So the reporter who brought you stories on signing statements and such issues has been relegated to the political beat?
Readers... ??????????
Oh, this article also indicates that OBAMA should WIN Indiana!!!
We'll see, won't we, readers?
"by Charlie Savage, Globe Staff | April 26, 2008
FORT WAYNE, INDIANA - Throughout her life, Linda Eggert, a 51-year-old stay-at-home mother, has been a staunch Republican. But on May 6, when the marathon Democratic primary comes to Indiana, Eggert will cast her ballot for Hillary Clinton.
"Everybody is kind of rethinking their politics because of everything that is going on," Eggert said, citing her growing concerns about Iraq and the economy. She added, "Do I think [Indiana] could go Democrat for once in November? I hope it could."
.... Eggert, for one, says she plans to vote as a Democrat because she is disgusted by the Iraq war, and that she picked Clinton because she was most impressed by the New York senator in debates. Eggert said her mother - another "lifelong Republican" - and several Republican friends are also voting for Clinton or Obama this year, all because they sincerely think their favored candidate should win....
"I know Republicans that are planning on voting in the Democratic primary because they are particularly impressed with Obama," said Brian Howey, who publishes a newsletter for Indiana political insiders.
Among the Indiana Republicans to endorse Obama is William Ruckelshaus, the former Indiana House majority leader who gained fame when he resigned as deputy attorney general during the Nixon administration's "Saturday Night Massacre" of officials who refused to shut down the Watergate investigation. Ruckelshaus, a member of a prominent Indiana Republican family, was also the head of the Environmental Protection Agency. "Senator Obama's ability to attract not only Democrats, but also Republicans and independents, makes him uniquely qualified to build the broad coalitions needed to address our nation's challenges," Ruckelshaus said when announcing his endorsement earlier this month.
That worries me because it sounds to globalist, but I'm only looking at the potential winner of the primary here.
Ruckleshaus isn't alone. Dede Hall, a former Fort Wayne city councilwoman who was elected as a Republican, was playing bridge recently with a group of friends - "a very conservative, upper middle-class group" she says - when it emerged that all eight of the women were thinking of voting for Obama.
So Hitlery gets one vote and it leads.
Obama has EIGHT REPUBLICAN WOMEN in his corner and that is FURTHER DOWN in the piece!
Do I really need to even say it, readers?
The rare spectacle of a relevant Indiana primary, Hall said, is providing an outlet for Republicans who are dissatisfied with the status quo to reconsider Democrats.
"I feel myself becoming more of an independent voter," Hall said. Citing her dissatisfacation with soaring federal spending under Republican rule, Hall added: "If someone asked me if I was a Republican at this point, I wouldn't want to be."
Oh, I HEAR YOU THERE, lady!!!!
