(Updated)
There is a juvenile effort underway on the internet by Obama supporters to be heard on conservative websites. Democrats are posing as “Republicans for Obama” because they suspect (perhaps correctly) that liberal emotionalism will not be taken seriously. The scheme was recently joined by disgruntled ex-GOP legislators, Lincoln Chafee (former Sen. RI) and Jim Leach (former Rep. IA).
The scheme is to say “I am a Republican but this time I am voting for Obama” usually with some other message in the context of the article that was posted. I have seen countless examples of phony “Republicans for Obama” on this site, including this typical example from February 29th:
A once proud and “good�? group, the party has been hijacked by its own terrorists: those with an aptitude for “reinventing�? history, shaming others and using FORCE – not power – to accomplish self-serving agendas. I am a registered Republican and I will be voting – as will many other registered Republicans – for Barack Obama.
Believe it or not, this sort of obvious example is typical for this site and elsewhere. I suspect that most of these Democrat commenters are kids or young adults who think such a transparent tactic will be influential.
In reality, exit polls show extremely few cross-over votes for Barack Obama which is what one would expect for a liberal candidate. Based on the tiny percentage, one wonders if they all blog.
A college student started a website called Republicans for Obama which has been linked by every liberal website in cyberspace. The group boasts a whopping “over 1000 members” which means that every single one of these fakers have commented on the Right Pundits blog. HA!
And yet if one Googles “Republicans for Obama” you will find over 2 million examples of indexed comments from Obama supporters typing their script into conservative blogs. They spread their seed very thin.
The Republicans for Obama fiction will undoubtedly cause people to question the veracity of Barack Obama and his supporters.
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As an update to this story, a renegade ex-Senator named Lincoln Chafee has put his name behind the “Republicans for Obama” movement. He was the most liberal GOP Senator, pro-abortion, anti-gun, and anti-war, who was defeated for re-election in Rhode Island. He is understandably bitter that he had little support from the party.
(post originally published in March, 2008)
March 1st, 2008 at 7:47 am
This is a joke. We had one of those hear a few weeks ago. It was a total joke. He was claiming to be a R while throwing every far left “solution” that Obama is offering as the direction that’s best for the U.S.
I can see the kids getting together to think of that. It is probably some 17 year female who is told to prtend that she is a 40 year old male, disenchanted Republican. It is so obvious.
March 1st, 2008 at 8:15 am
dear MDefl –
I am actually a 28 year old male who runs a fairly substantial investment fund — and the person McCain quoted in his article. I just read said article as well as your reply to my republican father who is 54 years old. He’s a lifelong republican. Who is he voting for? The next president of the United States. Barack Obama. Who is my Grandma, who has spent her life working for a conservative Baptist Church in Denver funding missionaries and serving the poor voting for? Obama. Why? Because he is sincere. Because they remember when our country was run by people who didn’t carry around a doctrine of war, economy fixing and suppression of ideas and do it so vainly in the name of the Republican party.
March 1st, 2008 at 8:21 am
McCain – after spending some time trying to contribute to the dialogue and be persuasive, I actually have reconsidered my position on this whole thing. I hope major media outlets pick up your stories. I hope the most amount of people possible read your drivel (that’s a word that means “nonsense, childish talk” for those of you without a high school diploma on this site). The truth is clear to anyone with a discerning heart and your message rings so hollow and so desperate. I am going to forward the link to your site to as many people as i can that are within my republican circle. We wont let you hijack our voice and our party. The more people that read your stuff, the more you will be known as an out-of-step-with-your-party group of nobodies. Hopefully, too, as people rally around your nonsense, fresh Republican voices will come to the table with ideas for a future and a hope — not hatred and fear.
March 1st, 2008 at 8:26 am
And, actually, one last question for any of you guys on this site that may be helpful to me…
Are the people running this site and agreeing with its content out-of-step? Or, is that the party has gone in an irrevsible direction and i need to bow out of it? I want to believe in a greater Republican party than this…
I would value your opinions and perhaps this would center us all around a more constructive dialogue than the back and forth…
March 1st, 2008 at 8:33 am
I find it hard to believe that you have an entire family of imposters for Obama.
Re major media, they do all the time. Reuters linked the Obama Muslim thread (twice). The Chicago-Sun times picked up the piece on Obama’s church. RightPundits is one of the largest conservative blogs on the net. Please do forward our links. People do it all the time.
March 1st, 2008 at 8:52 am
Hi Jason,
Did you know that Saved By the Bell is on TV now? I am sure, that you are a 17 year old female poster.
BTW- without looking it up, what is negative convexity?
