A Google for Saxby

2008-11-16T18:45:00.000-08:00

2008-10-29T06:45:00.000-07:00

There's been a lot of press about GOP/Conservative support for Obama, but with the recent flurry of GOP for Obama love, most lists of Republican supporters are outdated, and none seem to provide links to the relevant news stories. So without further ado:

REPUBLICANS FOR OBAMA

Government Officials:
Colin Powell, General, Secretary of State, National Security Adviser, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

"Obama displayed a steadiness, an intellectual curiosity, a depth of knowledge. He has met the standard of being a successful president, being an exceptional president."

Scott McLellan, Bush Press Secretary

"From the very beginning I've said I would support the candidate who has the best chance of changing the way Washington works and getting things done. I'll be voting for Barack Obama."

Ken Duberstein, Reagan Chief of Staff

"Colin Powell's decision is in fact the good housekeeping seal of approval on Barack Obama."

Larry Hunter, Contract with America Author, Economist for Reagan & Dole

"His economic advisers . . . recognize that ordinary citizens stand to gain more from open markets than from government meddling."

Ken Adelman, Reagan Adviser and Assistant Secretary of Defense

"Why so, since my views align a lot more with McCain's than with Obama's?. . . Primarily for two reasons, those of temperament and of judgment."

Charles Fried, Reagan Solicitor General and McCain Adviser

Doug Kmiec, Head of the Office of Legal Council under Reagan & H.W. Bush

"A person of integrity, intelligence, and genuine good will"

Jeffrey Hart, Nixon and Reagan Speechwriter

"The Democrat, under certain conditions, can be the conservative."

Francis Fukuyama, Reagan Adviser

"Obama probably has the greatest promise of delivering a different kind of politics."

Rita Hauser, Bush Intelligence Adviser

"John McCain, good man that he is, will be a continuation of Bush" and "that is something that we are strongly opposed to."

Bill Ruckelshaus, Reagan's EPA Director & Nixon's Deputy Attorney General

"Obama's New Energy for America Plan will invest $150 billion over the next 10 years to encourage private efforts to develop clean energy technologies in a clean energy future. . . I'm not against McCain, I'm for Obama."

William Donaldson and David Ruder, Chairmen of the Securities and Exchange Commission under Bush and Reagan, respectively

"We believe Senator Obama can provide the positive leadership and judgment needed to take us to a stronger and more secure economic future."

Governors:
William Weld, Massachusetts

"Senator Obama is a once-in-a-lifetime candidate who will transform our politics and restore America's standing in the world."

Arne Carlson, Minnesota

"A remarkably disciplined and focused leader who has the potential to become a truly great president."

Linwood Holton, Virginia

"Obama has a brain, and he isn't afraid to use it."

Senators:
Larry Pressler, South Dakota

"I just got the feeling that Obama will be able to handle this financial crisis better, and I like his financial team of Rubin and Volcker better. [McCain's] handling of the financial crisis made me feel nervous."

Lincoln Chafee, Rhode Island

"Senator Obama is the best candidate to restore American credibility, to restore our confidence to be moral and to bring people together to solve the complex issues such as the economy, the environment and global stability."

Lowell Weicker, Connecticut

"[Obama] has the smarts, quite frankly, to do a damn good job."

U.S. Representatives:
Jim Leach, Iowa

''For me, the national interest comes before party concerns, particularly internationally. We do need a new direction in American policy, and Obama has a sense of that."

Wayne Gilchrest, Maryland

"[Obama and Biden] have the breadth of experience. I think they're prudent. They're knowledgeable."

Mayors

Richard Riordan, Los Angeles

"I'm still a Republican, but I still will always vote for the person who I think will do the best job."

Jim Whitaker, Fairbanks

"If we are as a nation concerned with energy, then our consideration should be a national energy policy that is not predicated on crude oil 50 years into the future. We need to get to it, and I think Barack Obama is very clear in that regard."

Commentators:
Wick Allison, Publisher of the Conservative National Review

"I now see that Obama is almost the ideal candidate for this moment in American history. I disagree with him on many issues. But those don't matter as much as what Obama offers, which is a deeply conservative view of the world."

Andrew Sullivan, Columnist and Author of The Conservative Soul

"The Obama candidacy is about ending a war—not so much the war in Iraq . . . but the war within America that has prevailed since Vietnam and that shows dangerous signs of intensifying, a nonviolent civil war that has crippled America at the very time the world needs it most. It is a war about war—and about culture and about religion and about race. And in that war, Obama—and Obama alone—offers the possibility of a truce."

Michael Smerconish, Columnist and Talk Radio Host

"Barack Obama is correct in saying the front line in that battle is not Iraq, it's the Afghan-Pakistan border. Osama bin Laden crossed that border from Tora Bora in December 2001, and we stopped pursuit."

Christopher Buckley, Columnist and son of William F. Buckley

"I have known John McCain personally since 1982. I wrote a well-received speech for him. . . This campaign has changed John McCain. It has made him inauthentic."

David Friedman, Economist and son of Milton Friedman

"I do not think he is going to turn out to be an orthodox liberal. . . [He is] trying to construct a new version of what 'left' means."

Susan Eisenhower, Granddaughter of President Eisenhower & President of the Eisenhower Group

"Obama can assure the world and Americans that this great nation's impulses are still free, open, fair and broad-minded."

Links:

http://www.republicansforobama.org/

http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/gophome

Anyone I'm missing?