Top Republicans for Obama

Two top Republican businessmen and party fundraisers are throwing their brainpower, their intimate understanding of Republican core values and their money behind getting Senator Barack Obama elected as U.S. President.

Authors Wilbur O. Colom and James W. Parkinson have teamed up to write a new 104-page book that makes a fiscal and social argument on why conservatives should vote for Obama. Their book, “Turning Red States Blue: Obama’s Mission to Win the Republican Vote”. (read more . . . )

“Small town America is hurting and crying out for change,” said Colom, president of Genesis Press which is publishing the book. “For years conservative voters have been distracted with wedge issues like gay marriage and abortion, while their jobs are being exported away, killing the local economy.”

In the book’s introduction, the authors write, “The single most important reason we support Barack Obama is that he has emerged as a leader who can cast aside labels and focus on solutions rather than on partisan verbal assaults.” In another passage they write, “Sen. Obama understands that the ‘smallness’ of politics and making ‘cheap political points’ stops elected leaders in Washington from rolling up our sleeves and building a working consensus.”

Colom and Parkinson also want to dispel the myth that conservative white voters won’t vote for a black man to represent them, pointing out that Mississippi State Senator Eric Powell (D – District 4) won in rural Mississippi in an area that is 87 percent white, and Alabama State Representative James Fields (D – 12th District) won in a rural area that is 96 percent white.

They believe that Obama can do nationally what Powell and Fields have done locally in their rural cities.

“Fiscal conservatives and budget-watching Republicans who don’t believe that Jesus has a position on tax policy, climate change, or judicial appointments, find the current state of the Republican Party frustratingly off-track.” Added Colom, “Our larger goal is to address the issues that concern all Republicans and hopefully provide information and analysis that will lead them to cast their ballot, with pride, for Barack Obama in November.”

Will it be enough to win?  Forget the polls, forget the news, go to NPR for unbiased information. NPR has a map that is not based just on national polls and national media. The election 2008 map on NPR is connected to local politics and something to trust.  Also, you can see what happens if Pennsylvania, currently undecided, goes red or blue . . . it makes all the difference in the election and the world.

This screenshot is current, for this date. As you can see there is allot of yellow and it could go in any direction.  Although I would guess that if the election is an ethical election most would be blue.  But, if it is not, the GOP will win by unethical means, just like in 2000 and 2004.

But, I hear that many US citizens will be moving to Canada . . . and I would too.  Maybe a nice house boat on Lake Superior.

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