don't deserve any of that. When you were wandering about some nameless university, I was working, district by district to elect Ross Perot. Maybe it's me, but I never bought into the nutty smear. He was anti NAFTA/GATT/globalization. Had people listened to us, this economic mess you say I deserve would have been avoided. After he went down I turned my energy to his United We Stand movement - you might have been getting your head shrunk in some online law school by that time. After that fizzle, I worked for Buchanan, giving countless hours and dollars to his political failures. Finally, after 8 years of looking at apple-shaped Americans with glazed over eyes, I dropped out of the voting scam (see Votescam).

So no, I didn't support RP save for $100 worth of beer money that Rowdee has promised to get back for me one day soon and no, I don't deserve any of this mess.

Jethro Tull  posted on  2008-03-31   17:18:17 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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ghostdogtxn  posted on  2008-03-31   17:28:19 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#85. To: ghostdogtxn (#78)

We don't get Ron Paul because we didn't earn him

BS on a stick. RP never, ever had a chance at being selected, and I suspect he knew that himself. I never forgive him for allowing Anderson Cooper to hush him up at his last public debate. Had he been a real revolutionary, he'd have flung one of his penny loafers at that CIA mole's head.

Jethro Tull  posted on  2008-03-31 17:34:43 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#96. To: ghostdogtxn (#78)

You can be like FOH, a purist, and sit on a fence and condemn anyone who decides they should make a comparison of the 3 choices that remain, or you can swallow your bile and pick one of them or another.

There aren't 3 choices.

That's where you're either a liar or an ignoramus...the Founding Fathers and you have little in common.

FOH  posted on  2008-03-31 17:49:17 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#98. To: ghostdogtxn (#78)

But as for sitting on a high horse and calling everyone who isn't a purist a "sell out" or a "traitor" or a "quisling?"

At least you know what you are...

FOH  posted on  2008-03-31 17:50:09 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#168. To: ghostdogtxn (#78)

But making mistakes in pursuit of a better future for my kids enables me to look them in the eye and say, "I tried. I'm sorry I failed, or that there weren't enough of us, but I tried."

That right there is why I am a republican division leader and "supporting" a rep that run on an anti abortion issue yet was a B-52 pilot in the USAF.

I didn't vote for him in the election, but he does not know that and I have access to, and a small amount of influence, to the power structure in the county.

Nasty biz, and I can understand why folks would not want to vote for the counterfit candidates selected for us at the Fed level.

I tell them to vomit on the ballots and mail em in.

I really do.

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