Tricky Barack

By Kleinheider Posted on July 9, 2008 at 6:46 am

DaveG compares the tactics of Richard Nixon and Barack Obama:

Barack Obama seems to be moving more towards Clinton Vichy Democrat status every day when it comes to his policies, but has always relied on universe expansion to bring in the votes. Just as Nixon hoped to solidify the swingin’ Midwest by adding the region’s disenchanted blue collar Catholic Democrats to the GOP voter pool, Obama hopes to secure states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Ohio by turning the region’s former white collar Ford Republicans into Obamacans. And just as Nixon was bold enough to play offense against the Democrats in what was once their base region — the Old South — by appealing to long-neglected Southern religious folks, Obama is hitting Republicans where it hurts in the Mountain West by appealing to libertarian-leaning Republicans who have little in common with a big-government, big-religion, big-war GOP. Nixon won in 1968 on the backs of former Democrats who gave the finger to a culturally libertine, unpatriotic Democratic Party. If Obama wins in 2008, it will be because of former Republicans who cannot abide a GOP that is bathed in religion and that spends like drunken sailors.

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