Kids of iconic Republicans may vote Dem in '08

SuzannePjam
SuzannePjam Posts: 411
edited May 2007 in A Moving Train
Looks like W. is driving everyone away.

Generational Tensions

The sons and daughters of some iconic Republicans (Ike! T.R.!) are contemplating crossing the aisle.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18507722/site/newsweek/

Excerpt:
Susan Eisenhower is an accomplished professional, the president of an international consulting firm. She also happens to be Ike's granddaughter—and in that role, she's the humble torchbearer for moderate "Eisenhower Republicans." Increasingly, however, she says that the partisanship and free spending of the Bush presidency—and the takeover of the party by single-issue voters, especially pro-lifers—is driving these pragmatic, fiscally conservative voters out of the GOP. Eisenhower says she could vote Democratic in 2008, but she's still intent on saving her party. "I made a pact with a number of people," she tells NEWSWEEK. "I said, 'Please don't leave the party without calling me first.' For a while, there weren't too many calls. And then suddenly, there was a flurry of them. I found myself watching them slip away one by one."
"Where there is sacrifice there is someone collecting the sacrificial offerings."-- Ayn Rand

"Some of my friends sit around every evening and they worry about the times ahead,
But everybody else is overwhelmed by indifference and the promise of an early bed..."-- Elvis Costello
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Comments

  • floyd1975
    floyd1975 Posts: 1,350
    This would be an issue if the Democrats could actually put someone up who has the ability to take some of these votes away. I don't really think they will but I've been wrong once or twice before.
  • monkey spanker
    monkey spanker Posts: 283
    bush is definitely polarizing, at least the media has made it that way. many conservatives don't care for him either. but he's not running, and hillary is. how many people does she drive away????

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