In Philly, Conservative Talk Radio Host Backs Obama

SOME PEOPLE WILL DO ANYTHING FOR ATTENTION

What a hippocrit

Smerconish is an anomaly. He is a one issue talk show host. The only thing that matters to him is how an issue advances his career. Each position is calculated in this regard. I call this condition “Little Radio Host” syndrome. If you happen to listen to him for a week or so, Michael's agenda begins with "How can I benefit in my talk show career form this headline?" His endorsement means very little. The only reason it is a blurb on the news at all is that he happens to refer to himself as a conservative talk show host.

Smerconish is correct on his assessment of the Iraq War and Afghanistan. The Joint Chiefs of Staff held Obama's view when the advised Bush that invading Iraq was a bad idea - at the time there was no Obama and no view - he was not on the scene. All of this common sense.

My decision on the President rests primarily on the candidate's ability to ppick outstanding Department Heads and White House Staff - like Reagan did and Bush did not. Obama's economic policy aadvisors are head and shoulders above McCains. THen you have the whimsical selection of Sarah - she has really been put in a bad position. Finally - the Powell endorsement.

Michael feels catching Osama Bin Ladin is the end all for a Presidential candidate. The candidate he chose was Obama who said he would go into Pakistan if necessary to get him. I’m not sure attacking a weak and fragile government that’s working with us to a point; with a Muslim extremist population harboring terrorists; with a pretty good military which allies with Muslim extremists and has access to nuclear weapons is really a good idea.

I guess this is what Joe Biden said the other day when he said Obama will be tested in his first six months in office. Invading a third Muslim extremist country that harbors terrorists and has nuclear weapons would bring a big test to the Obama Presidency. We would be in conflict with a next door neighbor to China and I’m sure you all remember what China’s response to us was when we advanced to far North into Korea.

The war in Iraq and the war in Afghanistan are two separate issues, but yet are accomplishing the same results, no attacks on US soil. Eight years later the 3,000 deaths in the US from terrorism remains the same and the man responsible for those deaths is hiding in the mountains of Pakistan. Over 90% of Al Qaeda’s leadership in 2001 and their replacements have been killed or captured. The British spent decades in Afghanistan in the 19th century and suffered heavy casualties before leaving. The Russians spent a decade in the 1980’s and got there butt kicked before retreating out. I’m in no rush to get Osama especially when he is hiding in very dangerous mountainous terrain and I’m okay with outsourcing the hunt to the Pakistani’s even though I don’t trust them.

All of Michael’s points were very weak to make a decision for President, which makes me believe he has to be pandering to his multiple liberal friends and jobs on MSNBC and CNN. To make your decision on the VP choices of the candidates is pretty ridiculous unless one they picked Michael Moore or Sean Penn. The person Michael wanted was Tom Ridge and he is out campaigning for McCain.

What’s most ironic is he believes Obama will be okay as President with no experience and questionable associations over the years. His belief that Joe Biden is better pick for VP than Sarah Palin is even more ridiculous. If Sarah did become president, she would have a McCain cabinet already in place along with political advisors that would assist her in the transition (Obama with far less experience will not have that luxury). With her executive experience as mayor and governor (far exceeding John’s, Joe’s and Obama’s), she would make a better President than all of them.

I started listening to Smerconish in '98 and stopped listening to him in 2000. As his topics became more and more boring I started finding myself disagreeing with his views more and more and not just on a political level. The fact that he backs Obama shows that he is completely ill-informed and has possibly been payed off by the democrate-propaganda machine. Any sane person will vote for McCain. You don't gamble with America and put everything good it stands for on this one bet!! 'That one' (Obama has serious character flaws! Look at the people he has befriended. Can you imagine what his cabinet is going to look like??? Farakhan will be visiting the White House regularly. If Smerconish is looking forward to an Obama-Pelosi-Reid Administration, then he is more mentally ill than I realized!! I won't be there to hear him cry on the radio when Obama's socialist wrecking ball is hitting the country hard, because I'll be listening to people with a real brain like Rush and Hannity. Smerconish has been fooled by people like Michael Moore!!!

Real intellectual thinking conservatives know Bush is not conservative by any stretch of the imagination.

glad to see some honest paleo conservatives in here standing up for what the republican party really is all about.

its the fake neoconservatives who are basically just totally brainwashed by the PNAC crew and will support bush and the official republican party no matter how dishonest and hypocritical they become.

thank god not all conservatives get sucked into the neocon stupid machine.

people still have minds of their own, and for that i am a happy man.

