The Hollywood Liberal

Republicans defect to the Obama camp

Times Online UK
Excerpt:
DISILLUSIONED supporters of President George W Bush are defecting to Barack Obama, the Democratic senator for Illinois, as the White House candidate with the best chance of uniting a divided nation.

Tom Bernstein went to Yale University with Bush and co-owned the Texas Rangers baseball team with him. In 2004 he donated the maximum $2,000 to the president’s reelection campaign and gave $50,000 to the Republican National Committee. This year he is switching his support to Obama. He is one of many former Bush admirers who find the Democrat newcomer appealing.

Matthew Dowd, Bush’s chief campaign strategist in 2004, announced last month that he was disillusioned with the war in Iraq and the president’s “my way or the highway” style of leadership – the first member of Bush’s inner circle to denounce the leader’s performance in office.

Although Dowd has yet to endorse a candidate, he said the only one he liked was Obama. “I think we should design campaigns that appeal, not to 51% of the people, but bring the country together as a whole,” Dowd said.

But last week a surprising new name joined the chorus of praise for the antiwar Obama – that of Robert Kagan, a leading neoconservative and co-founder of the Project for the New American Century in the late 1990s, which called for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.

HL’s Take
The Republicans are done. Everyone now sees what total A**holes they are, on every conceivable issue. They are doomed in the next election if they don’t change their votes on Iraq. Bush’s approval rating is down to 28% and the war is even less popular. The republicans in congress are stuck between a rock and a hard place. Either go along with the Insane Failure Monkey and lose their seat in the next election. (which some of them will be stupid enough to do. They will stay on the Titanic all the way down) or change their vote on Iraq so we can end this retarded death fest already. The next President will have a super majority in the house and Senate so they can immediately begin to undo all the unspeakable horrors that Bush has done to this country immediately. They also better hold him and Cheney accountable. By that I mean Levenworth for life.

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