March 1st, 2008 at 10:01 am
Jason,
I am sorry to break the news to you but as Political Editor of Rightpundits.com, I have just pulled rank and officially endorsed Hillary Clinton.
March 1st, 2008 at 10:25 am
Jason,
Just so you know, we are not some homogenous group of posters here. I was specifically asked to post here because I disagreed with McCain. There are many here who are very dissatisfied with the GOP. I was and still am very pissed about McCain as our nominee. However, if you think the answer is Obama you are either a fool or a liar who is not really a conservative. No one who has been a life long conservative/republican can possibly believe that the answer to all of our problems is someone with the most liberal voting record in the senate. Someone who WILL raise our taxes and increase the government dole. I just cannot believe there is a significant number of people out there who are conservative that support Obama. Obama isn’t even moderate, he is liberal as hell. Does the GOP need reformation? I think it does. Is the answer Obama, no way.
March 1st, 2008 at 10:28 am
if i recall from b-school it has something to do with callable bonds. I’m in venture capital so we deal with more (candidly) simple concepts like preferred stock, option pools, M&A, etc.
March 1st, 2008 at 10:29 am
BTW – so, do you choose McCain or Clinton?
March 1st, 2008 at 10:32 am
McCain, you should hit the streets and do video interviews with voters. I have done this personally in coffee shops, social gatherings, etc. I run around with conservative wealth. The unanimous answer is that McCain is NOT the answer and that to undo what we have just endured we need someone with a spine — they all say Obama. I am not saying it is my preferred choice. Just the least of three evils. And, I will take a good MAN over a GOOD pundit or politician any day.
March 1st, 2008 at 10:39 am
~I don’t belieeeeve you~
If indeed you ran an investment fund (and had an interest in continuing to do so), one might find it difficult to reconcile that with supporting Sen. Obama, given his outlook on economic things.
Here is a little something his wife was saying that seems to be revealing about the Obama’s take on such things as investment funds:
“Michelle Obama damns business as “the money-making industry.” By contrast, she says, the Obamas are in “the helping industry.”
As the manager of a substantial investment fund (and at only 28, well done!), I’m sure you’re accustomed to looking ahead to steer your fund through upcoming trends and have foreseen nothing but sunshine and good times from Obama, right?
March 1st, 2008 at 10:41 am
Hillary Clinton is going to surprise you this Tuesday. I predict she will win 2 out 4 states, OH and RI while keeping her loss in TX very close. Obama will win handily in VT.
It will still be close enough for the Clinton’s to stay in the race.
March 1st, 2008 at 10:41 am
Jason is only running the burgers to the counter.
March 1st, 2008 at 11:01 am
I’m not sure who to vote for right now. I may write in Mickey Mouse, I may leave it blank and vote for other local officials. I may vote for McCain. The lesser of two evils is not a satisfying vote though. I could not, in good conscious, vote for Obama, unless Huckabee is the nominee.
March 1st, 2008 at 11:45 am
Jason, send one of your video interviews via email and we will post it. This is an invitation because I do not actually believe you have done interviews in coffee shops. Rather, I believe you lie incessantly because you are uncomfortable in your own skin as a Democrat. Send the video.
What makes Obama a “good man”? Add depth to that assertion.
March 1st, 2008 at 12:03 pm
McCain,
Me thinks we are about to lose the poster named Jason who I suspect is really called Julia or some other feminine name.
March 1st, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Jason? Julia? Anyone…anyone…
March 1st, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Another troll vanquished!
March 1st, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Get rid of this imposter!
March 1st, 2008 at 4:52 pm
actually boys, or should i call you ladies, i have been working all day unlike you clowns.
March 1st, 2008 at 5:26 pm
McCain – i didnt say i was doing interviews with a camera. I do it casually, and out of passion for the process. That said, do I have your word that if I do in fact go through with videoing folks in coffee shops — you will post it?
March 1st, 2008 at 5:30 pm
IM1RU2, in the VC community, we fuel innovation regardless of economic cycles. M&A in the space i play in won’t slow down — even as an inevitable correction takes place. Therefore, the pace of investment and the money i would make as a fund manager wont either.
March 1st, 2008 at 5:30 pm
McCain, as an aside, who sells ads for RightPundit?
March 1st, 2008 at 5:35 pm
McCain, you pose a “fair” question about what makes Obama a good man and I need to give you points in this one because i dont have a scientific or provable answer. McCain has shifted his message strongly right as he entered the primaries so i dont think he stands for much. Clinton, while a brilliant politicial/professional – is just that. She changes quite often. I am encouraged by Obama not by policy or track record but by the character to write out his opinions and consistently speak to them. He doesnt waver or shift in his persona or themes and it gives — if nothing else the illusion of — him an air of trustworthiness.