Some Republicans Emerge To Endorse Barack Obama

WASHINGTON â?? With an eye to the general election and the Pennsylvania primary, some Republicans who oppose President Bush's war policy are endorsing Senator Obama.

Call them the Obamacans: They are against continuing the Iraq war and reject what they see as Mr. Bush's unconstitutional buildup of executive power. While the conservative Republican base rejected Senator McCain in the early primaries for his push for bipartisan campaign finance regulation and amnesty for illegal immigrants, the Arizona senator's hawkish support for the Iraq war has alienated what was once his national constituency, anti-Bush Republicans.

The Obamacans include a former senator of Rhode Island, Lincoln Chafee; a former senior Justice Department official under President Reagan and senior legal adviser to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, Douglas Kmiec, and a granddaughter of President Eisenhower, Susan Eisenhower. The group one day may include Senator Hagel, a Republican of Nebraska, who has co-sponsored Iraq withdrawal legislation with leading Democrats. 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.

The Illinois senator's appeal to anti-war Republicans likely will affect the outcome of the upcoming primaries, especially Pennsylvania, where conservatives are being urged by radio host Rush Limbaugh to vote tactically for Senator Clinton in an effort to prolong the fight for the Democratic nomination.
Some Republicans Emerge To Endorse Barack Obama - March 31, 2008 - The New York Sun

Ann Coulter isn't a McCain backer either.....no big deal.

Have a good one!:s4:

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WASHINGTON â?? With an eye to the general election and the Pennsylvania primary, some Republicans who oppose President Bush's war policy are endorsing Senator Obama.

Call them the Obamacans: They are against continuing the Iraq war and reject what they see as Mr. Bush's unconstitutional buildup of executive power. While the conservative Republican base rejected Senator McCain in the early primaries for his push for bipartisan campaign finance regulation and amnesty for illegal immigrants, the Arizona senator's hawkish support for the Iraq war has alienated what was once his national constituency, anti-Bush Republicans.

The Obamacans include a former senator of Rhode Island, Lincoln Chafee; a former senior Justice Department official under President Reagan and senior legal adviser to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, Douglas Kmiec, and a granddaughter of President Eisenhower, Susan Eisenhower. The group one day may include Senator Hagel, a Republican of Nebraska, who has co-sponsored Iraq withdrawal legislation with leading Democrats. 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.

The Illinois senator's appeal to anti-war Republicans likely will affect the outcome of the upcoming primaries, especially Pennsylvania, where conservatives are being urged by radio host Rush Limbaugh to vote tactically for Senator Clinton in an effort to prolong the fight for the Democratic nomination.
Some Republicans Emerge To Endorse Barack Obama - March 31, 2008 - The New York Sun

Ann Coulter isn't a McCain backer either.....no big deal.

Have a good one!:s4:

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This is definitely going to be a factor for McCain. Opposition to the war is not only a Democratic issue, so maybe this accounts for part of the large number of Republicans registering as Democrats in Pennsylvania.

McCain is losing the anti-war Republicans and haivng trouble keeping evangelicals, and he is losing Republicans angry over his imigration views, his lack of credibility on the economy, and campaign finance reform. He's not really assembling the coalition he will need. I don't think it looks good for him.

Still, it's 7 months or so from the election, so a lot can change. If people start to see the "surge" as a real success, then McCain will get some credit for standing by that strategy. And the Democrats could always just lose it for themselves too if they can't get their nominee settled.

But at this point, it doesn't seem like McCain is making much of the advantage he has with the Republican nomination being locked up while the Democrats are still fighting the primary. He should be using the free time building support and party unity and raising the money, but it doesn't seem like he is. I think he is going down in November.

LOL....even with all that he's still pulling ahead of Clinton and Obama in the polls.

Problems with the evangelicals? He's the only anti-abortion candidate left....I don't see any problems locking down their votes.

Have a good one!:s4:

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Problems with the evangelicals? He's the only anti-abortion candidate left....I don't see any problems locking down their votes.

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No doubt he will get their votes --- they just might not do the hard work they have done on behalf of Republican candidates in the past. Neither party has to do anything to get the votes of their true believer wings. But they both have to do what it takes to get those true believers to run the registration drives, knock on doors, man the phones, rasie the money, put up the posters, etc. I don't think McCain is going to get as much of that kind of work out of evangelicals as other Republicans have in the past.

If there's a baby to save they'll be a knockin'. You know the crowd.

Have a good one!:s4:

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Good for you, Fran!

Obama's lead in popular vote and delegate count is essentially too high for Hillary to beat. There was definitely Republican sabotage votes in Ohio and Texas, and there will be in Pennsylvania, but nothing short of huge mistake by Obama will enable Hillary to win. She is very vocal in saying that she'll seek to take the nomination regardless of how people vote. It really pisses me off that ANY candidate would straight up say they didn't care how people voted... and just want to steal the nomination from the candidate people actually voted for.

McCain just blatantly says he'll keep on doing everything Bush is doing, so essentially McCain is just Bush III ... I know there's way more anti-war people out there than pro-war people at this point, so I think that'd might be enough to help Obama beat McCain. At least, that's what I'm hoping. I'm tired of fucking neo-cons.