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This is total crap. No real Republican would ever consider voting for B.O.
This is wishful thinking. I know of no Republicans, except for the mainline type who vote for guys like Spector, who would even consider Obama. Most of us are terrified of the cryptofascism of Barry and his Obamabots. I know a lot of blue dog dems who feel the same way. What people say and what they do are different things. Obama will get crushed in November.
Who are those people, actually? They hate Bush so much that they think Obama will be better than Bush? Or, perhaps, they are like some Freepers, who want to see him elected either to 'teach a lesson to the Republicans' or 'let President Obama crush the presidency that people will realize how bad he is. Then, we might get a real conservative to the WH in 2012.'?
where to start with this one?
“Though he revealed political inexperience by thinking what he said”,
umm no, he screwed the pooch by saying what he thinks.
“habitual Republican voters so entranced by Barack Obama’s potential to lead the nation that they plan to vote for him in November.” We keep hearing this kool aid served up by the media about what an inclusive, all embracing wonderful person obama is. PuF#$%$%lease. we are supposed to believe the most hard core leftist senator, is going to unite the country?. uh huh. right. if the most conservative senator was also running, (if there is one), the media would howl at the notion that he could be a unifying force. he would just be a right wing fanatic.
is the media that blinded by their obama love fest?, or are they just hoping to tell the lie often enough to the sheeple, to get him in the white house?
Novak has jumped the shark BIG TIME. This is such utter crap!
These apostate Republicans never were deluded into considering him anything other than a doctrinaire liberal who wants a more intrusive government with higher taxation and tougher regulation
YEA RIGHT! These were Republicans! The phony ones that CNN puts on each election "I was a lifelong Pubbie but this time am voting hard core RAT..."
yeah...i’ve met a few of these republicans who like Obama.
So what.
I live in a blue blue state...these are NOT exactly the republican base anyway.
Obama’s comments will have pissed off enough of the “bitter” swing vote in those very necessary.... “bitter” Swing states.
>> I have encountered habitual Republican voters so entranced by Barack Obama’s potential to lead the nation that they plan to vote for him in November.
>>they have leaned toward him as an exceptional candidate in the mold of John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan
>> George W. Bush’s failed presidency.
Novak had a lobotomy? I don’t recall reading about it anywhere. When did he have it?
Oh, I get it. This was his April Fools column and it got misplace.
“Why do ordinary Americans vote against their own economic interests to support Republicans?”
Higher taxes are good for my economic interests?!?
I will continue to vote Republican and live in the real world.
Obama would be a big loser in the election. The older dem party is totally racist and will not vote Obama especially in the South and mid West so you do not get the middle age and older whites. Good luck getting the Asians, Hispanics to vote for him they really dislike blacks, and the Jews have had an eye opener concerning blacks in the last 2 primaries good luck with them also.
The republicans will not go and vote for McCain but they will go and vote against Obama. You might not get the most conservative but you gain the blue dog dems in droves. Probably a low turn out election but all McCain has to do is keep his mouth shut and run commercials on the stupid liberal things Obama has already said.
www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-oped0420chapmanapr20,1,2975893.column
chicagotribune.com
About Obama’s terrorist acquaintance
Steve Chapman
April 20, 2008
But his comfortable association with an unrepentant former terrorist should induce queasiness in anyone who shares the humane values that Obama extols.
When the issue came up in Wednesday’s Democratic debate, the Illinois senator tried to duck it. “This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who’s a professor of English in Chicago, who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from,” he said. He added that to suggest “knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values, doesn’t make much sense.”
Obama went on, “I’m also friendly with Tom Coburn, one of the most conservative Republicans in the United States Senate, who during his campaign once said that it might be appropriate to apply the death penalty to those who carried out abortions. Do I need to apologize for Mr. Coburn’s statements?”
This exercise in moral equivalence is unconvincing, if not dishonest. Would Obama be friendly with someone who actually bombed abortion clinics and defends that conduct? Not likely. But he is friendly with William Ayers, a leader of the radical Weather Underground, which in the 1970s carried out numerous bombings, including one inside the U.S. Capitol. (Though the last person who should object is Hillary Clinton, whose husband pardoned two Weather Underground members.)
Obama minimized his relationship by acknowledging only that he knows Ayers. But they have quite a bit more of a connection than that. He’s appeared on panels with Ayers, served on a foundation board with him and held a 1995 campaign event at the home of Ayers and his wife, fellow former terrorist Bernardine Dohrn. Ayers even gave money to one of his campaigns.
It’s not as though Ayers and Dohrn have denied or repudiated their crimes. After emerging from years in hiding, they escaped federal prosecution because of government misconduct in gathering evidence, but they don’t pretend they were innocent. In 2001, Ayers said, “I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.”
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[Obama Republicans could produce a Democratic presidential landslide.]
Hummm, someone smokin wacky-weed.