Weld For Obama

Published Oct 24 2008, 09:31 AM by David S. Bernstein

Republican former Massachusetts Governor William Weld is endorsing Barack Obama, the Associated Press reports.

Weld released a statement calling Obama "the best candidate to move our country forward," and will announce the endorsement publicly later this morning in Salem, New Hampshire.

Weld has long been an advocate for "big-tent" Republican inclusion, to include supporters of gay rights, abortion rights, and other socially moderate positions. Nevertheless, he was an early and avid endorser of Mitt Romney for the Republican nomination, perhaps not appreciating how far to the right Romney was veering on those issues.

Weld himself tacked rightward during his run for New York governor -- a campaign he eventually abandoned after running into a scandal over Decker College, but more importantly after facing steady, unrelenting opposition from conservatives in the state party.

His endorsement of Obama is one more sign that the GOP is pushing its moderates out of the party.

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jeffery mcnary said:

veritas! it's a harvard thing:-)!

October 24, 2008 10:37 AM
pemetic said:

I guess susan collins didn't get the memo for moderates to leave the party and mccain! no will she ever get it. time for all obama supporters to vote for tom allen. right now there are thousands of you who think collins will work for you. wake up!

her buddies in the senate are mccain and leiberman.

they will be the raodblock to nowhere if obama wins.if you live in southern maine it's even easier to vote for allen. collins represents northern maine not the portland area. in fact name the last senator from southern maine? right i couldn't either. it was at least 50 years ago.

also we tend to keep electing senators for life. the last reelected senator to lose was smith back in 1972 - after over 30 years in the senate! do you want collins to be your senator for life? i know i don't.

October 25, 2008 7:12 AM

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