Welcome to the Big Kids Pool – Republicans for Obama
I received notice that the Obama campaign has finally officially recognized the movement called “Republicans for Obama (R.F.O.)” The formal “leak” was last night by The New York Times. For several months, I managed the press operations for this group and we voluntarily took on the role of the voice crying in the wilderness. I believe I still have scars from the ideological battles I participated in with Laura Ingraham, John Gibson and Neil Cavuto of Fox News Channel.
I decided to leave my responsibilities at R.F.O. to write a national politics column for Examiner.com as well as post my moderate Republican / Libertarian musings about the campaign on “The Moderate Voice.” My concern, at the time of my leaving, was centered on how much influence the Obama campaign would assert on the message of R.F.O. The group was effective in the primaries because we stayed true to our message of fiscal responsibility without the need for mandating social policy.
The grassroots leadership of R.F.O. did not care about the limelight or trying to get a position in an Obama administration; we just thought he was (and still is) the best candidate. It would be a real shame if the hard work of these folks over the past nineteen months is hi-jacked by Obama’s campaign, or worse, by disgruntled Republicans who did not have the guts to come forward to publicly support Senator Obama before he became the presumptive Democratic nominee.
As my mother still proudly tells me, “the proof is in the pudding.” Will Obama’s campaign allow this new R.F.O. to have some credibility in Republican circles by pointing out the good (and the not so good) points about his candidacy? Or will this just be another coalition piece that has no connection to reality because the truth is momentarily inconvenient? Welcome to the Big Kid’s Pool “Republicans for Obama”…now it is time to see if you will sink under political pressure or swim to victory like Michael Phelps.
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Kids, period. Chafee, etc. Non-conservatives, non-Republicans
RFO's are nothing more then Rinos.
Democrats for McCain are nothing more then Dinos.
I find it hard to comprehend that a party goes thru some bad times and the first thing people want to do is to vote for the other party instead of working to fix whats wrong with their own.
The Hillary Clinton people need to get over it and fix what ails their party. The GOP needs to get over it and fix what ails their party. Not simply vote for Obama or McCain because they are mad that their party is straying.
Fix it or break it.
Breaking seems to be what is on peoples minds this election.
Hi Jacking
Big Kids Pool
All sounds a little – Chicken Little'ish to me
Republicans for Obama isn't anything unusual.
The reasons why many of them are for Obama are not what it first may seem..
Kids, period. Chafee, etc. Non-conservatives, non-Republicans
Chafee is pretty much interchangeable with Evan Bayh here. “Come on in, step right up, ladieeeeeeeeeeeees and gentlemennnnnnnnn! Here's your perfectly packaged presidential candidate, right heeeeeeeeeeeere! We Big Gummint folks love this guy and it's the guy you have to vote for this year, Dems, as often as y'can!”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/us/politics/1…
Greenschemes, someone who voted for the party's choice last time might want to vote for someone else this time?
Blasphemy! Kick 'em out of the party for choosing an individual over party loyalty!
Rino's / Dino's / whatever… what this country needs is people to think for themselves this election cycle.
Speaking only for myself I'm glad to be “one more old white man at the golf course for Obama in '08“