My sainted mother is rolling in her grave as I type these words: The Republican Party has lost my vote this time out.

I don't know if I even know how to locate the buttons on the ballot for voting Democratic. Or if the voting machine will explode when I push the button for Obama and the donkeys. I guess we'll find out.

Seeing Obama and McCain together is like looking at a vigorous and visionary black John Kennedy standing next to Perry Como. Sorry Mom.

Jack
Bowie, MD

I am a Republican and there is NO WAY that I would vote for Obama! He is too liberal, he has NO experience and he says the same thing over and over again in his speeches. I don't want someone in the office of President who has had so little experience. He also says he will unite the people in America. Has he been a uniter in the U.S. Senate? There is NO evidence of that. John McCain has gotten himself into trouble with his base in the Republican party by trying to unite with the Democrats to try to solve big problems(such as immigration reform and corruption in financing elections.)
He may not have been absolutely right in everything he did but at least he tried and was some what successful in what he did. The gang of fourteen is another good example. His participation in it got us two conservitive justices on the Supreme Court. Very good result. What has Obama done to solve BIG problems? He sticks with his liberal friends. Definitely not bipartisan. His sweet speeehes are merely to get himself elected. If he becomes President he will go back to being his very liberal self. I guess for some that would be ok. But for me I don't want a very liberal president with very little experience in a time when there are a lot of people who hate Americans and are willing to blow up parts of New York and Washington DC to prove their point.

I will take Bush's occasional troubles with speech over Obama's womb to the grave socialism any day. Not to mention how favorable Bush is to the wife if an impeached, disbarred, adultery committing perjurer.

NO. Obama is not winning over any real republican. Period.

JFK was not a visionary.

You ever hear of the Bay of Pigs? He won a Pulitzer for a book he didn't write. He started off big in DC off his daddy's money. He won the 1960 election partly because he prepared well for tv debate, while Nixon wasn't used to tv debates.

On the list of best Presidents, JFK is way, way down the list.

My dog has done more politically than Obama. His biggest accomplishment? Winning his seat in Washington, D.C. and that's it.

Charisma? That doesn't matter when dealing with terrorists. Said same thing about Bill Clinton. Let's see 9/11 happens 9 months after he leaves the Presidency. Maybe if Clinton had better security policies, there's 1000s of New Yorkers still alive.

Who are these phantom Republicans you quote as having been polled. My entire family is Republican, and not one of us would vote for Obama. We are not drinking that kool-aid.

I've voted republican in the past. I had to vote Obama, republicans are too hypocritical. High deficits and low morals.

Because of the Bush administration, I'm embarrassed to be called a Republican! This President, and his administration, have broken far more laws than the Clinton administration. He should be impeached! I have much respect for John McCain but he is too much like Bush and too old! Yes, I'll vote for Obama ... and for change!

OBAMA IS claming he has a new plan for pulling the troops out of IRAQ. Check first on what the generals say. He must be copying PRESIDENT bushe,s speechs. Where are the changes he keeps talking about?

I am disapointed in Republicans voting for Obama. How can a real American vote for a man who refuses to put his hand over his heart wile the Star Spangled Banner is sung? Is this a red flag or a white one? Huckabee is by far the best choise, he is at least for our Constitution and will gain us new respect from the rest of the world. There is only one name under heaven whereby a man can be saved,so why are we saying "give us barabus"? Have we forgoten that we are one nation under GOD? Huckabee serves this same God, which God does Obama serve?

The Soring Eagle

It's amazing how long the media has refrained from the slightest critique of Obama; his platform consists of nothing but hot air. Whenever I hear 'change', I visualize going back to the administration of another man who smiled and smiled, and yet turned out to be a one-man disaster for this country. And who is Obama's mentor and advisor? A recycled failure of a policy wonk from those days, none other than the founder of the Trilateral Commission, Professor Zbigniew 'One World' Brzezinski. Canadians, watch out, resistance is futile. Now will some journalist out there please do his/her job?