Mike I want to Thank you for speaking out and voting for a candidate that I have felt strongly about over the past three months. I have been a Republican for over 16 years and chnged my decision to vote for Obama and quite a few of my Republican friends made the same choice. Thanks again Mike! You are my H.E.R.O!

Michael Smirconish is a phony conservative. When he first came on the air in Phila., he claimed to be to the right.....Bush 41 speech writer, etc.... After awhile, callers noticed his left-wise leanings, called in, and confronted him on it. He denied it, and after awhile, cut off callers who said the same about him. He has been heading left ever since, as his appearance on Clinton News Network and PMSNBC. He also appeared on Glenn Beck, and I hope that someone has set Glenn straight about him. No big loss for Mc Cain.

The leftist political advocacy group ABC asserts: "Conservative Talk Radio Host Backs Obama". "Conservative"? "Michael Smerconish"? ROTFLMAO!!! Smerconish is a "conservative", and I'm an ivory-billed woodpecker. Smerconish is as "conservative" as other non-conservative, non-Republicans media darlings David Gergen, Andrew Sullivan, David "Gergen" Brooks and Kevin Phillips. Like the above mentioned non-Republicans/non-conservatives, Smerconish is always alleged to be a "conservative" by the useful idiots of the Washigton press corps in their lame attempts to pretend to have some balance, while at the same time every thing he says is identical to any run-of-the-mill boilerplate leftist. On top of that, the poor fool is an utterly insignificant irrelevancy.

I often find Republican rhetoric projective in its attacks. Accusing or classifying the Democrats as this or that, when in reality it they themselves that are guilty of it. Saying that Republicans are "Thinkers" and that Democrats are "Feelers" is a new one to me. If that's true, then why are the Republicans so ANGRY?

Agree with most of you, particularly jerzy in the comments "Only the dumbest doornails in the building (i.e., the GlenBeck-RushLimbauh-SeanHannity listeners) will claim that Smerconish has ulterior motives. I listen to all four (Smerconish, Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity), and Smerconish is the only who has a rational, clear-thinking, civil approach to his callers".
And yes Smerconish, like many other GOP including the High profile ones who endorse Obama, did so after in-depth and intelligence analysis. They were informed following up Obama. The "dumbest" ones were blinded by their racism and ignorance. By the way racism=ignorance. So I will just say the dumbest and ignorant couldn't help much. It's Sooooooooooo sad in 21st century and in this great nation. We deserve better than that. Thanks God this is only applicable to few!!!

Re: Paul C. The point of multi-party democracy is that the politics of the country ebb and flow. Different ideas come to the fore, and others fall to the wayside. Blind devotion to party instead of country seems more rabid with the 'Right' than with the Liberals on this board. At least the pragmatist Republicans like Powell and Smerconish understand that sometimes a party has better ideas than the other. They certainly aren't saying 'all Democrats all the time,' and they also aren't saying 'all Republicans all the time.' Sounds like tolerance to me, and I'm glad people like you gave some years of service for that kind of balance.

This reminds me of the final weeks of the democratic primary. Once the the writing was seen on the wall the flood gate broke. I am a Obama supporter who makes contact with potential voters and like many people are realizing, in Florida, The writing is on the wall!

The traitors and turncoat so called Republcians like Smerconish and Powell who will vote for Obama were never really R's. Remember that cons & R's think while libs and D's feel. Their arguments and points for Obama are specious and hold no substance or water. They are rather laughable based on truth and the facts. What about those who left the Democrats because it's gone so far left and have politicized national security as they've done these past 7 years ? I did not give 4 years of my life for this country so that it can be led down the wrong path by a socialist left wing neophyte politician who's best attribute is to be a smooth talker. May God help this nation and the stupid suckers who buy into his B.S. if Obama is elected. Also look out for Gov. Palin and LA Gov. Bobby Lindal in 2012 and beyond. Reading these comments, the left and liberals are so tolerant...NOT!!! America will always be Right!

Another one comes over to the good side.

Way to go Mike...I'm with you all the way, the party has lost me this go round. I'm also voting for a Democrat for president. First time in 25 years.

Only the dumbest doornails in the building (i.e., the GlenBeck-RushLimbauh-SeanHannity listeners) will claim that Smerconish has ulterior motives. I listen to all four (Smerconish, Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity), and Smerconish is the only who has a rational, clear-thinking, civil approach to his callers. He actually LISTENS to all points of views and succeeds in fleshing out progress among conflicting thoughts and controversies. He doesn't hang up or talk over people (ahem, Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity). Put BLH together, and all 3 of them couldn't hold a candle up to Smerconish's clear-thinking, reasonable views or democratic debate.