Republicans for Obama?
Proving that the media doesn’t understand Republicans or conservatives, the Chicago Sun Times ran this bit of wishful thinking as hard news yesterday;
There is an interesting phenomenon that has arisen over the last few months: a trend of moderate Republicans who want to vote for Barack Obama. It may seem counterintuitive, conservatives supporting a candidate who wants to tax the wealthy and embrace the conventions in the Kyoto Accord, but there is something in Obama’s message about ridding politics of partisanship that is appealing to these Republicans.
Of course Miss Hunter, the Sun Times columnist supports this contention with tons of evidence – namely three Obama supporters. Let’s look at this crowd, shall we?
 “From a philosophical point of view I still see myself as a Republican,” says Kenneth Wehking, 38, a Denver man who works for a software company. That means being fiscally conservative and moderate on social issues, Wehking believes.
At one time he supported John McCain for those very reasons, but now he is attracted to Obama and belongs to a group called Republicans For Obama. He likes Obama’s philosophy: the need to rid the country of the red/blue divide that has made it impossible to move forth legislation in immigration or health care.
“Obama is one of the first candidates who truly seems to embody a spirit of working together and moving forward,” he says.
Yeah, who cares that Obama is diametrically opposed to every Republican and conservative issue – he wants to move forward while we’re working together. Never mind that we’re moving forward in the wrong direction and working together to bankrupt the nation.
Randy Cooper, a 60-year-old lawyer from Eaton, N.H. — not a member of Republicans for Obama — says he grew up as an Eisenhower Republican. He supported George Herbert Walker Bush and John McCain. But Cooper began to feel that George II and his acolytes, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, were being disingenuous about the reasons for going into Iraq.
At first Cooper supported the war “based on what the president told us.” But then he began to ask questions: “I absolutely feel we were lied to. There were other reasons [Bush] wanted to go into Iraq. It wasn’t just about weapons of mass destruction.”
And Cooper became so disillusioned that in 2004 he voted for John Kerry.
Yeah, this is the guy the media loves – he swallowed every bit of their red meat and voted for Kerry – cuz Kerry was just like Bush only not Bush. Did you know John Kerry had been to Vietnam – that fact is seared, seared in my memory.
“I went to India last February,” recalls Chicagoan Dian Eller, who works in philanthropy. “And the first thing my driver asked was if I had voted for Bush.” Eller did vote for Bush the first time around, but not the second because she “was angry and disappointed about the war.” But the pointed questions from the Indian driver made Eller very uncomfortable. “I am so upset about the way people feel about our country.”
Yeah, it upsets me that an Indian cab driver thinks poorly about my country, too, so much so that I’m willing to vote for a socialist just to appease those ignorant third-worlders who so badly want a say in how our country operates.
Those three folks accurately portray the entire Republican party, though – in the Bizzaro land of media. By the way, I found this article while perusing the Leftist blogs and they seemed pretty excited that you’re going to vote for Obama.
