Top Republicans for Obama Release New Book Turning Red States Blue

[The Straight Story]

Top Republicans for Obama Release New Book Turning Red States Blue

/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Two top Republican businessmen and party fundraisers are throwing their brainpower, their intimate understanding of Republican core values and their money behind getting Senator Barack Obama elected as U.S. President. Authors Wilbur O. Colom and James W. Parkinson have teamed up to write a new 104-page book that makes a fiscal and social argument on why conservatives should vote for Obama. Their book, Turning Red States Blue: Obama's Mission to Win the Republican Vote (Genesis Press), is being released this week and can be found online at ObamaRepublicans08.com. The book costs $19.95.

To make sure the message of their book reaches their audience, the authors are launching a marketing campaign aimed at Republican districts in rural areas inMississippi,Ohio,Pennsylvania,Indiana andAlabama, where white voters predominate. To kick off this effort, the entire book is being published in 25 hometown weekly papers in northeasternMississippi, including Choctaw Chronicle and Belmont & Tishomingo Journal, as a "Parade-style" insert.

The authors emphasize that the key to an Obama victory resides outside the large urban areas. "Small town America is hurting and crying out for change," said Colom, president of Genesis Press which is publishing the book. "For years conservative voters have been distracted with wedge issues like gay marriage and abortion, while their jobs are being exported away, killing the local economy."

In the book's introduction, the authors write, "The single most important reason we support Barack Obama is that he has emerged as a leader who can cast aside labels and focus on solutions rather than on partisan verbal assaults." In another passage they write, "Sen. Obama understands that the 'smallness' of politics and making 'cheap political points' stops elected leaders inWashington from rolling up our sleeves and building a working consensus."

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[Mme. Defarge]

1. Excellent news - K&R! n/t

[TornadoTN]

2. I'm interested in this book - I would like to read it and buy a few for distribution

I know many people who could benefit from something like this.

[nykym]

3. Hey why not borrow thier idea

Get some well respected eloquent speaking conservative to record the book and make an audio CD to distribute nation wide in daily newspapers free for all to hear.