Posted on 10/25/2008 7:18:49 PM PDT by SmithL
Republican nominee John McCain heads into the final week of a historic presidential election beset by a wave of high-profile GOP defections and the second-guessing and recriminations from ostensibly friendly quarters that losing campaigns attract like flies.
McCain still could pull out an upset on a last-minute wave of voter hesitation about Obama, much like Hillary Rodham Clinton came back in New Hampshire after the polls counted her out, but political professionals are putting their bets on McCain going back to Phoenix, not rising like one.
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell's broadside on Sunday was only the first of the recent GOP defections. The latest arrived Friday from former Republican Gov. William Weld of Massachusetts, who had endorsed former Gov. Mitt Romney over McCain in the GOP primary. Now Weld endorses Obama, calling the Democrat "a once-in-a-lifetime candidate who will transform our politics and restore America's standing in the world."
On Thursday, former Republican Gov. Arne Carlson of Minnesota endorsed Obama and ripped McCain in an essay for the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Carlson said he saw in the Democrat "a remarkably disciplined and focused leader who has the potential to become a truly great president."
Just as striking as the tone of the GOP endorsements for Obama was the noticeable chill coming from the state parties in such McCain must-win states as Virginia and Florida.
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, whom McCain considered and rejected as his running mate, said he had not appeared in any McCain ads because he wasn't asked. Reports aired that the state GOP is saving some of its war chest for the next election cycle. Similar tensions between the McCain campaign and the state party have surfaced in Virginia.
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THIS ARTICLE is from the SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE - enough said!
Are the Drive-by's literally mentally blocking out the existence of Donkey Defectors?
Just exposing the riff raff in the GOP.....helps to know ALL of your enemies....especially when the fools expose themselves.
In a word, yes. They do not fit the pre-scripted media narrative, therefore those stories are discarded.
So that's why they've been spending the past few days in New Mexico, Colorado, and Iowa, right? What planet do these people live on?
What is the Liberal MSM going to say on November 5th after their messiah has inexplicably lost?
I already know. Racism!
There seems to be a lot of “white guilt” going on with the “Most of my best friends are black” Republicans. I can’t believe they would endorse a Marxist.
It doesn’t look as much like defections as much as it does just RINOs being RINOs!
Ur anus .. Not the one near Saturn tho..
Many of the others are worse.
'Nuff said.
Cheers!
You mean..if McCain loses..he is out of the US Senate as well???..did I miss a meeting???
well you can’t say there are no obamacans. But I would have thought they would have disappeared after the primary when it was pretty clear he was not the post-partisan man of hope he claimed to be.
Yeah, OK. Consider the source of this article ...
tsk..tsk
*****I Absolutely Swear by all that’s holy****
I will NEVER cast a vote for, or support in ANY way,
a republican party that ever puts any of these “Repubs” in front of me ever again,,,if they came out for Obama this year.
Im talking vandetta forever,,, the way some seniors basically vote for FDR to this day. They’ll be my example of stick-to-it commitment.
RNC— ARE YOU LISTENING?
I was never going to vote for Obambi, but I did once have hopes that he could bring some healing to our nation by running a post-racial campaign.
That hope died when I learned about Jeremiah Wright...
B.Hussein may do like Chavez and seek to imprison his political opponent.
Shame on these so-called Republicans. Any Republican that is willing to vote for an extreme left-wing socialist with zero executive or foreign policy experience is clearly not a conservative and should not be in the Republican anyway. And it has nothing to do with anti-intellectualism, it has to do with valuing conservative principles. These phony Republicans are not rational, logical or intelligent, since they ignore Obama’s blatant background and voting record and pretent he will be moderate in office because he either speaks or writes “well”.
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