Gregory is a Republican running for Congress from Connecticut’s 4th District and a former worker for John McCain. Yet he acknowledged being swept up by Barack Obama and his promise of change in the 2008 campaign.
“I am one of the people who, during the 2008 Presidential election cycle felt truly moved and inspired by Barack Obama,” Gregory writes in an email. “I felt as though this guy really knew where I was coming from and would help unite our country after 8 years of bitter partisanship and get us back on track (and I say this as someone who worked on the McCain campaign).
But that was then. “Obama’s policies…proved to fall far short of his rhetoric of ‘change you can believe in.’ Now that the President has seen his poll numbers crash down to earth and political capital evaporate, he is repeating the mantra that led to his sweeping victory in November of 2008. While I would love more than anything to believe his message again, I simply cannot.”