Another Republican Endorses Obama
After Scott McClellan joined Colin Powell in crossing party lines to support Barack Obama, we wondered who might be the next Republican to join the trend. Now we know the answer. It’s former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld.
“Senator Obama is a once-in-a-lifetime candidate who will transform our politics and restore America’s standing in the world,” Weld said in a statement. “We need a president who will lead based on our common values and Senator Obama demonstrates an ability to unite and inspire. Throughout this campaign I’ve watched his steady leadership through trying times and I’m confident he is the best candidate to move our country forward.”
Weld is no RINO; he supported Mitt Romney during the primaries. And he probably won’t be the last high-profile Republican to endorse the Democratic nominee. That isn’t sitting well with Republican loyalists. Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer says the “ship-jumpers” are “wet-fingered conservatives leaping to Barack Obama before they’re left out in the cold without a single state dinner for the next four years.”
At the rate that Republicans are jumping ship, it won’t be long until we find out who will be the next to leap.
Christopher Hitchens endorsed him too – its becoming an avalanche. Endorsement here:
http://www.slate.com/id/2202163/
October 24th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Chris Buckley, the son of William F. Buckley endorsed Barack Obama.
October 24th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
That’s picture of Obama looks like it’s from a movie filmed in the 30s.
October 24th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
*Gasp*
Obama is a vampire!
You heard that absurd claim here first.
October 24th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
So these republicans are coming out in support for obama.
No where near in numbers the pumas and hillary supporters are.
October 24th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
No where near in numbers the pumas and hillary supporters are.
Let’s see, high-profile Clinton supporters who have publicly endorsed McCain. Well, you have Lynn Forester de Rothschild, and, um, hmm. I can’t think of any others.
October 24th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
A vampire?
No. Colmes picked a photo to make Obama look like Louis Farrakhan.
Well, Colmes is a FOX man. FOX: no stranger to the magic of Photoshop. At least you didn’t add horns or stretch his ears.
October 24th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Actually, I think Obama looks like Humphrey Bogart.
October 24th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Farrakhan’s name and image didn’t come up once in my mind, and I doubt that was Alan’s intent. You might need counseling, Anonymouse. No offense.
October 24th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
I think the picture’s classy.
October 24th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Alan didn’t pick the picture. I did. And I picked it because, like WFG, I thought it was a classy photo.
October 24th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
“Obama is a vampire!”
So he’s not only got a brain, he’s cooool.
October 24th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Indeed. That picture was taken in 1932; the spirits told me. And now, I must report to the stake for my burning. I might get a hanging if I plead out right.
October 24th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
“You might need counseling, Anonymouse. No offense.”
No, I only need sleep. Someone stole my Obama yard sign. They stole several from the neighbors, too and bashed all of our mailboxes. I replaced the missing sign with three more and I’m now staying up to wait on my “friends” to return at their usual time between 12M and 3am.
Such is life in a red state.
Sorry, but I still don’t think the photo is exactly flattering.
October 24th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
I would be interested in finding out if anyone is actually influenced by an endorsement?
I doubt it.
October 24th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
It is a classy photo, Joel. It does kind of look like a promotional photo from an old movie. Probably because it’s black and white.
October 24th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
I endorse B.O. too! Now stop talking about the election and send me some fighter jets! And some tanks! And towels! ahhhhhh.. glug, glug, glug.
October 24th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
wow..the socialist has everyone fooled but the american people….big surprise in nov. when he loses to mccain. going to be fun watching msnbc then..
October 24th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Okay, the photo of Obama is fine. Please accept my apologies.
Weld, in his photo, looks like he’s about to fall asleep though.
October 24th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
Mr Weld should just stay in the Democrat party. The Republican party would be better off without these liberals.
October 24th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Weld is a doofus that sought to succeed Pataki as governor of NYS on the grounds that he grew up on Long Island. Yeah, he’s qualfied! Another blueblood!
After the carpetbaggers of RFK, Hillary, and now him? And what happened in Mass?
Uhh, thanks. Really, but no thanks.
VOTE RUDY FOR NYS GOVERNOR IN 2009!
October 24th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
I forgot! He even bought a huge parcel in Delaware County (Catskills) to obtain residency! He is a class A WACKO! How’d he get his money, again?
Delaware County (county seat, Delhi) is a mountainous wasteland. This county is larger than Rhode Island! The Upstate NY economy is a wasteland. Heaven help us!
October 24th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
U.S. Catholic Bishop Rene H. Gracida Releases Radio Ad Stating no Catholic can Vote for Barack Obama in Good Conscience
Contact: Randall Terry, 904-687-9804
MEDIA ADVISORY, October 24 /Christian Newswire/ — Today – perhaps in an eleventh hour answer to prayer for the unborn – Bishop Rene H. Gracida has released a stunning radio ad concerning Catholics voting for Barack Obama. His ad is recorded in English and Spanish.
Bishop Gracida boldly states:
“This is Bishop Rene H. Gracida, reminding all Catholics that they must vote in this election with an informed conscience. A Catholic cannot be said to have voted in this election with a good conscience if they have voted for a pro-abortion candidate. Barack Hussein Obama is a pro-abortion candidate.”
The commercial can be heard in English and Spanish at http://www.randallterry.com.
Bishop Gracida has offered this radio spot without charge for all who want to use it. All faithful Catholics are invited to download the mp3 file, and place this ad on their local radio station(s).
