“Obamacans”? Oooooooookay.

I saw this story last night about “Obamacans” and nearly wrote a bit on it, but I decided to wait until morning and I’m glad I did.

Obamacans, by the way, are those little ceramic dishes in which you make crème brûlée, or those little egg custard desserts…no…wait. Those are ramekins. Obamacans are Republicans who are now ready and willing to pull the voting level for the Obamessiah. Apparently, they exist in such massive numbers (up to almost 9 percent in Wisconsin) that it’s worth the article. Of course, what the article doesn’t say is that it’s altogether likely that Republicans were crossing over in those primaries not because they really liked Obama but because the Republican primary has pretty much been a done deal since Mitt left the race and plenty of Republicans were eager to cast a vote against Hillary Clinton. But, the guy who wrote this article managed to find a couple working for the O-Man and conflated them into a whole national movement (there is a Republicans for Obama group or some such, but I bet you could get all the members around the country into the average Starbucks).

Really, if you want the best takedown of the Obamacans’ goofiness, at least as represented by the hapless boob featured in this article, you don’t have to look any further than this paragraph:

By then, Pedaline had soured on Bush and the “conservative ideologues” he blamed for Washington’s gridlock, especially when it came to Social Security, an issue important to his parents.

Yep, because that mean George Bush was all about stopping Social Security reform, wasn’t he? Except that he wasn’t. Except that he was actually the person pushing the hardest for Social Security reform. He even ran hard on it in 2004. And it was Congressional Demcorats who blocked any possibility of reform shortly thereafter.

You will not be surprised to know that he didnt’ pick Obama based on the issues but because of the warm fuzzies he got from his books and an enduring dream that one day we’ll all dance under a rainbow sky as one loving mush of Obama-fied humanity.

Blargh.

Karol Shenin also noticed the same article and decided to get a few digs in at how the guy uses his friends almost as a “please dont’ be mean to me” shield. Really, the dude needs to man up and stop being such a simp, but Karol makes that point pretty clearly, and much better than I.

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