Ref at
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/06/MN3T11JI0P.DTL&type=politics
The "Obamacans" that Sen. Barack Obama used to joke about - Republican
apostates who whispered their sup****t for his candidacy - have morphed
into
a new phenomenon, or syndrome, as detractors like to call it: the
Obamacons.
These are conservatives who have publicly endorsed the presumptive
Democratic
nominee, dissidents from the brain trust of think tanks, ex-officials
and
policy magazines that have fueled the Republican Party since the 1960s.
Scratch
the surface of this elite, and one finds a profound dismay that is far
more
damaging to the GOP than the usual 10 percent of registered Republicans
expected
to switch sides during a presidential election.
...
interesting read...
RT