[Vision2020] Turncoats: Republicans Endorsing Obama

[Tom Hansen]

>From the writers at Wonkette: The DC Gossip at

http://wonkette.com/403815/every-republican-endorsing-obama

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TURNCOATS 
Every Republican Endorsing Obama

The past week has been so insane and frantic — thanks, Ashley Todd! — that 
we never got around to mentioning the daily endorsements of “That One” by 
myriad Republican politicians and power-brokers. So let’s run down the 
list, and maybe even figure out what it all means, at this late stage in 
the game.

Colin Powell: Jesus, was that already a week ago? So what was the “Powell 
Effect,” if any? Pretty good, considering most endorsements don’t matter 
much. Gallup says 12% of voters are “more likely” to vote for Obama. And 
80% of voters had actually heard about the endorsement, which is pretty 
good for you dummies. 

Ken Adelman: Neo-con insider, hired by Rumsfeld in the Nixon 
Administration and was a top guy both times Rumsfeld was defense 
secretary — under Ford and Bush Junior. “He introduced Cheney to Paul 
Wolfowitz at a Washington brunch the day Reagan was sworn in,” the New 
Yorker writes. Well, maybe he’s just trying to get some good karma before 
he dies. No impact with voters; nobody really knows him outside of 
Washington. But it gives more elderly Republican elitists the freedom to 
also break with McCain, because McCain is “impetuous, inconsistent, and 
imprudent; ending up just plain weird,” according to Adelman. 

William Weld: A U.S. attorney and Justice Dept. official hired by Giuliani 
during the Reagan administration, Weld was the Republican governor of 
Massachusetts from 1991-1997. God, it’s really the same dozen people 
who’ve been fucking up this country for half a century. So, Weld’s also 
trying to avoid the Fires of Hell, and has heartily endorsed the black 
communist Barack Obama. 

Arne Carlson: Former governor of Minnesota, lifelong Republican, 
this “maverick” said batshit goon Michele Bachmann’s freakout on Hardball 
helped make his decision to endorse Obama. Will matter to moderate 
Republicans and independents in MN, and could hurt Bachmann’s bloodied 
campaign, too. 

Scott McClellan: The former Bush spokesman is already a Demon-Queer to the 
wingnuts because of his mildly critical book about his White House years, 
so his Obama endorsement will not sway those people. But he’s well known 
because he was on the teevee all the time, promoting Bush and the GOP, so 
this could help in the mysteriously “undecided” category. Or those people 
might vote for Jennifer Aniston, who knows? 

C.C. Goldwater: The granddaughter of conservative saint Barry Goldwater 
says she will say yes to Kenyan Socialism, too — along with “my siblings 
and a few cousins.” The libertarian side of the GOP peeled away long 
before Obama got the Democratic nomination, but this might still matter in 
places where the Goldwater name is still powerful. Places like Arizona, 
where “favorite son” John McCain was famously hated by Barry Goldwater. 

Charles Fried: The solicitor general in Reagan’s second term and one of 
those few “conservative intellectuals” left on the planet, Fried was 
actually part of the McCain campaign until last week. After he endorsed 
Obama, Fried “asked that his name be removed from the several [McCain] 
campaign-related committees on which he serves.”

The real impact of these nearly daily defections from the GOP to Obama may 
just be in their relentlessness, the way each morning’s news has yet 
another prominent conservative renouncing John McCain and endorsing the 
Democrat. There is no modern precedent for this kind of painful, public 
dumping on the Republican candidate by Republican stalwarts — the last 
time it happened was 1964, when moderate Republicans washed their hands of 
Barry Goldwater for being an “extremist” and a scary loon who would get us 
all nuked. He wouldn’t become a saint until Reagan was elected in 1980.

And it was Ronald Reagan who, while running for governor of California 
just two years after LBJ slaughtered Goldwater 61%-38%, created the “11th 
Commandment,” to keep Republicans from eating their own:

“Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.”

That’s dead now, too.

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Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
 
"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college 
students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."

- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)


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