Republicans for Obama?

This morning’s talk radio station in Knoxville featured an interview with the founder of a group called Republicans for Obama. They’ve got a website. Find it for yourself. I’d be embarrassed to link to it.

Republicans for Obama? That’s like Republicans for McCain. Neither represents the values of the Reagan Republicans who valiantly tried to overturn half a century of Democratic tax and spend policy.

Bush 41 never was the Reagan Republican he should have been. In fact, I believe he was fired after his one term because he wasn’t enough like Reagan. Most Americans wanted more Reagan and less of the Rockefeller Republicans that had dominated the GOP for all those years. GWB was elected primarily because the slim majority felt badly about firing his father.

The Republican Party has failed miserably in shrinking the government, reducing taxes and fulfilling the variety of other agenda items Reagan Republicans supported over the years. In an effort to become popular with the mainstream media, the Class of ’94 abandoned their Contract with American and sought, in the name of bi-partisanship, to get along with the Democrats. What happened is that the Democrats achieved their goals and the Republicans sacrificed everything. Thanks to this attitude of appeasement in the name of popularity, a la John McCain, the GOP allowed the nation to be maneuvered into this situation of fiscal disaster.

Republicans for Obama are mostly those who believe that things couldn’t get much worse. They take Obama’s words as solutions rather than looking at the solutions he proposes in the clear light of their effect on the population. Words like “unity,” “hope,” and “future” have lulled them into the belief that things will be wonderful with Obama in the White House, Pellosi in the House, and Harry Reid in the Senate. The reality of his ideas, tax hikes, redistribution of wealth and class envy won’t hold a candle to the emotional desire of RFOs that Americans should “come together.”

Here’s what will happen during an Obama presidency. Everybody, except those making less than $35,000 a year, will see their taxes go up. Prices will rise on every commodity as businesses pass on their higher taxes to consumers. Businesses will fold at an incredible rate as entrepreneurs fail to make payroll with increased minimum wage and tax requirements. The stock markets will plummet. The roles of the unemployed will skyrocket. Investments will come from overseas, increasing the control of American corporations by non-American entities. Open borders will insure the influx of more millions of under-educated aliens with no love for America. Welfare roles will soar, medical service providers will fold under the pressure to provide free services, and a general sense of despair will grip American citizens.

Obama wants to unite America. He will do so. We will all be united in our misery.