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Eisenhower is one of a small but symbolically powerful group of what Obama
recently called "Obamacans"–disaffected Republicans who have drifted
away from their party just as Eisenhower Democrats did and, more recently,
Reagan Democrats in the 1980s. They include lifelong Republican Tricia Moseley,
a former staffer for the late Sen. Strom Thurmond, the one-time segregationist
from South Carolina. Now a high-school teacher, Moseley says she was attracted
to Obama’s positions on education and the economy.Former GOP congressman Joe Scarborough, who anchors MSNBC’s "Morning
Joe," says many conservative friends–including Bush officials and evangelical
Christians–sent him enthusiastic e-mails after seeing Obama’s post-election
speeches in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. "He doesn’t attack
Republicans, he doesn’t attack whites and he never seems to draw these dividing
lines that Bill Clinton [does]," Scarborough told NEWSWEEK. … ..
Oh no.
Obamacans.
There’s a punch line in here somewhere. I’m just not sure exactly where.
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