If Senator Obama was not the choosen one of the left, they would take a few more minutes looking as his economic policies and realize that they are incompatible with each other.

My God… it truly is a funny world.

Related story, no surprise to SD or others who follow things: Yesterday I was on the road at lunchtime, was listening to NPR until I had enough of the smarm. (Only children say “um,” and when they lick their lips and smack it's even worse than their stupid hardening of consonants, and over-emphasizing sibilants and failing to voice voiced consonants, turning Zs into Ss, and that's in addition to irritating effect pronunciation and diction in general. As someone else told me, these people with their irritating speaking deserve a whacking with a Louisville Slugger. Bah, humbug!) I was parked where I was having lunch and turned to AM and the Limbaugh show for a moment — was it tiresome or of interest? — and a caller was telling Limbaugh that McCain was unlikely to have a chance against Clinton, and that, from a conservative viewpoint, “All three candidates stink, Rush, admit it. All three stink!” Limbaugh started laughing and then so did the caller, but Limbaugh did not try to refute the caller's statement after that.

My couple of minutes at a standtill over, I shut off the radio and went inside to lunch, but I remembered that brief exchange (a few seconds) on the radio. The caller was right.

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“I just doubt that the suburban former Republican voters will be happy with the resutls of an Obama administration and large Democratic majorities in both houses of the Senate.”

We get what we pay for, or vote for. (To the extent the politicians aren't lying, of course.) There's a lot of disenchantment with the way things currently are, and the GOP isn't presenting any substantial alternative, and a positive alternative (making it more appealing than merely a “lesser of two evils”), to the Democratic Party.

Many will vote Dem this year to punish the GOP. Besides, why waste time with Dem Lite when you can have the real thing? (Lesson illustrated with Dole in 1996)

However, since John McCain is clearly unfit to be president and since the Republican Party is clearly in the middle of a collapse from which it will not recover, it makes since that Republicans would cross over. Why support a losing candidate and have no say in policy versus trying to moderate the liberal excesses of the Democratic Party. I just doubt that the suburban former Republican voters will be happy with the resutls of an Obama administration and large Democratic majorities in both houses of the Senate.