Friday, August 29, 2008

Sportsmen for Obama?

A “Lifelong Republican” Tony Dean isn’t. Chad Baus must have watched BO’s speech last night (I didn’t). He says in an e-mail, “Obama just mentioned gun owners in Ohio in his "big speech", so he's obviously got us on the brain.” He knows Ohio is a key state--I think he was planning a visit to Toledo this week. According to Chad, Dean was mentioned a few years ago as a possible Democratic candidate for Congress and has supported anti-gun Democrats in the past according to this source
    “For Tony Dean to have "switch[ed] parties to head a Sportsmen for Obama group" he would have to have done so at least two years before Obama was even elected to Senate, and five years prior to when he announced his presidential bid. Indeed, it appears the word "lifelong" is as difficult for Dean and the Obama campaign to define as the word "is" is to Bill Clinton.

    Dean is quoted by the Dallas News as saying he's "99 percent sure a President Obama isn't going to infringe on gun rights." But seeing as Mr. Dean - who one blogger has dubbed 'South Dakota's Al Gore' because of his fervent belief in human-caused global warming - describes himself as a "moderate on the gun issue" who "opposes the NRA on most gun issues," his assurances about Obama aren't likely to be much consolation to pro-gun voters.

    On his website, Dean has castigated the NRA for having "done little to protect gun ownership" and for having differing views on conservation issues, even while posting op-eds from the likes of Humane Society of the United States Executive Director Wayne Pacelle, who has been quoted as saying "we are going to use the ballot box and the democratic process to stop all hunting in the United States...We will take it species by species until all hunting is stopped in California. Then we will take it state by state."“
A politician who lies about his core beliefs, friends and associates? This is change and hope? I could call myself a life-long Democrat, as long as I don’t count the last 8 years, or the 4 years before that when I couldn’t find a single Democrat to support for any office local or national, or the 4 years before that when I was waking up after voting for Clinton. Surely, even life-long Democrats who have worked their buns to the bones for this empty suit Obama must be getting tired of this “change” mantra.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

We hear from these phonies every election cycle. Always a "lifelong republican" who has "seen the light" as is now voting for the Democrat opponent and/or switching parties. 98 percent of the time these "lifelong republicans" turn out to nothing of the sort.

The Obama campaign has been going into overdrive the past few months getting their supporters to masquerade as "lifelong republicans". Apparently its become a centerpiece of their campaign strategy.

Aside from fooling their fellow Democrats (they all swoon over these phony republicans) what are they trying to accomplish? Do they actually think that people are going to vote for the Democrat candidate because someone who claims to be a lifelong republican says he is going to as well?

Its kind of fun to do a little research on these "lifelong republicans" and find out what a bunch of phonies they are.

Here is another example:

"Fahey, a lifelong Republican who is now an ardent Obama supporter"

http://www.vnews.com/08242008/5019017.htm

Yet here is an article from 2000 which describes this "lifelong republican" then as an "independent":

http://www.sptimes.com/News/013100/Worldandnation/In_NH__candidates_wit.shtml

"In Lebanon, independent voter Frank Fahey..."

Anonymous said...

"98 percent of the time these "lifelong republicans" turn out to nothing of the sort."

Whoops.

98 percent of the time these "lifelong republicans" turn out to be nothing of the sort.

Fixed.