I never saw that coming. The title is from this article:
They're called the Obamacons -- the conservative thinkers who are disgusted with the Republicans and are rallying to Democrat Barack Obama as the nation's economic and diplomatic savior.
They are joining younger evangelical leaders who see more to their religious mission than slavish devotion to Republican social mores, and fiscal conservatives who reject the war-fueled spending of President George W. Bush.
"The Bush coalition is dissolving," pollster John Zogby told AFP.
"We have polling showing one-fifth of conservatives supporting Obama," he said.
I wouldnt consider Andrew Sullivan to be conservative, high-priest or much of a thinker.
I wouldnt consider it any violation of his personal principles for John McCain to overtly support Barack Obama, although it would be particularly strange to hear the admission in public under the presently extenuating circumstances.
"The GOP is crumbling", said Kevcin. "No it's not", said little Nicole.
Anything Zogby says, you should take with a huge grain of salt.
That said, I think that we're already getting the answer to what I thought would be the key question of the 2008 election - would Obama unite Democrats more than McCain can unite Republicans? I wonder if there will be any national polling after July 4 showing the race closer than five points? I said a few days ago that this race feels like Dole-Clinton 1996, and I think that's still the case, at least for me.
Why a move towards Obama by Conservatives? Maybe we should be asking Obama's mentor of twenty years for his ignorant, biased and racist opinion? Why not a move towards Ron Paul? Is the USA in decline or what?
Carl Snare
The only "high priests of US conservatism" that signaled any support of Obama, that I'm aware of, were only doing so to punish the Republican party for nominating a moderate they felt betrayed them. It never had anything to do with liking Obama's policies as much as believing they'd be so destructive, on a Carter-level scale, that it would ensure voters would run back to a zombie-Reagan in 2012. I'm quite sure that Obama will get the support of a great deal of conservative moderates and independent conservatives who are frustrated and distubed by the Iraq war and its ramifications and are giving that issue priority over any concerns they may have with Obama's domestic policies as they often feel that it is far more damaging. Many libertarians and Ron Paul supporters would certainly seem to fall into this group.
But this article seems to reference 'atypical high priests'... which to me reads more along the lines of marginalized paleocons. As with many news articles... the headline isn't well supported by the content. But it certainly gets your attention.
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Glock21 Op/Ed
I love how Libertarians who always have hated McCain think they signal some sort of mass movement away from McCain.