Reply #5: I hope your are right [View All]

[Andy823]

I was once one of those who used the fact republicans were voting for him against him. I heard republicans saying that they were voting for him because he was the one they could beat. I don't buy that anymore. I now believe the republicans were saying this kind of stuff, about him being the easiest to beat, in order to push dems to vote for Hillary. I have talked with repbulcians that I believe to be honest who are looking hard at Obama, and some have already decided they would vote for him over McCain. My father is an ex-military man who, for the first time, did not vote at all in the primaries. He always votes republican. What he said was that he could "NOT" bring himself to vote for "any" of the republicans. He is fed up with all the crap that has been going on since Bush took office. At first he defended Bush, but in the last year that has changed. He actually told me a few weeks ago, before Florida, that "maybe" Obama wouldn't be to bad! That was a real shock to me.

I have also seen many other republicans who accept that McCain will be the nominee on their side, who have now come out and said they would be voting for Obama over McCain. Others will not go as far as to vote for a dem, but have said they have no intention of voting, and will stay home, "UNLESS" Hillary wins the nomination, then they said it didn't much matter how much they disliked McCain, they would vote "against" Hillary.

Now before the Hillary camp tries to paint me as a Obama supporter, I would like to point out that I was for Edwards from first day he announced he would run. I have not been supporting any of the two candidates so far, and still would like to hear more from Obama on the issues, though he has been doing much better the last few weeks talking about things that Edwards brought to the front, and I do like that. To be fair Hillary has addeed a lot of Edwards stuff also, but I just can't seem to jump on the Clinton bandwagon. I strongly disagree with NAFTA, outsourcing, and have a bad feeling about more jobs being outsourced if Hillary ever did become president, and more of those "free trade" agreements being pushed that really do "not" benefit anyone but corporate america.