Big Blow to McCain and the GOP

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The Obamacons Who Worry McCain
By Robert D. Novak
Thursday, June 26, 2008; Page A19

quote:What is an "Obamacon?" The phrase surfaced in January to describe British conservatives entranced by Barack Obama. On March 13 the American Spectator broadened the term to cover all "conservative supporters" of the Democratic presidential candidate. Their ranks, though growing, feature few famous people. But looming on the horizon are two big potential Obamacons: Colin Powell and Chuck Hagel.

quote: Powell probably will enter Obama's camp at a time of his own choosing.

quote: Powell, Hagel and lesser-known Obamacons harbor no animosity toward McCain. Nor do they show much affection for the rigidly liberal Obama. The Obamacon syndrome is based on hostility to Bush and his administration and on revulsion over today's Republican Party.

quote:When it became known recently that [Larry] Hunter supports Obama, fellow conservatives were stunned. Hunter was fired as U.S. Chamber of Commerce chief economist in 1993 when he would not swallow Clinton administration policy, and he later joined Jack Kemp at Empower America (ghostwriting Kemp's column). Explaining his support for the uncompromisingly liberal Obama, Hunter blogged on June 6: "The Republican Party is a dead rotting carcass with a few decrepit old leaders stumbling around like zombies in a horror version of 'Weekend With Bernie,' handcuffed to a corpse."

While he never would use such language, Colin Powell is said by friends to share Hunter's analysis of the GOP. His tenuous 13-year relationship with the Republican Party, following his retirement from the Army, has ended.

quote: Obamacons -- little and big -- are reason for concern by McCain. They also should cause soul-searching at the Bush White House about who made the Republican Party so difficult a place for Republicans to stay.

The true legacy of Bush will be the elimination of the GOP as a viable party until such time that the conservatives can eliminate the neocons from their ranks. The politics of hate and confrontation expressed since the advent of Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh will have to be expunged. The average American does not hate his fellow American, and the hate mongers are going to have to go............otherwise the GOP is going to be lost for a long long time.

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Landslide coming.....

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