Conservatives for Obama

Brigitte Bardot (sex queen from the 1960s, extreme right-wing fanatic, and animal-rights advocate): Sarah Palin is a a "disgrace to women." And, on Palin's comment that she was a pit bull with lipstick, Bardot said: "I know dogs well and I can assure you that no pit bull, no dog, nor any other animal is as dangerous as you are."

William F. Buckley's son, Christopher, is (not surprisingly) a conservative. He knows John McCain and has written for him. He is backing Barack Obama.

Conservative David Brooks, who argued forcefully on moral grounds for American military intervention in Iraq and said that American and British forces would be welcomed as liberators, says that Sarah Palin "represents a fatal cancer to the Republican party." You may know already that Sarah Palin is John McCain's running mate.

Well known conservative Andrew J. Bacevich, in an article for The New Republic magazine says that a conservative revival depends on a US withdrawal from Iraq, which Obama supports. You may have noticed that John McCain vehemently opposes this.

Conservative columnist Thomas Sowell: "A number of friends of mine have commented on an odd phenomenon that they have observed--conservative Republicans they know who are saying that they are going to vote for Barack Obama. It seemed at first to be an isolated fluke, perhaps signifying only that my friends know some strange conservatives. But apparently columnist Robert Novak has encountered the same phenomenon and has coined the term 'Obamacons' to describe the conservatives for Senator Obama."

And what is it about Republicans that they can't stand intelligence, book-larnin', 'n such? Brooks says "The Republicans have alienated whole professions. Lawyers now donate to the Democratic Party over the Republican Party at 4-to-1 rates. With doctors, it's 2-to-1. With tech executives, it's 5-to-1. With investment bankers, it's 2-to-1. It took talent for Republicans to lose the banking community." Of course, there's still Carly Fiorina, the fired former head of Hewlett Packard who disgraced the company. She's still a McCain supporter.

Are you a big fan of Ronnie Ray-Gun, Jack Kemp, or Newt Gingrich? Larry Hunter says he is and he's backing Obama: "Obama promises a humbler engagement with our allies, while promising retaliation against any enemy who dares attack us. That’s what conservatism used to mean - and it’s what George W. Bush promised as a candidate."

Hello, Republican base: Listen to your leaders. Vote Obama.