God save me from Republicans for Obama

Posted by Deuce Geary on October 23rd, 2008

I took a look at the Republicans for Obama website this morning, and I now understand why these Republicans are for Obama: they are as hope-y change-y as the Democrats that are for Obama. On their “Why Obama?” page, they lay out nine issues, from the national debt to foreign policy, explaining the problems, but here is as far as they get at explaining why Obama is the better man to tackle them:

We need a leader who can lay the foundations of another American Century—someone who can get past our partisan and ideological divisions, as we strengthen our standing in the world and tackle the challenges we face at home. We need a leader who understands our differences, but who also knows the importance of finding common ground. While we continue to debate and address many issues on which we all have strong opinions—abortion, gay rights, the relationship between church and state, to name a few—we need a leader who can command the support needed to break our government’s paralysis and meet the growing challenges we face as a nation.

The bottom line is that Republicans support Obama because he has a broad swath of support. So, to Republicans for Obama, I say the following.

Folks, if your chief criterion for president is someone who can maintain enough popularity to win support of his proposals rather than what those proposals are, then you should never vote for another Republican again. Because every one of them, regardless of policy, is going to be relentlessly savaged by the media and thus — unless truly able to communicate with the people over the heads of the media and the politicians a la Ronald Reagan — is unlikely to command similar levels of support.

This desire to follow — no matter where one is led — is infantile. Before following, have you considered where Obama will take you?

I’d like to avoid gridlock, too, but movement for movement’s sake is an idiotic reason to support someone. I get frustrated in traffic, but I’m not about to drive down the opposite lane into a head-on collision with a firetruck just so I can move out of the gridlock of the bumper-to-bumper lanes.

And finally, please change your party registration now. As in yesterday.

UPDATE (10/25/08): Rush is dead-on about the high-profile guys who have endorsed Obama.

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