Comments | wwolfe: You heard it here first: "Obama Republicans."

wwolfe

You heard it here first: "Obama Republicans."

Nov 06, 2008 10:13

Actually, you would have heard it first at around 10:15 p.m. Pacific Time, Tuesday night, as I was talking with my sister on the phone ( Read more... )

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Hear, hear! thespice November 6 2008, 22:51:16 UTC

And, howdy!

Re: Hear, hear! wwolfe November 6 2008, 23:54:37 UTC

Hello, yourself!

I can't remember the last time I felt so euphoric. It feels like my entire body is unclenching.

kuzibah November 6 2008, 23:10:11 UTC

In a lot of cases, I think it's not so much that Reps left the GOP as the GOP left them. For the past eight years, the GOP has been closing ranks, in that you either swear blind allegiance to GWB, or you're a traitor to the cause. In the waning days of the campaign, they were actively kicking all the reasonable conservative voices out of the party. And frankly if (IMO) great conservative thinkers and writers (and leaders) like George Will, Christopher Buckley, and Colin Powell are forced out of the tent in favor of brutes like Matt Drudge, I'm leaving, too.

I often wonder how my dad would have reacted to the current GOP. wwolfe November 7 2008, 00:00:03 UTC

He was a Republican of the old school: balanced budgets, strong defense combined with an avoidance of foreign entanglements when possible, and the least necessary intrusion of government into individual's life combined with a support for a healthy investment in public works for the common good. I can't know, but I suspect that he, too, would have concluded that he didn't leave the GOP, the GOP left him. I bet he would have decided that Obama is the more truly conservative of the two candidates - if, for nothing else, his belief in and respect for the Constitution. Also, given my dad's profound interest in the Civil War and its meaning in American history, I have no doubt he would have been astonished and grateful about what Obama's candidacy means to all of us.