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If you live in Minnesota, you know that there is nobody in the state who gets more media attention than the thin film of Republicans who pine for the “good old days”, when Republicans and Democrats “worked together” (by acting like Democrats).
But the rest of the nation might be a little newer to the phenomenon. Oh, we’ve seen bits and pieces; the odd article about fundamentalist liberals (notwithstanding that Evangelicals vote 3-1 Republican)), or the occasional liberal in the active-duty military (4-1 GOP in 2004).
But soon, the flotsam and jetsam of “Republicans for Taxes, Abortion, Gun Control and Dishonorable Peace” will soon start getting the same treatment that Minnesota’s remaining Carlson Republicans get from Lori Sturdevant; bemused fawning.
Example: This piece in the LATimes, by Mark Barabak, entitled “They’re Republican Red, and True Blue to Obama“, which (it should surprise nobody) reads like an Obama puff piece.
GOP renegades seeking a candidate capable of ending the Washington
partisanship are surfacing in the senator’s campaign in surprising numbers.
“Obamicans,” he calls them.
“Unicorns”, I calls them.
Delaware, Ohio – Chatter bounces off the bare walls and checkered
linoleum floor as Josh Pedaline and other Barack Obama supporters burn
through their call sheets.A map of Delaware County splays across a tabletop. Another table is
laden with cookies, pretzels and other snacks. Volunteers sit elbow to
elbow, pecking at cellphones and pitching the Illinois Democrat in
advance of Ohio’s March 4 primary. The scene is a typical campaign boiler
room.Except that four of the 13 dialing away are lifelong Republicans,
including Pedaline, 28, who reveres Ronald Reagan and twice voted for
President Bush.
And on, and on, and on, bla bla di bla.
Expect all fifty of the “Obama Republicans” to have their own programs on CNN by September.
UPDATE: Whenever I read stories about “Republicans for Taxes, Abortion, Gun Control and Dishonorable Peace”, my first reflex is to Google the names. Life got in the way yesterday, unfortunately – I didn’t get to do a complete search…
…but one of my commenters notes that Josh Pedaline, “lifelong Republican” at age 28, has at least one hit on the BS Search:
This Pedaline guy is a lifelong republican at age 28? Wiat, here’s his Obamasturbation page. He wrote the page two years ago & at that time he was calling bush ‘evil’. He considers himself a centrist and a moderate.
First rule of thumb; whenever the media points you to either a “Republican that’s turned Democrat”? Distrust, and verify.
This Pedaline guy is a lifelong republican at age 28?
Wiat, here’s his Obamasturbation page:http://my.barackobama.com/page/dashboard/public/Ccdg
He wrote the page two years ago & at that time he was calling bush ‘evil’. He considers himself a centrist and a moderate.
Who does that remind me of?
Leanedfoot of Kool_Aid (I know you’re here) is great at exposing fake Democrats.
I always like the ones who write letters to the editors…”I’m a lifelong Republican, but cannot vote for (Insert Republican candidiate)”.
Thanks for the shizzouts Chuck! I did do a newsmeat search on the guy and it came up empty. I like to look at political donations as they are the most objective indications of what one’s beliefs really are.
“I like to look at political donations as they are the most objective indications of what one’s beliefs really are.”
Are you saying that all those Republicans that give to Nader’s campaign are really closet Greens *laughing*
Are you saying that all those Republicans that give to Nader’s campaign are really closet Greens *laughing*
They are as representative of Republicans as Lieberman is representative of the Democrats.
A bit off topic, but does anybody know where the DFL’s claim of 33,000 new jobs per year came from?
I’m writing a little something, and I’m finding a real mixed bag of claims
1. as many as 33,000 new jobs
2. 33,000 new jobs
3. 33,000 new jobs per year for five years
4. 33,000 new jobs per year for ten years
A bit off topic, but does anybody know where the DFL’s claim of 33,000 new jobs per year came from?
In a press release, Murphy said “The bill will provide an $8.4 billion investment in the safety and efficiency of Minnesota’s transportation system over the next ten years. According to a Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) study on transportation investments, a bill of this size would create an average of 33,000 jobs a year for the next 5 years .”
So this was taking the $8.4 billion and applying some FHWA formula?
An interesting take on the FHWA formula
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/bg1747.cfm
The money quote
In the real world, the additional federal borrowing or taxing needed to provide this additional billion dollars means that a billion dollars less is spent or invested elsewhere and that the jobs and products previously employed by that billion dollars thus disappear. Regardless of how the federal government raised the additional billion dollars, it represents a shift of resources from one part of the economy to another, in this case to road building.
Great link, MoN. It’s enough to make ya want to jump off the new 35W bridge when they get it done, ain’t it.
why wait till its done?
Until they show us a Republican who’s sticking with President Bush while crossing over to vote for Hussein Obama, I won’t believe a word of the Mainstream Media Mythology.
Show us a guy who respects what President Bush has done with Al Qaeda and the economy who buys that change stuff Hussein Obama is selling and then we’ll talk.
What do Real Republicans and Bill Clinton have in common?
They love Bush.
/jc
Slash,
Steven Colbert called. He’d like you to stop digging through his dumpster.
“Respects what President Bush has done with Al Qaeda and the economy”
You mean he finally captured BinLaden and we aren’t in his 2nd Recession of his term. WaHooooo I want to live in your world!!
Flash
Stand by for labored re-definitions of the words “recession” and “captured.”
Hey, there’s a name for Republicans who disapprove of the way President Bush has handled the job, the war, and the economy . . . “Democrats.” Of course, *they’re* voting for Obama.
Real Republicans love what Bush has done and want four more years of the same. Real Republicans will be voting for McCain to get exactly that.
That’s why the MSM can’t show you a Real Republican voting for Obama.
It’d be crazy.
/jc
FWIW:
The most recent national poll says Obama gets 12% of self-IDed Republicans (comapred with 9% for Clinton). He gets 21% of self-IDed Conservatives (compared with 20%) for Clinton.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/RCP_PDF/feb%2021-25%20bloomberg%20la%20times%20poll.pdf
Obama gets 12% of self-IDed Republicans [and] 21% of self-IDed Conservatives
In related news, he also snags 85% of self-IDed “Jews for Hitler”
RickDFL: King of meaningless numbers.
Slash said:
‘Hey, there’s a name for Republicans who disapprove of the way President Bush has handled the job, the war, and the economy . . . “Democrats.” ‘
I think it is really the blanket partisan disapproval of President Bush and everything he does that make it easy to discount the opinions of these “Democrats”. Not all Democrats do it (and certainly Republicans are not immune), but it is surprising how many otherwise intelligent folks make it quite plain that they have passed judgment before considering the evidence.
I disapprove of Bush’s handling of the war and the economy. But you’d never find me voting for either Hillary or Obama. Not in 1e12 years.