Leach to endorse Barack Obama

Witness the rise of the Obamacans! But I'm guessing Leach is all they'll be able to procure.

http://www.political-buzz.com/

Gee, you found one GOPer for Obama. How about Demos with favorable views of McCain, such as former Democrat VP candidate Joe Lieberman? Hillary Clinton said, "I know Sen. McCain has a lifetime of experience he will bring to the White House. And Sen. Obama has a speech he gave in 2002." Sen. John F. Kerry considered McCain as a running mate in 2004, calling McCain "a courageous, patriotic American who stands up for what he believes." Sen. Joseph R. Biden stated he would be "honored to run with or against John McCain." Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean stated he modeled his own presidential bid on McCain's 2000 run because of McCain's direct manner and considered McCain as a running mate in 2004, calling McCain "a courageous, patriotic American who stands up for what he believes." (Source: TV clips).

Wow. What has gone wrong with the Rovian Republicans, maybe they are tired of the Unamerican activities they have been engaged in for the last 8 years. They are tired of the bushing their Party has been party to, in that time. Rove and his minions have did everything they could think of to destroy the democratic concept of a helpful government, instead they what our government to carry the water for corporate America. That is unacceptable and undemocratic. Retire the Rovian Republicans, they can't govern straight !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.

Big deal - a has been professor endorses Obama. Lieberman (an actual U.S. Senator and former Democratic VP nominee, for those of you suffering from Obamnesia) is going to be a speaker at the Republican convention.

Jim Leach is a liberal now in academia. Funny how few conservatives teach at universities. Somehow liberals all end up in teaching or researching in very comfy jobs when around retirement.
Most liberals are Marxists like Obama so no big surprise.
Obama is using Leach end of story. No surprise here! Jerry White, Springfield, IL

You're not paying attention, right-wing commenters: we kicked Lieberman out of the party in 2006. If he speaks at the GOP convention, he'll be further punished.

He was also one of the reasons that Al Gore almost lost the 2000 election. You're totally welcome to Joementum. I sincerely hope, in fact, that McCain picks him for VP. You need all the help you can get, and Lieberman's the very best.

Leach now in academia and backing Obama. What choice does he have if he wants to fit in with all the others in the liberal professors in the lounge? Academia, just a step below being a politician with no term limits.

Leach worships at the altar of John Locke and Adam Smith. Always has. Always will. I suspect the people griping about him now are way too authoritarian for the likes of Locke and Smith. Somewhere along the way, too many people in the Republican Party forgot what conservatism is about, with the results that the GOP now looks more like a Chinese Communist Party convention than supporters of limited government.

Funny how few conservatives teach at universities. Somehow liberals all end up in teaching or researching in very comfy jobs when around retirement.Jerry White, Springfield, IL
Posted by: Jerry White | August 12, 2008 10:17 AM
Good observation Jerry White, perhaps the conservatives are too busy collecting tax breaks and cutting education instead of teaching American youth to prosper and live the American dream? At least the liberals have a sense of pride in teaching rather than selfishly sitting back and watching as education in America reaches an all time low.

Leach worships at the altar of John Locke and Adam Smith. Always has. Always will. I suspect the people griping about him now are way too authoritarian for the likes of Locke and Smith. Somewhere along the way, too many people in the Republican Party forgot what conservatism is about, with the results that the GOP now looks more like a Chinese Communist Party convention than supporters of limited government.

Posted by: DBX | August 12, 2008 11:38 AM

My guess is more than 98% of the so-called "conservatives" don't have the first clue who John Locke or Adam Smith were.

Your point is dead on.

Republicans should stop and think a minute: why are the most educated among us Democrats? Don't deride the educated because they don't agree with you, take some time and get educated yourselves, then rethink your political beliefs and see if they change.

Actually dems, you didn't kick Lieberman out of anything. He beat your nominee in an election. It's called he's the winner and you and LaMont are, yeah, losers.
He's very wisely joined the winning McCain team again. The Libune breathlessly reports what a FORMER congressman from Iowa does as if it's big news and refuses to report the words of praise for McCain from sitting US Senators like Lieberman and Russ Feingold. Even John Kerry and Hillary have words of praise for McCain. Amazing how well the swamp's Obama blinders work.

The truth is that if you read, study and teach where critical thinking is employed, you cannot support the GOP. As Colbert says, "the truth has a liberal bias." Decades ago, the GOP was more liberal than many of today's DEMs. There is nothing in the GOP mantra that is supportable today by fact or reason. The GOP is fueled by one premise; greed at the top, and nothing else.

you can also add these names to the former republicans who in the past supported their party's nominee, but who will not this time around club:

August 11, 2008, 7:01 pm
Obama-cans Unite

By Michael Luo

Led by a former Bush fund-raiser and a former U.S. Senator who bolted the G.O.P. several years ago, a group of current and former Republicans disenchanted with Senator John McCain and supportive of Senator Barack Obama are banding together to start a “Republicans for Obama” effort.

Rita Hauser, a New York philanthropist who raised money for both George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, is helping to organize the push to draw Republicans away from Mr. McCain and will serve as a spokeswoman for the group, alongside former U.S. Senator Lincoln Chafee, of Rhode Island, who was one of the most moderate Republicans in the Senate and became an independent after he lost his seat in 2006.

Ms. Hauser served as a finance chairwoman in New York for George W. Bush in 2000 and was a member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board during his first term, but she endorsed Senator John F. Kerry in 2004, because of her opposition to the Iraq War.

Ms. Hauser said she was motivated to support the presumed Democratic nominee, Mr. Obama, again by her feelings on Iraq. But she said others in the group were driven by other issues.

About 20 current and former Republicans make up the group’s leadership committee, including Douglas Kmiec, a Republican who served in the Justice Department under President Ronald Reagan and was a supporter of Mitt Romney during the Republican primary, and Dorothy Danforth Burlin, a Washington lawyer who is the daughter of former U.S. Senator John Danforth, another moderate Republican.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/11/obamacans-unite/

Jeff, John McCain has had words of praise for Obama. Does that mean you agree?

A bitter looser-

Posted by: Mac Ivinovich | 10:22 AM
What do you mean you kicked Lieberman out in 2006, if that's so, then why were they trying to get Dems to sign a petition recently to kick him out?

Hey, Obama gave words of praise to Reagan, but he got some serious heat for it.

Obama getting support from a professed republican doesn't mean Obama works across the board. His record of voting shows no sign of any kind of compromise on his FAR LEFT views. Look at McCain, now that's someone who has his name on legislation that proves he works across the aisle to get things done.

No one thinks Obama does, or ever will. He crosses the aisle now, only for a win. He knows majority doesn't sit on the far left side he supports all these years.

Paul, and just how did you come to the conclusion that the most educated around us are Democrats? Was a poll taken asking "are you the most educated, and are you a Democrat"? The way this country has been run and given the choices we currently have, you don't have to be educated to vote "none of the above." On the other hand you can just go with what the media is telling you to do. But you don't need an education to do that either.