Posted on 07/06/2008 9:18:40 PM PDT by FocusNexus
The "Obamacans" that Sen. Barack Obama used to joke about - Republican apostates who whispered their support for his candidacy - have morphed into a new phenomenon, or syndrome, as detractors like to call it: the Obamacons.
These are conservatives who have publicly endorsed the presumptive Democratic nominee, dissidents from the brain trust of think tanks, ex-officials and policy magazines that have fueled the Republican Party since the 1960s. Scratch the surface of this elite, and one finds a profound dismay that is far more damaging to the GOP than the usual 10 percent of registered Republicans expected to switch sides during a presidential election.
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Again? It never stops. They just sprinkle more and more crack on it.
Would those be Friscocons?
I don’t know any personally - yet. But the people quoted in the article are enough to convince me that there are more out there. Milton Friedman’s son, FGS!
OMG, I’m out of Kool Aid, can someone show me where I can get a refill, help puleeeze!
Do they still publish the Chronicle?
I thought it went the way of the Berkeley Barb...
Only in Soviet Russia...but sometimes it's hard to tell the difference, these days.
This guy really cracks me up though. If he thinks being in favor of fighting for our country is not being conservative, then he is wrong about conservatism. Since when has conservatism meant isolationism?
"People don't understand that there has always been a small but very significant element of conservatives who have been against the war from day one and who, like me, also hate George Bush and think he's the most incompetent president in American history," said Bruce Bartlett, a supply-side economist who coined the term Obamacons. "The few people who are slavishly pro-Republican, live or die, slavishly pro-Bush like the Weekly Standard crowd, have gotten lot more publicity than they deserve."
Conservatives for Obama?
Satanists for Christ?
Nazi’s for Hitler?
Flying pigs more likely.
That moonbat is a paleo. Paleos are so far off the right side of the spectrum, they’ve crossed the international dateline to the left.
What a tasty little morsel of a quote.
And that shift is only gonna get worse.
Democrats For McCain (2008) started their support back in 2006. Howard Dean staffers went to work for McCain in 2006.
The media is silent about the Democrats for McCain.
Instead they gush about the black voters who are leaving the GOP for Obama. Doesn’t mean they agree with any of his ideas. They find it symbolic.
That guy in the article may have coined the term “Obamacons” (which actually sounds like his PR campaign Obama “cons”) but I’d always heard it as “Obamicans” as in Obama-Republicans (like Reagan-Democrats).
Obama does not have the policies any conservative would support. Not a one.
McCain doesn’t have many policies for conservatives either but his stance is to the right of Obama on virtually all of the issues (except perhaps immigration but I wouldn’t even count Obama out on that one).
Conservative in SF must have some freaked out meaning I can’t comprehend.
The Obamacons Who Worry McCain by Robert Novak, June 2008
What is an “Obamacon?” The phrase surfaced in January to describe British conservatives entranced by Barack Obama. On March 13 the American Spectator broadened the term to cover all “conservative supporters” of the Democratic presidential candidate.
Good grief! Haven’t the liberals figured out yet there is a difference between a “conservative” and a “republican” ..??
NO CONSERVATIVE will ever vote for a left-winger - NEVER, EVER.
A Tiger begat a mouse.
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