More Conservatives Back Obama

It seems like the last nails are being hammered into the coffin of the McCain campaign. Many conservatives are backing away from McCain/Palin campaign. Here are a few examples:

Ken Adelman

The latest major defector from the Republican ticket is Ken Adelman, a conservative who worked under Reagan, Bush, Ford and Nixon. Adelman says:

"When the economic crisis broke, I found John McCain bouncing all over the place. In those first few crisis days, he was impetuous, inconsistent, and imprudent; ending up just plain weird... Having worked with Ronald Reagan for seven years, and been with him in his critical three summits with Gorbachev, I've concluded that that's no way a president can act under pressure."

Adelman also said that the choice of Sarah Palin for VP was the last straw:

"Not only is Sarah Palin not close to being acceptable in high office -- I would not have hired her for even a mid-level post in the arms-control agency. But that selection contradicted McCain's main two, and best two, themes for his campaign -- Country First, and experience counts. Neither can he credibly claim, post-Palin pick."

Colin Powell

Yesterday, Colin Powell gave a compelling argument for his endorsement of Barack Obama, criticizing McCain on his handling of the economic crisis and for his irresponsible pick of Sarah Palin:

Christopher Buckley

The conservative/libertarian son of William F. Buckley endorsed Obama in this article.

John McCain has changed. He said, famously, apropos the Republican debacle post-1994, “We came to Washington to change it, and Washington changed us.” This campaign has changed John McCain. It has made him inauthentic. A once-first class temperament has become irascible and snarly; his positions change, and lack coherence; he makes unrealistic promises, such as balancing the federal budget “by the end of my first term.” Who, really, believes that? Then there was the self-dramatizing and feckless suspension of his campaign over the financial crisis. His ninth-inning attack ads are mean-spirited and pointless. And finally, not to belabor it, there was the Palin nomination. What on earth can he have been thinking?

Susan Eisenhower

I've updated this post to add the endorsement of Obama by Susan Eisenhower, the Republican granddaughter of Dwight Eisenhower.

Ensuring an Obama Landslide

The truth is that whatever people think about McCain, Sarah Palin is not qualified to be President. The VP's job is to take the President's place if he is no longer able to serve. Bush has proven that having a weak, incompetent puppet of a President doesn't work. I think Sarah Palin as President would be more incompetent than Bush.

Right now it looks as if Obama is going to win by a landslide. I think an Obama landslide can only happen if people actually go out and vote. The Republican Party is already up to dirty tricks again like this arrest for Republican voter-registration fraud shows.

One way to help ensure an Obama/Biden win is to go to this webpage and volunteer a bit over the next few weeks to help get a large voter turnout:
http://www.barackobama.com/volunteer/