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• 1. Mike Carroll  |  July 7th, 2008 at 7:45 am

  The article that you link lists 7 “prominent” Conservatives as declaring support for Obama one of whom, Armstrong Williams, has already admitted that he will vote for McCain and another as the grand daughter of Eisenhower can hardly be listed as a mover and shaker in the Conservative movement. That falls a bit short of a tidal wave.
  This holds about as much relevance as all of those Clinton backers who say they will vote for McCain.
  I had a visit from two confirmed Obamabots over the weekend, namely my daughter and son-in-law who both caucused
  for Obama in Iowa. When someone (OK, it was me) asked the inconvenient question-What has he actually done?-you could, as you say, cue the crickets.
  It is going to be an interesting 4 months.

• 2. LD  |  July 7th, 2008 at 7:55 am

  Apparently John McCain hates us all…

  “Now we’ve got the cables. We’ve got talk radio. We’ve got the bloggers. I hate the bloggers. We’ve got all kinds of sources of information.”

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wset9i4b0b4

• 3. Menlo Bob  |  July 7th, 2008 at 9:19 am

  Obama is the personification of ‘big tent’. When you have duel positions of every issue most people will find something to like–whether he’s principled is another topic.

• 4. Pat Cunningham  |  July 7th, 2008 at 9:35 am

  Bob: Keep telling yourself that Obama is a bigger flip-flopper than John McCain is. It’ll never be true, but keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better. Don’t ever let the facts get in the way of what you want to believe. Don’t be swayed, for example, by this list of 52 McCain flip-flops: http://www.therxforum.com/showthread.php?t=593495

• 5. Menlo Bob  |  July 7th, 2008 at 10:06 am

  Only a newspaperrman would believe content in the San Francisco Chronicle is a reliable gauge of anything. Count on them to round up any and all stories that make Obama look inevitable and ignore anything to the contrary. And now we’re expected to look at a handful of people, some of whom are certainly not conservatives, and see a conservative trend. can hardly be called a conservative, and neither is Susan Eisenhower. Hey Sauce, libertarians are not conservatives. Citing Reason magazine is the tip off that the author is clueless.

  If you’d believed what they told you for the last 8 years we’d be reading about President Gore, President Kerry and Governor Cruz Bustamante.

• 6. Pat Cunningham  |  July 7th, 2008 at 10:35 am

  Well then, Bob, you might want to consider this from the latest Times/Bloomberg poll: “McCain suffers from a pronounced ‘passion gap,’ especially among conservatives who usually give Republican candidates a reliable base of support. Among voters who described themselves as conservative, 58% said they would vote for McCain; 15% said they would vote for Obama, 14% said they would vote for someone else, and 13% said they were undecided. By contrast, 79% of voters who described themselves as liberal said they planned to vote for Obama.”

• 7. Menlo Bob  |  July 7th, 2008 at 10:47 am

  “Meanwhile, an analysis of campaign-finance records conducted for The Wall Street Journal by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics shows that in May, when Sen. Obama was widely believed to have clinched the Democratic nomination, only one Hillraiser had switched allegiance to the Obama campaign. And while 115 individuals who had donated at least $1,000 to Sen. Clinton made their first donations to Sen. Obama, another 115 former Clinton backers made their first big donations to Sen. McCain.”
  http://online.wsj.com/article_print/SB121539354782631403.html

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