They're Republican red, and true blue to Obama

Los Angeles Times ^ | February 24, 2008 | Mark Z. Barabak

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Chatter bounces off the bare walls and checkered linoleum floor as Josh Pedaline and other Barack Obama supporters burn through their call sheets.

A map of Delaware County splays across a tabletop. Another is laden with cookies, pretzels and other snacks. Volunteers seated elbow-to-elbow peck at cell phones and pitch the Democratic Illinois senator in advance of Ohio's March 4 primary.

The scene is a typical campaign boiler room, except that four of the 13 dialing away are lifelong Republicans, including Pedaline, who reveres former President Reagan and twice voted for President Bush.

"I am so sick and tired of the partisanship," Pedaline says before the start of his shift at the Obama outpost in this affluent suburb north of Columbus. "I don't want to be cheesy and say, 'He'll bring us all together.' But he seems like someone willing to listen to a good idea, even if it comes from a Republican."

Pedaline and other GOP renegades are part of a striking phenomenon this campaign season: They are "Obamacans," as the senator calls them, and they are surfacing in surprising numbers, blurring the red-blue lines that color the nation's politics.

"I'm a conservative, but I have gay friends," Pedaline, 28, says over dinner at a Columbus diner. "I have friends who don't believe in abortion, but I don't condemn them for it. I don't feel like Obama is condemning me for being a Republican."

[astounded]

Once again, someone posted this garbage without so much as a single “Barf Alert”. Come on, people...

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

"I'm a conservative, but I have gay friends," Pedaline, 28, says over dinner at a Columbus diner. "I have friends who don't believe in abortion, but I don't condemn them for it. I don't feel like Obama is condemning me for being a Republican."

Another bs piece with a gay agenda.

[WOSG]

"I am so sick and tired of the partisanship," Pedaline says before the start of his shift at the Obama outpost in this affluent suburb north of Columbus. "I don't want to be cheesy and say, 'He'll bring us all together.' But he seems like someone willing to listen to a good idea, even if it comes from a Republican."

Is she an idiot or a plant?

[NeoCaveman]

"I have friends who don't believe in abortion, but I don't condemn them for it

That's mighty big of ya....

"Where are we going and why are we in this handbasket?"

[WOSG]

A Josh Pedaline in Ohio ...

Josh Pedaline

home

5040 Warren Sharon Rd

Vienna, OH 44473-9687
(330) 394-1673
http://www.whitepages.com/10583/search/FindPerson?extra_listing=mixed&form_mode=opt_b&post_back=1&firstname_begins_with=1&firstname=Josh&name=Pedaline&street=&city_zip=&state_id=OH&localtime=survey

[ryan71]

I’ve never seen a story about “lifelong Democrats” voting for any Republican.

Yet, I’ve seen countless stories, such as this.

[ryan71]

And for all of you who refuse to vote for McCain so you can make a point, you may get grouped in with these “lifelong Republicans” on the Obama train.