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Weld for Obama, Krauthammer Assails GOPers Backing Liberal Dem

October 24, 2008 9:44 AM

Another liberal-to-moderate former GOP official -- former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld -- endorses Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., today.

"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 released Friday. "We need a president who will lead based on our common values, and Senator Obama demonstrates an ability to unite and inspire."

Weld will make his announcement later this morning in New Hampshire. He backed Mitt Romney during the primaries.

Meanwhile, conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer is having none of it.

"Contrarian that I am, I'm voting for John McCain," he writes. "I'm not talking about bucking the polls or the media consensus that it's over before it's over. I'm talking about bucking the rush of 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.

"I stand athwart the rush of conservative ship-jumpers of every stripe -- neo (Ken Adelman), moderate (Colin Powell), genetic/ironic (Christopher Buckley) and socialist/atheist (Christopher Hitchens) -- yelling 'Stop!' I shall have no part of this motley crew. I will go down with the McCain ship. I'd rather lose an election than lose my bearings."

He writes: "I'll have no truck with the phony case ginned up to rationalize voting for the most liberal and inexperienced presidential nominee in living memory."

- jpt

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Has anyone considered something other than the Bradley effect. It would be called the "Why Should We Think People We Have Always Thought Were Wrong Are Suddenly Right Now" effect. These people would include Rush's so-called Drive By Media, Conservatives Who Are Finding It Hip To Desert Their Party, Former Secretary of State's Still Carrying A Grudge, Former Press Secretary's Still Tryiing To Peddle Their Book and on and on and on and on......Remember that at the end of the day the American people are still eternal optimists and so they just might wake up on November 4 and think to themselves that there is no way that Obama could be this perfect and that McCain could be as bad as all these knuckleheads say he is.....

Posted by: funnypaysoff | Oct 26, 2008 12:29:31 AM

Wrong, Krauthammer! Judge Alton B. Parker (D-1904) was the least qualified nominee in American history! Obama isn't even that high up on the list.

Posted by: Jesse | Oct 25, 2008 8:36:34 AM

What a surprise! Charles Krauthammer, he who makes Genghis Khan look like a Libertarian, voices his support for John McCain? I hear tomorrow's headlines will read "Sun Comes Up Today."

Posted by: chuck | Oct 24, 2008 10:21:44 PM

Jake - that was a hack job on Krauthammer's column. You completely left off EVERY reason he was voting for Mcain and not Obama - and just made it catty. It was actually an interesting column. You can be pro-Obama and still appreciate an opposing point of view. Really, honest and truly.

Come on - this is tiresome!
People can vote Obama, they can vote McCain - but darn I am REALLY tired of journlalists telling me what to do, think, say, vote . . . .

You chopping Krauthammer's column; NBC "Meet the Press" giving Powell a 17 minute soliloquoy on the pros of Obama . . .

ICK! MSM WHERE ARE YOU???? Are you still investigating Joe the plumber????

Posted by: ECHO21 | Oct 24, 2008 9:34:03 PM

Gee, how slanted of the liberal media! 7 to 1 negative articles against McCain compared to Obama! when we all kow it is IMPOSSIBLE to have such a looser in the Republican ticket! Well informed patriots like us are well aware that if there are so many negative articles against McCain, they must be authored by communists and bolshevicks, p[eople who do not understand patriotism and stupidity!

Posted by: Vladimir | Oct 24, 2008 8:39:59 PM


mcpainin ah negative

Posted by: media | Oct 24, 2008 7:21:27 PM

I can only report what i see

and i see negative all over mccain and palin' campaign.

when mccain starts campaigning 7-1 in the positive
i will report it

Posted by: media | Oct 24, 2008 7:20:53 PM

It is amazingly true that he who controls the message, controls the masses.

7 - 1 articles negative to McCain/Palin

60% positive, glowing, gushing reporting of OBAMA. Only really scratching the surface of his past. The MSM lack of intellectual curiosity into his experiences in Occidental and Columbia where Obama was molded.

We know he is a DEVOTED socialist and will move this country into a direction that will cause the collapse in confidence our the free market and thus the entire global market will collapse.

These are no small words. If the most coveted economy can collapse in the span of a couple of weeks, then how could any small country ever make it.

With Obama as President, economy at a stand still, our charitable working class tapped out and Venezuela and Saudi Arabia not being able to GIVE AWAY their oil, we DIVE into a depression that will claim the lives of MILLIONS across the world.... there will not be enough Obama posters and CHe t-shirts to hold the economy up.

The globe from space will begin to look more and more like that of N. Korea....but hey, at least gas will be cheap and we will have stopped GLOBAL WARMING.


Apocalyptic?

More like Obamalyptic.

Posted by: Texas Tea Party | Oct 24, 2008 5:16:29 PM

who care about what old Charles "the stiff neck" kraut thinks,
so what if he will be a pass. on the John mccain SST (STRAIGHT TALK TITANIC)
with charles, and all of the rest of mccain followers with them all yelling
birth certificate!,bill ayers!,socialist! and all of the other loser mantra mccain has decided to steer his followers in.
It is sad, he has sunk his campaign and his followers by swiftboating his own people with fear.

