Welcome back from the Dark Side, Mr. Gilchrest.
Rep. Wayne Gilchrest, a maverick Republican from Maryland, endorsed Illinois Democratic Sen. Barack Obama for president in an interview Wednesday with WYPR, Baltimore’s National Public Radio station.
Gilchrest, who lost a primary campaign and is retiring from Congress, has already endorsed the Democrat running for his seat, Frank Kratovil. Justifying his endorsement of Obama, Gilchrest said that “we can’t use four more years of the same kind of policy that’s somewhat haphazard, which leads to recklessness.”
Obama and his running mate, Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.), “have the breadth of experience. I think they’re prudent. They’re knowledgable.”
The water’s warm. I hope more will follow.
Isn’t calling someone a maverick the kiss of death these days?
Politically, Gilchrest is already dead.
said on NPR this morning he was supporting Obama. This former editor of National Review ia also on board:
http://www.dmagazine.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?nm=Core+Pages&type=gen&mod=Core+Pages&tier=3&
;gid=B33A5C6E2CF04C9596A3EF81822D9F8E
Obama is simply a much better establishment figure than McCain.
Unless you’re a Rothschild.
and really cannot imagine what it could be; Rothschild at first favored Hillary because she “would be very good for the economy.” The same cannot be said for McCain. Just the opposite, really.
Obama will not be a good DLC champion. And his ovaries are underdeveloped.
by Bush & Rove, will champion the DLC, and is not “elitist” by any stretch of the imagination. Wow. Talk about addled reasoning working against self-interest.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/16/conservatives-turn-on-mcc_n_126749.html
McCain should clean up in Vermont.
I hope that impulse spreads rapidly, and suspect it will as folks internalize the reality of the economic abyss.