Actually, Blofeld was the head of S.P.E.C.T.R.E. and not a member of Smersh...just sayin'...

Well, Ernst did a lot of recruiting from SMERSH, e.g., Rosa Klebb.

(Points for--what famous American version of what song mentions the wife of the man who wrote the song...no peeking at Wiki!!)

Actually, Blofeld was the head of S.P.E.C.T.R.E. and not a member of Smersh...just sayin'...

How can anyone be expected to keep track of all the evil organizations that Obama is associated with? He is tied up with KAOS as well. And it is well known he spent time in the phantom zone. Kal-El? Another lie...

>Nice catch, its a little embarrassing considering the number of Bond first editions I have... guess I need to reread them

In the case of Adelman this has not been true for many years, same with Powell.
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The one conservative on that list has only voiced disagreement with McCain, not an endorsement of Obama.

McCain is not, after all, a conservative, so it should not surprise anyone that he would lose some conservative support.

No conservative, moral or fiscal, would EVER endorse Obama by simple definition.

Which of those on your list actually endorsed Obama, even if we pretend that they are all Conservatives?

I could not endorse McCain myself,.... but, to endorse Obama, I would have to betray every moral & fiscal principle held by every decent American for the last 230 years.

BTW; did you really have to leave country to compile half your list?

Obama "palling around" with SMERSH member Ernst Blofeld.

Actually, Blofeld was the head of S.P.E.C.T.R.E. and not a member of Smersh...just sayin'...

How is the comparison boneheaded?

Somehow even asking that shows that you just don't get it. People who know their history and are serious about it simply do not make offhand comparisons like that. It's inappropriate on its face. And if you can't (or won't) see that, then you are simply not getting it.

George Bush is not Hitler. Obama is not Stalin. We are not the USSR in the twentieth century.

I know at least one PUMA (maybe the last remaining PUMA) who's voting for McCain and hoping he doesn't mean it about abortion. According to her, he'd never overturn Roe because it's been such a money-maker for the GOP. Um, okay.

To be fair I have heard similar arguments on websites before but it was about votes not money. The basic idea being that without Roe V Wade, the GOP would lose a lot of Catholic votes if abortion was a non-issue because of Catholic social values such as poverty.

Is it just because the comparison makes you uncomfortable?

That could be it. The stupidity of the comparison is making him uncomfortable...

This just in... Obama "palling around" with SMERSH member Ernst Blofeld.

Actually, anyone who would seriously make a boneheaded comparison like you did is the one who needs remedial schooling. With comments like that, you really show that you're nothing more than a dilettante.

How is the comparison boneheaded?
PLease elaborate. Is it just because the comparison makes you uncomfortable?

Plus, this is just a weird election where I don't think all of the normal ideological categories apply. This is, if anything, Bush's legacy.

Clearly, everything is George Bush's fault. Imagine if George Bush, or anyone for that matter, could do 10% of what he is supposed to be able to do.

But one has to ask, Frum, Douthat, Brooks, Sullivan, Will, Noonan, Gergen, Adelman.... These are all intelligent conservatives (oops, my bad, intelligent=intelligentsia... that is a smear reserved for liberals)(and it is more than a dozen or 2)

At one point the GOP said it had a "big tent", but the tent is getting pretty empty right now. Even JJ has been accused of being a traitor for holding to the ideals he holds so dear, ideals which once fit within that big tent.

As one who holds to a "center/left" point of veiw, I too worry about an unchecked democratic party... But the GOP has become a caricature of itself and not even close to a check on the Democrats.

They deserve to be sent to the wilderness, and I hope there are enough true conservatives to send them there, just as I helped send the Dem's there in 2002. I want a viable alternative in 2010... but I don't expect it.

They are yet too blind to what they have become.

Shouldn't the spin be that every republican endorsement of Obama, merely adds credence to McCain's claim to Maverick status??

Only if your new definition of Maverick is "Someone nobody agrees with".