They must simply contact their local radio station(s), and pay for the ad as an “independent expenditure.” The station can download the audio file to play on the radio. The mp3 file is also available at http://www.randallterry.com.
Moreover, permission is granted for the ad to be downloaded, sent as a file, or posted on any web site in America.
If this ad receives the airplay it deserves, it could sink Obama’s campaign by jolting Catholic voters back to their senses and moorings. Over 50% of Catholic voters have been seduced into ethical quicksand by errant Catholics who are partisan supporters of Obama and have betrayed the lives of innocent unborn children.
October 24th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
No problem, Anonymouse.
October 25th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
There is a glow over the city. Ask anyone of the people in the large crowd below the grandstand and they will tell you it is a special glow, having to do more than just with it being a sunny January day. The man standing in the grandstand’s center is respendid in his white flowing robe. The man standing across from him is in a plain black robe and recites a sentence to which the white robed man repeats back to him. This verbal dance is repeated over and over for upwards of ten times. Once it is done the tall lean man in the white robe smiles. The black robed man shakes his hand. All the people on the grandstand smile and applaud enthusiatically, as does the throngs of the enthralled people on the ground below.
At last the change we need is here, is what they are all thinking. After several minutes of this display of rabid affection, an anticipatory hush sweeps over the crowd. The beautiful man in the flowing white robe, is about to speak! But first things first. time for an ode to him from those singing children.
Oh, the glory! “The one” is here. This day is for celebration. Tomorrow morning his disciples can start fixing those misinformed and less kind observers out there who do not sense the specialness of this day. But today is for basking in the glory of the one. Tomorrow is predicted to be another sunshine filled day. (There may never be a cloud over this city again!) And it is tomorrow morning the task of enlightening those not seeing the light will begin. And it will be in the name of fainess, and for the glory of the one, so there is no way they can not achieve their goal.
If there are any melancholy thoughts on the on the grandstand it is watching the children sing the glory of the one and realizing there are still some children out there across the land who do not sing this song. Surely they are children of mothers and fathers who do not realize greatness of the one. How sad it is that it may be past the point when anything can be done to save these parents. But at least for their children it is not too late.
The great moment of history is here now and the books in all the schools shall have to be re-written, And children from every village across the land will absorb these new books and be enlightened. And then they will too sing of the greatness and the glory of the one.
The members of the circle don’t need to make any great prouncements, for the truth they bestow on behalf of the one is clearly known. So continue to carry forth the word of the one, teachers and scribes, just like you have faithfully done leading up to this great day! Express the glory, artists and poets, he has finally arrived! Simple farmer and worker, do not fear the change that you see. Vanquishing your own ignorance is the path to the one.
Let the observers who so not see the light of the one say their words but crush the means by which others may hear them. And go forth to teach the children, in every school of every village of this land, of the greatness of “the one”.
- January 20, 2009
October 25th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
[...] A steady stream of current and mostly former Republican leaders have publicly declared their support for Democratic Presidential Candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill). Here is one that I didn’t see coming this week, former Massachusetts Governor and one time Mitt Romney backer Governor William F Weld (R-MA). (H/T: Alan Colmes) [...]
October 25th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
So….what’s with the Hannity Hit Piece on Obama being shown on FOX News right now? Is that FAIR AND BALANCED? Where is the equal time for PRO Obama supporters.Alan or Kirsten should get an hour to answer this Hannity Bullcrap.I don’t want to live in hannity’s America. No wonder Obama hates FIX news……
October 25th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
A federal judge in Philadelphia last night threw out a complaint by a Montgomery County lawyer who claimed that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was not qualified to be president and that his name should be removed from the Nov. 4 ballot.
Philip J. Berg alleged in a complaint filed in federal district court on Aug. 21 against Obama, the Democratic National Committee and the Federal Election Commission, that Obama was born in Mombasa, Kenya.
Berg claimed that the Democratic presidential standardbearer is not even an American citizen but a citizen of Indonesia and therefore ineligible to be president.
He alleged that if Obama was permitted to run for president and subsequently found to be ineligible, he and other voters would be disenfranchised.
U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick had denied Berg’s request for a temporary restraining order on Aug. 22 but had not ruled on the merits of the suit until yesterday.
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In a 34-page memorandum and opinion, the judge said Berg’s allegations of harm were “too vague and too attenuated” to confer standing on him or any other voters.
Surrick ruled that Berg’s attempts to use certain laws to gain standing to pursue his claim that Obama was not a natural-born citizen were “frivolous and not worthy of discussion.”
The judge also said the harm Berg alleged did “not constitute an injury in fact” and Berg’s arguments to the contrary “ventured into the unreasonable.”
October 25th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Alan: “At the rate that Republicans are jumping ship, it won’t be long until we find out who will be the next to leap.”
The kooks to which William F. Buckley alluded have taken over the party.
Let’s hope the jumped-ship Republicans can invoke an intervention for the rest of the party.
America needs all the credibility it can get, and both parties are vital to the nation’s strength and viability.
October 26th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
At this point if McCain wins or any Republican wins the Presidency in the future I can bet that the election will be stolen. (cough 2000…2004) The Republicans that are jumping ship are those that don’t want to be considered cheaters or dishonest to there own people in there own backyard. It’s a shame that we still act like it’s the 1950’s and 60’s.
October 31st, 2008 at 1:54 am