A dramatic video capture of bigotry, confrontation, and retreat … all within a 3 minute segment. Most gratifying of all, this clip shows campaign staffers and supporters demonstrating more courage than their own candidate who, to date, has failed to acknowledge and condemn such conduct.
UPDATE (5:20 pm): This report about another GOP defector in an important swing state:
A longtime Republican State Senator in Wisconsin history announced on Tuesday that she would be supporting Barack Obama, in part because of the negative tone of the McCain-Palin campaign and, specifically, the use of "dishonorable" anti-Obama robocalls.
"All of us should be extremely wary of the half truths and outright untruths that have been spread by the recent negative campaigning and shameful automated phone calls," said Barbara Lorman of Fort Atkinson. "While my admiration for Senator Obama has grown with his positive approach to addressing the challenges facing our nation, my disappointment with the McCain campaigned has deepened. The negative tactics are inappropriate, downright dishonorable and have no place in the State of Wisconsin."
In issuing her statement, Lorman became the latest in a growing line of GOP officials who have publicly denounced the recent tone and tactics of the McCain camp ... [including] Sens. Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe and Norm Coleman, as well as former Secretary of State Colin Powell ...
Maybe a few of these guys will decide that Obama would be a better way to go this time around. Or, just as good, they and others like them could form the core of a better Republican Party a few election cycles from now--one that won't make the rest of the world cringe when it comes back into power.
ReplyDeleteRepublican Party ... one that won't make the rest of the world cringe when it comes back into power
ReplyDeleteThat is my hope too. Realistically, Dems will not hold on to power forever, nor will Repubs, although each thinks they will. It is the radical fringe that we, Ds and Rs alike, should all be worried about. Recent polarization and gridlock in government is a product of this extremism. All sides can and should do better.
Obama will show us the way if the extremists don't wreck it.
Well it's nice to know that somebody (i.e. defecting republican senators no less) understood my post today.
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