Conservatives Abandoning GOP....Buckley Goes Obama

[James H. Bushart]

Read this!

[Randy D. Stufflebeem]

Originally Posted by jbushart

Read this!

He should have never looked into the eyes of Obama and drank the Jonestown kool-aid! Some republicans are stronger than that of others! By the way he will never compare to his dad and he just gave another reason to prove that!

[Joseph Burkeson, CMI]

"This campaign has changed John McCain," Buckley wrote. "It has made him inauthentic. A once-first class temperament has become irascible and snarly; his positions change, and lack coherence; he makes unrealistic promises, such as balancing the federal budget 'by the end of my first term.' Who, really, believes that? But... most of all the main reason I must vote against John McCain is that Sarah Palin (aka Bible Spice) will be just one heartbeat away from the Oval Office and that sobering fact has led me to this drastic conclusion.

[James H. Bushart]

Buckley, who praised McCain in a New York Times Op-Ed earlier this year and defended the Arizona senator's conservative credentials against wary talk-radio hosts, said McCain is no longer the “real” and “unconventional” man he once admired.


"This campaign has changed John McCain," Buckley wrote. "It has made him inauthentic. A once-first class temperament has become irascible and snarly; his positions change, and lack coherence; he makes unrealistic promises, such as balancing the federal budget 'by the end of my first term.' Who, really, believes that?


"Then there was the self-dramatizing and feckless suspension of his campaign over the financial crisis," Buckley added. "His ninth-inning attack ads are mean-spirited and pointless. And finally, not to belabor it, there was the Palin nomination. What on earth can he have been thinking?"

This is the beginning of the end....



What very little conservative support he had mustered is, at the most critical time possible, evaporating.

We are looking at an Obama landslide here, folks.

[Michael Larson]

Did anyone else find this telling?

“It’s a good thing my dear old mum and pup [sic] are no longer alive. They’d cut off my allowance," Buckley, a columnist for the conservative National Review, wrote on the Web site The Daily Beast Friday.

[Joseph Burkeson, CMI]

Originally Posted by mlarson

Did anyone else find this telling?

“It’s a good thing my dear old mum and pup [sic] are no longer alive. They’d cut off my allowance," Buckley, a columnist for the conservative National Review, wrote on the Web site The Daily Beast Friday.

Sounds pithy to me.

[Michael Larson]

Originally Posted by jburkeson1

Sounds pithy to me.

Glad you liked it.

[James H. Bushart]

Originally Posted by mlarson

Did anyone else find this telling?

“It’s a good thing my dear old mum and pup [sic] are no longer alive. They’d cut off my allowance," Buckley, a columnist for the conservative National Review, wrote on the Web site The Daily Beast Friday.

I feel your pain, Mike.

[James H. Bushart]

Looky, here. Another conservative joins the Obama campaign.

[Christopher Currins]

The Republican Party, McCain, and Palin Need a Timeout

October 10, 2008

I don't know why Republicans want, so desperately, to remain in power. If ever there was an institution that needed a breather, it's the Republican Party.
And when one considers the awful problems the next president will inherit from George W. Bush, is it so crazy to suggest that now is an opportune moment for the GOP to hand over the reins?

In the last eight years, the Republicans ignored clear warning signs and allowed al Qaeda to strike New York and Washington on Sept. 11, 2001.

They blundered into a costly war in Iraq, a mistake that squandered international goodwill, undermined apparent victory in Afghanistan, and benefited rivals like China, Russia, and Iran.

They let the institutions of government deteriorate, from FEMA to the SEC, paving the way for catastrophes like Hurricane Katrina and the current economic meltdown.
Paying only lip service to essential conservative principles, they championed pork barrel spending, engaged in corrupt practices, ran up the national debt, lied about the costs and cause of war, and presided over the continued coarsening of American culture.

And they have done it all with a conscious political strategy to escape responsibility by dividing Americans, region against region and family against family.
If the Republicans had any sense of decency at all they would turn to the refs and say, "Timeout. We need to regroup and rethink."
Really.

What philosophy does John McCain propose to govern by? What coherence will Sarah Palin bring to Washington? What vision or solutions or smart way out are Republican candidates offering this year?

[James H. Bushart]

And, yet...another....

[Joseph Burkeson, CMI]

Originally Posted by jbushart

Looky, here. Another conservative joins the Obama campaign.

Another great article...

Barack Obama is not my ideal candidate for president. (In fact, I made the maximum donation to John McCain during the primaries, when there was still hope he might come to his senses.) But I now see that Obama is almost the ideal candidate for this moment in American history. I disagree with him on many issues. But those don’t matter as much as what Obama offers, which is a deeply conservative view of the world. Nobody can read Obama’s books (which, it is worth noting, he wrote himself) or listen to him speak without realizing that this is a thoughtful, pragmatic, and prudent man. It gives me comfort just to think that after eight years of George W. Bush we will have a president who has actually read the Federalist Papers.

Most important, Obama will be a realist. I doubt he will taunt Russia, as McCain has, at the very moment when our national interest requires it as an ally. The crucial distinction in my mind is that, unlike John McCain, I am convinced he will not impulsively take us into another war unless American national interests are directly threatened.

“Every great cause,” Eric Hoffer wrote, “begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” As a cause, conservatism may be dead. But as a stance, as a way of making judgments in a complex and difficult world, I believe it is very much alive in the instincts and predispositions of a liberal named Barack Obama.

[James H. Bushart]

...and another...

[Joseph Burkeson, CMI]

The ultimate conservative flip-flop... McCain now supports Obama's Campaign!

[nwagner]

Then there was the self-dramatizing and feckless suspension of his campaign over the financial crisis. His ninth-inning attack ads are mean-spirited and pointless.

The last nails in the coffin for me. Touting the $700 billion bailout scam loaded with an additional $150 billion in pork coupled with his petty and relentless negative ad campaign has made it impossible for me to even consider this empty suit that has proven to be nothing more than a willing marrienette of the NeoConArtist machine.

It will be liberating to watch the NeoConArtist monster get slain at the polls this year. Shortly afterwards, I will have to grab some Pepto Bisimol and try to stomach the socialization of our once proud nation. Perhaps then the Repugnantcan Party will abandon chinnese communism in favor of US conservatism ...