More Repubs Fleeing McShame

William F. Buckley's son writes, "Obama has in him—I think, despite his sometimes airy-fairy “We are the people we have been waiting for” silly rhetoric—the potential to be a good, perhaps even great leader. He is, it seems clear enough, what the historical moment seems to be calling for.

So, I wish him all the best. We are all in this together. Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship. And so, for the first time in my life, I’ll be pulling the Democratic lever in November. As the saying goes, God save the United States of America."

Entire article here.

It should be noted that Buckley posted his endorsement on the Daily Beast, not the National Review because he doesn't have the stomach for a tide of hatred and vitriol such as that seen against Kathleen Parker for calling out SlickS as a disaster for the republican party.

Former Republican governor William Milliken of Michigan says that McShame isn't the man he previously endorsed and calls him out for his negative smear tactics.

"He is not the McCain I endorsed," said Milliken, reached at his Traverse City home Thursday. "He keeps saying, 'Who is Barack Obama?' I would ask the question, 'Who is John McCain?' because his campaign has become rather disappointing to me.

"I'm disappointed in the tenor and the personal attacks on the part of the McCain campaign, when he ought to be talking about the issues."

Article here.

I'm envisioning rats from a sinking ship.

UPDATE

Veteran Republican Congressman Ray LaHood criticized his party's vice presidential nominee Friday, saying that Sarah Palin's vitriolic campaign rallies ""don't befit the office she's running for." Story here.