Akzed on August 13, 2008 at 11:43 AM

His footnotes are decidedly poor as well.

Thus no such thing as an “Obamacan”

Usually when someone begins a comment to a talk show host, journalist, or poll taker with “I’m a lifelong Republican, but…” you can rest assured he or she isn’t a lifelong Republican. That’s where the myth of the “Obamacan” gets perpetuated.

How’d all those “Kerrycans” work out for Kerry in ‘04?

crazy_legs on August 13, 2008 at 11:41 AM

Too true. If Lincoln Chafee, the ugly Rita Hauser, and mentally unbalanced James Leach are the best that The One can do re: “Republican” support then he is grasping at straws. As The NY Sun had in its editorial today – the one thing all three have in common is that they are virulently anti ISrael.

My wife is a Democrat and she says she doesn’t trust Obama with running the country. One of her Democrat friends says this is the first time she’ll be voting against someone (Obama) instead of for.
Kafir on August 13, 2008 at 2:14 PM

I wonder how many other stories like that there are.

At this point, I kinda don’t mind that the media likes to play up the ‘republicans will be voting for Obama’ for the upcoming months, and keep the real truth of the matter silent as they are. When Obama doesn’t win. The democrats are really going to go ape sh*t over the election, claim that the gop stole it, and blah blah blah blah…

Maybe some more democrats will actually leave the US like they promised to in the past. Maybe they will riot, and begin their ’second revolution’. I really hope they do. Halliburton didn’t build those detention centers just to let them sit around and collect dust.

My wife is a Democrat and she says she doesn’t trust Obama with running the country. One of her Democrat friends says this is the first time she’ll be voting against someone (Obama) instead of for.

Kafir on August 13, 2008 at 2:14 PM

I can say that one lady that both my husband and I know (the wife of a former co-worker who retired in January), who never liked George W. Bush in the first place, surprised me the other day when she was bad-mouthing Obama for his lack of patriotism. Her reaction to his lack of give-a-damn: “It makes me sick!” When I heard that, my jaw dropped. I thought she’d be the first one to give him the nod, but that isn’t the case.

I believe there are more Democrats and Independents who just can’t stand Obama than people actually know.

atxcowgirl on August 13, 2008 at 12:15 PM

My wife is a Democrat and she says she doesn’t trust Obama with running the country. One of her Democrat friends says this is the first time she’ll be voting against someone (Obama) instead of for.

Obama’s continuing reference to Obamacans is part of his effort to paint himself as the Democratic Ronald Reagan, who changed American politics by drafting large numbers of Democrats into the Republican ranks. Obama wants people to think of himself as a similarly transformational figure, but right now he’s having trouble hanging onto Democrats, let alone sweeping vast numbers of the opposition to his standard. Reagan didn’t pick up Democrats by running to his left in the general election, either; he ran on solid conservative and common-sense themes, and people flocked to his integrity and clear vision of an America freed of the shackles of an overwhelming federal bureaucracy.

That is dead on! Reagan was a man of substance who had a definitive philosophical compass. Every time I hear or read about anyone comparing Obama to Reagan I simply want to PUKE! He is the antithesis of everything Reagan ever stood for – - – and Reagan was at his absolute best OFF script, too!

Obama is a phony, a big nothing, fittingly symbolized by a huge “O” (zero) as his logo. There is no “there” there, let alone anything even remotely resembling a great man like Ronald Reagan!

I am no fan of the Bushes either. When Bush started with his “compassionate conservative” bunk and letting Uncle Teddy write ANYTHING I knew there was going to be a problem. He talked the talk and that was it.

And I have never believed the party has been “taken over” by evangelicals or social-issue folks. The problem is we elect a bunch of people who don’t have the stones to stand up for CONSERVATIVE values. They get there and want to be liked and accepted by the DC crowd and the first thing they do is bend over (See Trent Lott in 2000).

We have a lack of real movement leadership at the top. I think it stinks that our greatest conservative voice is on the radio and has no equal in a position of power. As great a Rush is he isn’t making laws, appointing judges or creating budgets.

Of course McCain won’t change anything but losing an election for “principles” is just dumb. Will the Party really learn anything? No! All that can happen is the election of someone so far to the left and so ill-prepared for the job (as evidenced especially by the last few days) that the country will be left in worse shape than when Carter got shown the door.

What kind of discussions are you having with the neighbors because they seem to be grossly uninformed.

Cavuto had a guy on yesterday claiming to be a REAGAN REPUBLICAN who was going to vote for Obama. Only brain damage can take you from Reagan to Obama.
woodman on August 13, 2008 at 12:28 PM

My feelings as well.

Obamacan = Jackalope.
Hannibal Smith on August 13, 2008 at 1:18 PM

A more likley explanation to this phenomenon.

/Pheon ma Om nom nom nom nom….

How far left can you be and still consider yourself a Republican to think that John McCain is too dangerously conservative for America, and the country is better off if you endorse Barack Obama.

jon1979 on August 13, 2008 at 1:04 PM

Jim Leach is really liberal. He is also a holier-than-thou guy when it comes to ethics issues, never took PAC money in his campaigns, threw lobbyists out of his office, etc.

Leach’s name was on the Gramm-Leach-Bliley bill but he had almost nothing to do with its passage – it was shepherded by Tom Bliley, who chaired the House Commerce Committee. Leach got his name on it when he saw that it had the votes to pass, and decided that as chairman of the Banking Committee it would be embarrassing to not have his name on it.

Leach was so poorly regarded as chairman of the Banking Committee that when the committees were reorganized to recognize the new regulatory landscape provided by G-L-B, he was not picked to chair the new Financial Services Committee; Mike Oxley was.

Cavuto had a guy on yesterday claiming to be a REAGAN REPUBLICAN who was going to vote for Obama. Only brain damage can take you from Reagan to Obama.

woodman on August 13, 2008 at 12:28 PM

Not necessarily. There are some former Reaganites who really hate the Bushes; they think that W. has ruined the Republican Party that Reagan built and that the party needs to lose this election and purge itself of the remaining “Bushism.” There are also some longtime Republicans who hate the takeover of the party by evangelicals and social-issue conservatives (Reagan was neither) and think McCain won’t change this. I’ve had this dicsussion many times with a few of my neighbors who have never voted for a Democrat but are thinking of voting for Obama. They are not brain damaged – they are average voters who haven’t seen all the nastiness we have seen out of the Obama campaign and have not become afraid enough of him yet.

Obama’s continuing reference to Obamacans is part of his effort to paint himself as the Democratic Ronald Reagan, who changed American politics by drafting large numbers of Democrats into the Republican ranks.

The Democrats that voted for Ronald Reagan were called “Reagan Democrats” meaning Democrats that chose to support Mr. Reagan while remaining Democrats. By contrast, Sen. Obama seeks to claim that Republicans that support him are “Obamacans” rather than “Obama Republicans”. Slapping his name on these people and subsuming their Republican affiliation comes across to me as very arrogant. By contrast, I’ve heard Democrats that support Sen. McCain more often referred to as “McCain Democrats” as far back as 2000 and far more often than as “McCainocrats”.

atxcowgirl on August 13, 2008 at 12:15 PM

On the other hand I heard a rumor that my father who has always been a Republican will vote for Obama. Course he’s dead but that has never stopped the Democrats.