Adelman's only doing that because he's black! Racism!

(Wait...what? Oh.)

Adelman's not a real Republican! He's a plant! He was never a real Republican!

(Wait...Nixon? Really?)

Adelman is obviously a Muslim.

In his endorsement of Obama Adelman said not only is Sarah Palin not ready to be Commander in Chief she isn't even qualified for a middle-level job at the Arms Control & Disarmament Agency.

Quite a repudiation of the GOP ticket by a prominent Republican -- second big name GOPer in two days.

The rats leave the sinking ship.

Just wonderin'...if all these Conservatives are endorsing Obama, does that mean that they're also all socialists now? Isn't this how guilt by association works?

(I gotta say, part of me is LOVING the return of the Red Scare...some oldies never go out of style ;)

It's bad to start wars under an erratic, temperamental president. The con-con goal isn't to foment nuclear war or global annihilation but rather to assert US interests through conflict. John McCain would be much more likely to press the red button. I also think Barack Obama's foreign policy will be more aggressive than most progressives expect.

Some of these Republicans endorsing Obama are probably angling for jobs in the Obama administration.

"[McCain's] hiring of the Bush attack squad, South Carolina 2000, made me view this honorable man as heading a dishonorable effort. And that's still the case. It's pretty disgusting, what he's doing."

It's too Adelman didn't condemn as disgusting Bush's use of said attack squad to do precisely what McCain's using it for now.

I guess it all depends on who's attacking whom.

"It's too bad Adelman..."

My bad.

Thanks to George W. Bush, we're all socialists now.

Many of these endorsements are starting to sound eerily familiar.

Palin, erratic, and inconsistent.

Buckley said the same thing. Powell said the same thing. Hell, even Peggy Noonan practically said the same thing.

I have a feeling the Republican party is in for big changes after they lose this election, and that's bad news for the Palins, Bachmanns, and Guillianis of the world.

I heard Lawrence Eagleberger - one of the four Secretaries of State (all Republicans) endorsing McCain - this morning on Morning Joe.

Dear Lord, what a doddering and incoherent old wreck of a man! I don't know how old he is - I could look it up - but he was just babbling about how little experience Obama has and getting names and titles wrong. He couldn't remember Krushev' name and called Senator Obama "Governor Obama".

He completely dismissed Obama's service on the Foreign Affairs Committee and when Lawrence O'Donnell asked him why he had endorsed Reagan in 1980 and Bush in 2000 (governors who had no foreign policy experience), Eagleberger waived off the comparison by saying merely, "not the same, not the same".

Eagleberger made McCain look sensible and coherent!

A lot of the Republicans that are endorsing Obama seem to be the kind of people that take policy seriously, even if their policy preferences seem closer to what you'd expect from a McCain Administration. I suspect that the same vacillations that have made the McCain campaign the butt of easy McCain vs. McCain clips on TDS and the like have also given them the idea that McCain fundamentally lacks any serious policy approach.

Obama is winning over these Republicans, it seems, by simply having some apparent seriousness and interest in governing.

If there is anyone in America that created a crisis beyond comprehension it is Bush and Company with the help of FOX news. Here, the Liars Paradox is Fox.

Biden reminded all American’s that Obama will be tested…This is no gaffe, it is an honest staight talking point, Obama will be tested and smeared by this media from this time forward. Fox and hate radio will smear Obama 24x7.

America, one must remember the Russian missile crisis, after JFK was elected the Russians with deliberate action proceeded to wage war with America by planting an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction right off our shores.Fox News did not exist then so they obviously have no clue.

For heavens sake even Bush was tested after some time. 911 occurred, and Bush grossly are failing to get Osama Bin Laden. Grossly led America into a never ending war in Iraq, wasted our youth and military resources, plus reduced our economy in to chaos.

America what Fox does not want to talk about is that we are in real time failure right now via Bush and Company.

For me, Obama has to get into the presidential driver seat to see what the hell is going on. To be sure it will be hell to dig out of this Bush McCain chaos.

Of course, another way to look at all these Republican endorsements is to acknowledge that Obama really is quite centrist. All this talk of socialism aside, he's possibly even more centrist than Bill Clinton was.

That's not necessarily a bad thing however.

Eagleberger made McCain look sensible and coherent!

Eagleburger is 78. My old man is 84, with Parkinson's disease, and he's far more coherent than either of them.

