'Republicans for Obama' launch search for converts

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Several prominent Republicans on Tuesday unveiled an effort to convert GOP voters into backers of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, saying only he would be able to return America to the right course in the world and break from eight years of disastrous policies from President Bush.

"A very large number of us feel deeply that John McCain -- good a man as he is -- will be a continuation of Bush," said Rita Hauser, a prominent fundraiser for Bush's 2000 campaign who served on a White House intelligence advisory board after 9/11. "It's hard to walk away from your party's nominee, but you have to put your country first."

Hauser was joined by former Rep. Jim Leach (R-IA) and former Sen. Lincoln Chafee, who left the Republican party earlier this year to vote for Obama in Rhode Island's pimary, on a conference call sponsored by the campaign Tuesday. The "Obamacans" said McCain, the GOP nominee, would continue the bellicose bullying that's become a hallmark of Bush and Vice President Cheney's interactions with the rest of the world.

"It is not traditional Republicanism to make war on anyone who disagrees with you," said Hauser, who endorsed Democrat John Kerry in 2004 because of her opposition to the Iraq war.

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