Posted by: cheer up,smile,nertz! | Oct 24, 2008 5:06:44 PM

Augusto Pinochet, ruthless dictator, and G. Gordon Liddy, convicted felon. Great friends McCain has.

Posted by: William J. LePetomaine | Oct 24, 2008 4:52:08 PM

Except for Krauthammer, people are so confused. And I think I know why. A vortex in the political time/space continuum has caused Sen. Obama to mistakenly run against Sen. McCain. But all things considered he should be running against Gov. Palin. They are the two less experienced, younger, great spokespersons. They both wrote a book. They both entered local politics in 1992 and climbed up from there (but to be fair I'm discounting any of Obama's community organizing experience there is so little information available). The two old guys, McCain and Biden, really should be facing off against each other don't you think? They're both a little flighty, with long, checkered histories and plenty of silly grimaces. So let's just tell them to switch it around a bit and we'll all be better off and less confused.

Posted by: 600vista | Oct 24, 2008 4:22:20 PM

Charle Krauthammer has a brilliant mind and is a highly respected member of the media.

Posted by: S Adams | Oct 24, 2008 4:17:59 PM

Scott McClellan Former Press Secretary endorses Obama.

Posted by: Lookup | Oct 24, 2008 10:11:07 AM
++++++++++++++++++++++++
Big freakin surprise! McClellan's mother,(who I voted for) ran for governor of Texas against Perry, successor to Bush and Bush's friend, whom he endorsed while McClellan was still White House press sec.
Guess McClellan has some hard feelings because he quit right after Bush's endorsement of Perry and started writing a "tell all" book.
No one really cares what Scott McClellan does, he's only important in his own mind.

Posted by: S Adams | Oct 24, 2008 4:16:00 PM

Why would that be interesting Virginian? Because he's black? Or couldn't it be because Mugabe, like Rove, has turned law enforcement into a tool to maintain power? Might that be the marginally more meaningful similarity?...

Now, I'm sure it doesn't interest you that the attorney's scandal stinks to high heaven, mountains of evidence available to support the contention that attorneys were fired for not orchestrating partisan witch hunts (while presumably others were not for doing Rove's bidding: see Siegelman, Don), and yet Mukaskey has steadfastly refused to investigate. I'm sure that raises no questions in that serenely clean place in your mind where dissonant cognitions go to die, but for the reality based community it raises a few questions.

Would absolutely LOVE to hear what your allegations of Senator Dodd are that haven't so much as bubbled to the surface of our media, liberal conspirators though they all are. It might be as humorous as your average Republican recounting of the cause of this financial crisis.

Posted by: Majorajam | Oct 24, 2008 4:01:52 PM

Wow majorajam.

If this election goes right, your talking about Chris Dodd and the gang, wrong and you can take your best shot at Rove.

Shaping up to be a high stakes contest, isn't it.

Interesting that you bring up Mugabe...

Posted by: Virginian | Oct 24, 2008 3:31:45 PM

Actually Michelle, turns out indictment by grand jury is insufficient. You have to be able to find a law enforcement agency prosecutor with the authority and semblance of integrity first. Given Rove's made over Mugabe-esque DOJ, that's the bottle neck.

Oh, sucks to be you guys. Above the law one day, jail birds the next...

Posted by: Majorajam | Oct 24, 2008 3:19:26 PM

And if there's one thing of which Krauthammer is expert, and there certainly isn't more than one, it's ginning up phony cases.

Posted by: Majorajam | Oct 24, 2008 3:14:44 PM

Charles Fried.

Ahh, another Harvard boy raises his hand. Someone, somewhere, should act surprised.

He objects to Palin as VP, but prefers the top job goes to a similarly inexperienced person, and a Marxist to boot. The Harvard gang must truly consider the rest of the country a ship of fools.

Posted by: Virginian | Oct 24, 2008 3:01:42 PM

Today's Republican Endorsements of Obama:

Reagan Appointee and (Recent) McCain Adviser Charles Fried Supports Obama: Fried asked that his name be removed from the several [McCain] campaign-related committees on which he serves. In that letter, he said that chief among the reasons for his decision "is the choice of Sarah Palin at a time of deep national crisis." --From TNR.com

McCain is a sinking ship. Even lifelong Republicans are bailing at this point...

Posted by: FelixRodriguez1 | Oct 24, 2008 2:22:06 PM

Brooklyn: Why isn't Karl Rove in jail?

Because, as far as I know...a person still has to be charged with a crime--maybe even by a grand jury--and convicted before he/she can be sent to jail. Not just because people don't like their politics.

Although--that may soon be changing given the current state of affairs. Did you see what happened when Obama didn't like what WGN was going to interview Stanley Kurtz? hmmm...

Have you noticed how freely the term "racist" gets thrown about?? and "hate crime" laws are already on the books.

Times they are a changing... and there is a Blustery Hot Obama Wind blowing our way.

Posted by: Michelle | Oct 24, 2008 2:09:49 PM

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