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Another Republican leaves the dark side.
My brother is 70 years old and has been a Republican all his life and has never voted anything, but Republican. However, he is quite politically engaged and stays informed. I now, if he is so informed how could he have voted for Bush twice? Well muscle memory is a hard thing to over come sometimes. Anyway to my point. After listening to the flap over Wright and listening to Obama speak a number of times he just committed to vote for Obama and made his first donation to the campaign.
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I love stories like this!
April 30, 2008 4:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
There is another story up at Dkos like this. Antecdotally it's great. And there are lots of similar Hillary stories. My dad is a 70 year old Republican (figher pilot) who has given $ to Obama to keep Hillary away. He likes Obama to some degree but I always figured he would vote for McCain. Interestingly, he indicated he may vote for Obama. (Of course, he thinks he's a communist and hopes he won't implement all those lefty policies : ))
But what I still can't my head around is with all these stories out there, why are the polls reflecting this to a larger degree? I'm sure it will all fall in line once Obama is the man but it's perplexing...
April 30, 2008 4:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
As the `60's Civil Rights marchers used to sing, "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize". We are stuck with the Billary nuisance for now but it is a good challenge for Obama to practice for the general as the crap will only deepen when he finally claims the right to the nomination. It's never a skate against Team Clinton and being tested on the black ice can only help in the end as Obama can weave together his teflon suit he'll need for the general. Now that Camp Billary is claiming the process will be done by June, she will look very self-serving if Willy can not muscle the necessary supers to steal the crown and the only arrow left in their quiver would be to threaten going Liebermann on the party if they don't get their way. It'll be up to the Elders to show who finally has the balls to stand up for something as important as this election/Nation. I feel recharged already.
May 1, 2008 12:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
The media and the Clinton campaign and surrogates and the GOP machine keep piling on Obama, and yet we keep hearing these stories.
It's called "backfire."
April 30, 2008 4:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Followed by blowback............
April 30, 2008 7:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, I think we are a little battle weary and feel like we have been running low ammunition, not to mention moral. So look at this as a small re-supply mission. Then throw in 3 supers today, Mclatchy pointing out Hillary's jobs TV ad in Indiana is a bit more than just misleading.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/election2008/story/35337.html
And all in all a pretty damn good day for the good guys
April 30, 2008 4:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's the most recommended story on McClatchy's site now.
April 30, 2008 4:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
That made my day.
April 30, 2008 11:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Don't know if many here read Rove's piece in Newsweek on what Obama needs to do, but it was spot on, regardless of how you feel about the messenger. The Wright story has not become the Swift Boat for Obama. He needs to start taking on McCain and stop addressing the Wright issue or he will fall into the trap of being defined by the issue. Let the surrogates go to war on Billary. Barack needs to rerresh his message, put teeth into it and hammer John W. McBush 24/7. Do the defining and put McBush on the defense where he has to explain what he is or isn't. Grab the message and don't let go. And for the love of Mike, don't let another shoe drop.
May 1, 2008 12:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now this is a story I can get my teeth into!
April 30, 2008 5:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Genghis, Is that you ?
May 1, 2008 1:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
Nahahahahah.
May 1, 2008 10:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
Goatlife is my new favorite TPM character.
April 30, 2008 5:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
wait, wait, is goatlife the anti-gotalife? I started calling gotalife "goatlife" now I guess I can't do that no more!
April 30, 2008 6:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Switch to gottaLIE... ;-)
April 30, 2008 6:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
McClatchy's so good.
Thanks for the post - it is a good day for the good guys. We needed some r&r, too.
April 30, 2008 6:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here's the Hillary spin:
You heard it here first, people.
April 30, 2008 6:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Congrats, js! Trust me, I know how good it feels when a member of the family finally sees the light! :-)
I have a couple of Republican brothers, myself. Hard core. Limbaugh-listenin', FoxNews-watchin', bumper sticker-sportin' Republicans. It breaks my heart.
I had thought the disaster that was the Bush Administration might have given them reason to reconsider their loyalty to the Republican Party; but alas, they "cling" to it even though they can see it doesn't even resemble anything close to conservative anymore.
April 30, 2008 6:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Heh, back in December, a Kenyan-American friend of mine described himself as an "Independent", and said he'd consider voting for a Republican in 2004. His siblings and I tried to talk him down: "You can't be serious. Which Republican?" (At the time, we all assumed, to varying degrees, that the Democratic Party wasn't ready for any black nominee.) Fortunately, Obama's stellar candidacy cured us of our cynicism, and my friend of his wavering ...
April 30, 2008 7:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
My brother-in-law is another life long Republican, ex-military, very conservative, but he has come to despise George Bush.
However, he won't vote for Obama because - wait for it - he's a muslim.
April 30, 2008 8:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Same here.
May 1, 2008 3:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
I guess the good news for Obama is that he can't possibly be associated with Wright in that case...
May 1, 2008 8:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
When I was volunteering in Philly I had a very similar experience with an older ex-Republican veteran. He was awesome! He told me about his long struggle over whether to leave the Republican party and that he finally joined the Dem side because of Barack Obama's stance on the Iraq war. I really liked him. He had a "Veterans for Obama" pin on and tried to help around the headquarters in any way possible.
I felt like a small bridge had been gapped that day. Common ground! It rocks!
April 30, 2008 8:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
ARGH!
GO REPUBLICANS! CORPORATE RAIDING, PIRATE STYLE!
YOU WANT THE 1990'S, BRING ME BACK TO THE 1980'S!
ARGH!
April 30, 2008 10:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
After listening to the flap over Wright and listening to Obama speak a number of times he just committed to vote for Obama and made his first donation to the campaign.
Strikes me as weird but whatever. I voted republican through the 76 presidential election but couldn't do it in 80. They lost me then.
May 1, 2008 1:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
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