Current and Former Republicans Line Up for Obama

Spencer Collins · #1 (**permalink**) 08-12-2008, 05:17 PM

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Barack Obama’s campaign is rolling out a number of centrist Republicans who are endorsing the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee over Republican rival John McCain — in a show of his ability to win cross-over votes.

A conference call Tuesday featured former Iowa Rep. Jim Leach, former White House intelligence adviser Rita Hauser and former Rhode Island Sen. Lincoln Chafee, who represented his state as a Republican, but switched to become a Democrat so he could vote for Obama in the primary.

“I’m convinced that the national interest demands a new approach to our interaction with the world,” said Leach, adding that Obama offers the leadership to do that.

Leach lost his bid for another term in office in 2006. He was a foreign service officer before being elected to Congress and served as head of both the International Relations and Banking committees.

Leach predicted that a lot of Republicans and independents are going to be attracted by Obama’s campaign.

The Obama camp also pointed journalists to reports that Fairbanks, Alaska, Mayor Jim Whitaker, a Republican, also has announced his support for Obama.

Obama’s GOP supporters’ criticisms of McCain are familiar ones — that he’d represent four more years of Bush-Cheney policies, particularly in foreign affairs. Hauser complained that McCain’s statement on Georgia was “bellicose” in threatening to kick Russia out of the Group of Eight industrialized nations, and that Obama’s statement was much more appropriately internationalist.

They also reversed a line McCain has used against Obama. While McCain has said Obama wants to put party before country, Hauser and Leach said that in supporting Obama, they were putting country before party.

Chaffee complained that McCain was fine in 2000 when he voted against Bush tax cuts and drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, but that he’s no longer the same man.

Leach, meanwhile, touted Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska as a Republican who might fit in an Obama administration.

The group says it’s not fundraising, but plans to start a website this week where Republicans can go to find out more about why Obama would be better than McCain — whom they say they respect. The site will also be a gathering place for interfacing with other like-minded Republicans.

Current and Former Republicans Line Up for Obama - America’s Election HQ

Oh well..not to worry,they will have no more impact than the few Republicans and Independents who have decided to vote for Bob Barr.McCain is so far ahead that some say he has the election in the bag!..

cnredd · #2 (**permalink**) 08-12-2008, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Spencer Collins

Current and Former Republicans Line Up for Obama

Oh well..not to worry,they will have no more impact than the few Republicans and Independents who have decided to vote for Bob Barr.McCain is so far ahead that some say he has the election in the bag!..

Really?...

I don't see McCain as the frontrunner here...

I AM surprised Obama doesn't have a double-digit lead though...

According to what we've had thrown at us by the media during the last presidency, the current president is the dumbest man on the planet, made everyone on earth (and possibly mars) hate us, the economy is 80 times worse than 1929, he's homosexually attacted to Big Oil executives, he's a big poopy-pants liar, everyone in his administration is a crook except for his dog (and those charges are pending), there are warrants for his arrest from San Francisco to Vermont if he steps foot there, he looks like a monkey, he can't even speak right, and he created all the terrorists in the world that want to kill us...

Why the Democrat isn't leading the Republican (who is being branded as exactly the same as Bush) by 30 points by now I have no idea...

Spencer Collins · #3 (**permalink**) 08-12-2008, 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by cnredd

Really?...

I don't see McCain as the frontrunner here...

I AM surprised Obama doesn't have a double-digit lead though...

According to what we've had thrown at us by the media during the last presidency, the current president is the dumbest man on the planet, made everyone on earth (and possibly mars) hate us, the economy is 80 times worse than 1929, he's homosexually attacted to Big Oil executives, he's a big poopy-pants liar, everyone in his administration is a crook except for his dog (and those charges are pending), there are warrants for his arrest from San Francisco to Vermont if he steps foot there, he looks like a monkey, he can't even speak right, and he created all the terrorists in the world that want to kill us...

Why the Democrat isn't leading the Republican (who is being branded as exactly the same as Bush) by 30 points by now I have no idea...

Hey...The Election Has Already Been Decided: McCain Wins!

http://www.politicalwrinkles.com/ele...html#post36327

These few turncoats and Barr supporters will have little impact as McCain is expected to win. I agree,I am also puzzled as to why the D's are not at least 30 points ahead.Some say that Obama is even ahead in the electoral collage but all that will change on election day. Congratulations to McCain are not at all premature..

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