A Barack Obama doesn't just happen. It takes a lot of useful idiots, and there was an auditorium full at Notre Dame last week.
To clarify, I do not put liberals in the useful idiot category, not even that woman waiting for Barack to pay her light bill. Liberals voting for a fellow traveler makes complete sense. It is logical for those who pay no taxes to vote themselves more freebees from the government. Just as rednecks and cowboys like me had a natural affinity with W, I can see how highly-educated, latte-sipping metrosexuals feel as one with the professorial Obama. No, the useful idiots are those self-identified anti-abortion Christians, Catholics in particular, who either ignored their faith or performed ridiculous doctrinal gymnastics to justify voting for the most pro-abortion president in history.
The useful idiot cohort is also full of otherwise-responsible middle and upper class Americans who fall for what the president says ("we're spending too much money") instead of watching what he does (spending trillions and doubling the national debt).Add to this a press that went from attack dog to lap dog in 100 days, and self-censoring comedians who suddenly find presidential humor off limits, and you have the perfect Obamessiah storm.
Hope you got some hip waders...Robert George - Obama's Pro-Life Apologists
I saw a Republicans for Obama bumper sticker the other day and couldn't help laughing out loud. Republicans for Obama is an oxymoron. Oil and water, fire and ice. Impossible.
Then I stumbled across a news article about this craze that featured two "Republicans" who are supporting the O Man. Former GOP Senator Lincoln Chaffee, who put down the bong long enough to vote for John Kerry in 2004, and Jim Leach, former Iowa Congressman who always looks concerned, have jumped on the Obama bandwagon. Neither man is a conservative, and both were voted out of office, so this isn't a big, bold move ala Alabama Senator Richard Shelby becoming a Republican back in the 90's.
Chris Matthews may get a tingle up his leg and the caterpillars on Keith Olbermann's forehead may dance with delight, but according to Pew Research, the GOP base is getting behind McCain. If this is the best the "Republicans for Obama" movement has to offer, Mac doesn't have much to worry about.
I chuckle at the Obama supporters who also claim to be Republicans. I can don a cape and call myself Batman, but that don't make it so. This is like Baptist preachers for prostitution, Firemen supporting house fires, A Mormon booze and cigarette aficionado club, lambs voting to put the wolf in charge...
The GOP stands for conservatism over liberalism, strict interpretation of the constitution, lower taxes, anti-abortion, strong military posture, unabashed displays of patriotism, private sector solutions instead of big government ones, tort reform, and the welfare of students over that of teachers unions. Senator Obama stands for none of these things.
I don't doubt the sincerity of "Republicans for Obama." I just doubt their ability to label themselves properly. If you used to refrain from eating meat, but you now snarf steaks and pork chops, you can no longer call yourself a vegetarian. Anyone who votes for someone so opposed to the basic conservative tenets of the GOP can no longer honestly call themselves a Republican.
This is media created hype. If it walks like a Democrat and quacks like a Democrat... It's probably a Democrat trying to duck the truth.
A Barack Obama doesn't just happen. It takes a lot of useful idiots, and there was an auditorium full at Notre Dame last week.