Obama's bubble will burst, mark my words!! His "saying nothing" during his speeches will catch up to him. Once the majority of the people realize what he stands for (very, very liberal policies), they will conclude he is a weak presidential candidate. Once the press starts hitting him with hard questions, he will fold like an accordian (it has already begun, just stay tuned). McCain is not the ideal GOP candidate, but if he reaches out to the base, he should do fine. Obama is not the next JFK. He is more like the next Castro. How about his wife, what a piece of work she is? Nice anti-American comments!! Kind of gives one an insight to the elitist mentality of the Obama household doesn't it?

Immigration, the Israel lobby, NAFTA and outsourcing. McCain is worse on all of these than Obama and has overt contempt for conservatives who put these things at the top of the list. I haven't voted donkey in 30 years. If I can't vote for Ron Paul I'd vote for Obama over McCain.

No matter who wins this election, the liberals win. McCain is a RINO, and Clinton and Obama are about as liberal as you can get and still be from the same planet.

As one of the original Reagan Democrats whose first Republican vote was for Ronald Reagan, I remember JFK and why I liked him so much. From JFK's first inaugural speech: "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty." From Obama's speech when JFK's daughter endorsed him: "And when I am President, I will immediately begin to remove our troops ..." Obama may be an accomplished speaker like JFK, but he's no Jack Kennedy. President Kennedy must be rolling over in his grave as he watches today's "cut and run" Democrats.

What happens between now and November will flush out Obama's real answers. The key issues are the economy, energy, immigration and national security/foreign policy. McCain seems to be up two on the economy and national security/foreign policy with Republicans if he is looking at reducing spending (he has a good record on earmarks for integrity). With regard to national security/foreign policy, no Republican is going to vote for someone whose first Commander in Chief order is to surrender and then retake the same ground again (history will tell us that's just plain stupid). Also with Chavez acting up in South America, linked to Iran looking nuclear in the Middle East linked to a new administration in Cuba, the country needs a proactive Commander in Chief, NOT reactive and legally excuse bound to the U.N. paradigm. If McCain pushes for enforcing existing laws on immigration, he can hold Republicans in that area. Both need to come up with an interim solution and a transition to permanent solution for energy because it can act as trigger event on economic stability and national security(bad news at the polls). Biofuels are like the stimulus package, an election year band aid and will eventually impact U.S. Humanitarian efforts and economy through destabilizing the food chain to free market model.

Vote Republican. Its easier than thinking.

Just thought I should point out, the type of Republican who votes for Obama for the most part probably does not read the Times (or at least not the Washington Times).

Vote Democrat, and look at all the new great "changes" in the country. Wow, my boxers feel better.

JFK wasn't a hero. He just got assassinated and people now look at him as a hero. Lincoln-hero? A definite yes. JFK? No, just a womanizer who gained all his power off his looks, great family connections, no decent opponent going against him, and he's the one kept us in Vietnam. Don't give me that Hollywood junk.

Man of the people? That's Andrew Jackson and not JFK.

If Obama gets the nod from the American people to be the next president. He'll wake up upon his first morning briefing when someone says,
" Mr. President, now that you are President, there are some things you need to know."

Feel good speeches do not a policy make.

And the American public will be witness to political backpedaling of the likes never before seen , nor likely to be witnessed in such extemis anytime this century.

Hey, thanks to the filthy RINOs running the RNC there is no Republican party anymore. All that's left is LEFTIST democrats and LEFTIST Lite republicans.

Those of you thinking you're helping by voting Lib-lite have at it. I'm from Arizona and John McCain has thanked me for my votes by destroying my life. I'll be damned if McCain or any other lib-maggot will ever get my vote again.

No sense tearing this bandage off painfully slow, since we are heading to the same pain with a republican as a democrat, I leave the choice of slow or fast up to the rest of you.

As hard as it is for me to believe, you see, I've always voted, I will not be voting this time around.