Although he does refer to Obama as "that colored boy." Voted for him anyway, though. He's convinced McCain's going to take away his Social Security.

Quite a repudiation of the GOP ticket by a prominent Republican -- second big name GOPer in two days. Posted by: pj in jesusland

Looks nice in press clippings. But since most of the great unwashed don't know who he is ("Arms control!? Another one of those pinko bastards that want's to take away my guns?") the endorsement of elitists with education and resumes just don't matter. Amongst the rabid right and the low-information "undecideds" (aka, the clueless), Joe the Plumber still carries greater weight.

What we are seeing is the 'intellectual' wing of the conservative movement, the one founded by William Buckley, now rejecting the anti-intellectulism and empty rhetoric of the religious right they spent years courting and can now now longer control.

clearly the Obamacans are all elitists.

if by elitist one means that they actually value competency and think that perhaps now is a good time for some managerial and governing skills - both to get through current crises and to keep the Republican brand from getting worse.

ironically, the pure dogmatists among the right are calling for the heads of all of these "traitors." these "traitors" are doing more to salvage the brand by avoiding yet another show of unimaginable incompetence and rejecting the ascention of Palin than all of the diatribes of Lowry, Hanson Davis, Sowell, etc.

Well, I'll tell you what it is! It is a race thing!! Just like Rush said about Powell!!! It is a race thing!!!!

Wait .. Adelman isn't black is he? Or even brown.

Never mind.

@phoebes Lawrence Eagleberger is 79 and I never did get why he would use Henry K , who was responsible for prolonging the Vietnam war in order to get Nixon reelected. Lame Lame Lame

The act of denying McCain and taking up Obama by such a conservative as Adelman reminds me of the story I heard recently:

A couple were called at home and asked for whom they would vote. The wife called into the other room and asked, "Who are we voting for?"

The answer, audible over the phone, "We're voting for the nigger!"

That's it, it's over -- game, set and match. They're voting for "the nigger."

Think about it.

Ed

I just imagined this headline: ROVE ENDORSES OBAMA!!!!!

Is it beyond the realm of possibility? I have no idea. Hm ... that may be the one thing that could make Obama lose the election.

I'm feeling a little dizzy.

thorin-1

You're dead on! The Delusional Stupidity Leviathan is most certainly out of control.

if McCain can't hold onto Adelman, it speaks to a broader and more significant problem for the Republican ticket.

cmdicely and thorin-1 both already got it, the smart Republicans know they have a charlie-foxtrot of a GOP ticket and are genuinely concerned for the U.S. of A.

Country before party, it seems, is not an entriely dead concept for the right.

We would do well to remember that while the Republican Party is a disgrace, there are plenty of individuals who self-identify as Republicans that are just as aghast at the fascist, extremist right-wing fringe as any Democrat. Megalomania also nails it - the protracted ugliness will come AFTER the election. These pre-election shenanigans are simply the warm up for the marathon yet to come.

This is all so much bullshit. None of this is shocking. Listen, the reason these "Obamacans" are suddenly coming out of the woodwork is solely because McCain is going to lose, and lose big. Couple that with the fact that a lot of them never liked him that much in the first place and you have a perfect storm of Republicans going over the wall. These dolts see the same polls as everybody else. Why not be on the winning side of history? And they wouldn't feel too upset to see McCain (the "Maverick") get his comeuppance.

Has anyone heard from Rush Limpball? He was supposed to get back to us when he found a white, ultra-liberal, inexperienced candidate that Powell had endorsed.

Rush, can you get on the internets and go on the google and find the same information for Buckley, Noonan, Adelman, and Smerconish?

No one should ever mention Ken Adelman without pointing out that as a translator for a visiting bigshot when he was a Peace Corps volunteer in Zaire in the 1970s, HE is the guy who taught the soon to be restored champ to call "Ali, boom a yay!" to the crowd that watched him knock out George Foreman. I mean -- how cool is that?

That is all.

The world is a mess when people support individuals who believe it is a "right" to kill innocent babies. Have a backbone and state what you believe rather than what you think most of the public wants to hear. Cheers to McCain and Palin for fighting the good fight, someday those honorable messages will be rewarding. Those same people think Bill Clinton is a hero...he is the biggest "ASS" that ever occupied the White House.