[Vision2020] Turncoats: Republicans Endorsing Obama

[No Weatherman]

Mr. Hansen:

If you listen to the media, this race will be the largest landslide
since Reagan had mercy on Mondale and let him have Minnesota.

But as the press continues to gin up excitement for Obama, I want to
remind you that four years ago, with one week left in the race, Kerry
led Bush in the national polls by 5%, and currently, the two most
accurate polls of the last two presidential elections (Zogby and IBD)
currently have Obama by 3 points.

I also want to remind you that if you stop and think about it, it's a
Farraking miracle that McCain is even in this race.

He's running as the representative of the incumbent party for the last
8 years and incumbent party's always face uphill battles.

He's running as the representative of the incumbent party who's
current president is the least popular president in American history.

He's running at the very moment when the economy hit the abyss, and
the incumbent party always takes the blame.

He's running against one of the most popular candidates of all time.

He himself is one of the most unpopular candidates, at least as far as
his party is concerned, of all time.

All things considered, McCain has Obama right where he wants him.

One other thing.

Don't forget the Bradley Effect.

It may play no role this year or it may make the difference.

People tell lies all the time. Look at Ms. Mix.

You shouldn't be surprised that someone would lie to a pollster for
fear of being thought a racist by someone like the five or six morons
in this forum who have called me a racist instead of engaging my
points.


On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
> 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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