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Yet another leading conservative has bailed out of the McCain camp.

Sorry, Dad, I'm Voting for Obama
by Christopher Buckley

The son of William F. Buckley has decided�shock!�to vote for a Democrat.
Let me be the latest conservative/libertarian/whatever to leap onto the Barack Obama bandwagon. It�s a good thing my dear old mum and pup are no longer alive. They�d cut off my allowance...

My colleague, the superb and very dishy Kathleen Parker, recently wrote in National Review Online a column stating what John Cleese as Basil Fawlty would call �the bleeding obvious�: namely, that Sarah Palin is an embarrassment, and a dangerous one at that. She�s not exactly alone. New York Times columnist David Brooks, who began his career at NR, just called Governor Palin �a cancer on the Republican Party.�

As for Kathleen, she has to date received 12,000 (quite literally) foam-at-the-mouth hate-emails. One correspondent, if that�s quite the right word, suggested that Kathleen�s mother should have aborted her and tossed the fetus into a Dumpster. There�s Socratic dialogue for you. Dear Pup once said to me sighfully after a right-winger who fancied himself a WFB prot�g� had said something transcendently and provocatively cretinous, �You know, I�ve spent my entire life time separating the Right from the kooks.� Well, the dear man did his best. At any rate, I don�t have the kidney at the moment for 12,000 emails saying how good it is he�s no longer alive to see his Judas of a son endorse for the presidency a covert Muslim who pals around with the Weather Underground. So, you�re reading it here first.


http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-10/the-conservative-case-for-obama

It's beginning to look as if Obama can either reclaim or replace the Reagan Democrats with Obama Republicans and form a new governing coalition, leaving the evangelical Christian Right pretty much all to its lonesome over there on the Right.

It's a little too early to tell for sure, of course, but things seem to be shaping up that way. If Obama governs with a fiscally conservative bent, which he is going to have to do given the circumstances, he may be able to divide the Republicans and build a lasting coalition.