Posted on 07/16/2008 8:45:04 PM PDT by pissant
I'm a lifelong Republican - a supply-side conservative. I worked in the Reagan White House. I was the chief economist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for five years. In 1994, I helped write the Republican Contract with America. I served on Bob Dole's presidential campaign team and was chief economist for Jack Kemp's Empower America.
This November, I'm voting for Barack Obama.
When I first made this decision, many colleagues were shocked. How could I support a candidate with a domestic policy platform that's antithetical to almost everything I believe in?
The answer is simple: Unjustified war and unconstitutional abridgment of individual rights vs. ill-conceived tax and economic policies - this is the difference between venial and mortal sins.
Taxes, economic policy and health care reform matter, of course. But how we extract ourselves from the bloody boondoggle in Iraq, how we avoid getting into a war with Iran and how we preserve our individual rights while dealing with real foreign threats - these are of greater importance.
John McCain would continue the Bush administration's commitment to interventionism and constitutional overreach. Obama promises a humbler engagement with our allies, while promising retaliation against any enemy who dares attack us. That's what conservatism used to mean - and it's what George W. Bush promised as a candidate.
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LARRY HUNTER; tectrix treason?
I would not be surprised if this is lying about being a lifelong conservative activist? This may be his ploy to convince conservatives to vote Obama?
“This November, I’m voting for Barack Obama.”
God for you. Now STFU, drama queen.
Which abridgements are those, Larry? Not surprisingly, he gives no examples. Libs, when pressed for specifics, usually respond...."uh, uh, uh...GITMO!!!"
That's what I think of when a supposedly "intelligent" person tells us that the war or homeland security measures are "unconstitutional".
How did he miss that we have a rather liberal Supreme Court which has made no such determination, or that these wars and programs have been approved by liberal democrat congresses?
I’m not crazy about voting for McCain either but I will put my love of my country ahead of everything else. America can easily survive a McCain administration. If Obama is elected, America will be over. Larry might think he’s a “conservative” but he doesn’t sound like one to me.
Wow, you served on Bob Dole's campaign team? THAT's a resume enhancement!
Take your valuable expertise to the Obama camp!
A true conservative could never support Obama...unless he has been bought and paid for (and is thus no conservative at all, but a political whore), or unless he has drunk the kool-aid and morphed into a marxist useful idiot.
Any true consevative is having to hold back bile to vote for McCain in many ways, but may be able to do so to avoid the arsenic and cyanide that Obama represents.
Obama's vies on taxes, abortion, immigration, the 2nd amendment, marriage, moral values, the military, the war againsty islamic jihad, the economy, the environment, energy etc., etc. are all the anti-thesis of conservatism and will serve to destroy this nations way of life, it's propseriy, and its liberty.
In many areas McCain is just as bad...but on marriage, the 2nd amendment, taxes, energy, abortion (and the USSC as regards it), and the war on ISlamic Jihad represent differences enough for me to abjectly oppose Obama and his poison.
a Ron Paul supporter
He can join Cindy & Lew & Pat in Iran as a human shield.
Extremely OT, but RUSH is on Colbert right now. Doing Tom Sawyer.
Oops, forgot Ron and Dennis.
“John McCain would continue the Bush administration’s commitment to interventionism and constitutional overreach. “
And Obama would turn to as much Marxism as he could get away with.
They really want an all out socialist/communist vs. something less offensive?
Whatever.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
He should seek help.
I think the title should be changed to “I love Stalin and Mao and want to support someone like them.”
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
What a coincidence, I’m Bill Gates.
Pray for W and Our Troops
If the truth be known, he probably voted for McCain in the primary. I know somebody voted for McCain in the primary but very few are willing to admit it. I get a kick out of all the people on this forum who are going around shilling for McCain and telling people like me why I should vote for the RINO relic. But they do not acknowledge or admit that they voted for him in primary. I remember the Burger King commercial that was looking of Herb, supposedly the only guy in America who never ate a whopper. I am kind of looking for ANYONE who will admit voting for the old geezer in the primary. After I read this article, may be I found one.
When I first made this decision, many colleagues were shocked. How could I support a candidate with a domestic policy platform that's antithetical to almost everything I believe in?The answer is simple: Unjustified war and unconstitutional abridgment of individual rights vs. ill-conceived tax and economic policies - this is the difference between venial and mortal sins.
Taxes, economic policy and health care reform matter, of course.
So signing on for higher taxes designed to redistribute the wealth and fund a socialist agenda, one that will see US taxpayers funding foreign despots in the name of socialist "charity" (it is your "moral" obligation to fund the Left's religion, despite what the ACLU has been insisting in a "separation of church and state").
Obama is already onboard for wars, er "peace keeping" missions in Darfur and elsewhere.
How was the Iraq war "unjustified" when we were at war with Saddam's Iraq in the early 1990s and from the get go Saddam was violating the peace agreement reigniting the war? We are not at war against Iraq anymore, we fight alongside Iraqis and with the government, not against it. Was Afghanistan wrong? Obomber is supporting escalation of that war.
Where is the Constitution is Obama's plan for redistribution of wealth and controlling your thermostat and diet? Those rights don't count?
Enough of this idiotorial. Stick a fork in this useful idiot, he's done already. "Go Dole/Kemp". Yeah, that did wonders for us.
What is this guy smoking? I haven't heard Obama say anything about retaliation against anyone. I guess when you support an empty suit, you can fill it with anything you want.
This "experiment" is over.
You had me going there, at first I thought it might be THE Rush. But I guess he has a show to do tomorrow and doesn’t need to give Viacom’s comedy network news channel the ratings.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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“Obama promises a humbler engagement with our allies, while promising retaliation against any enemy who dares attack us.”
LOL! Exactly where and when has Obama ever expressed humility or behaved in any manner of humility? So, why should we entrust our lives, our liberty, and our sacred honor to Obama’s “humility”?
WTF is a Larry Hunter? And I’m supposed to be in awe that he worked for Dole and Kemp?
During the 90s I remember many Democrats switching to the Republican Party. I wonder how many of them worked on Truman’s campaign or worked on JFK’s tax cuts or with Brezhnev’s KGB? And I’m supposed to be impressed with “Larry Hunter”?
I seriously doubt this guy is a life-long conservative.
More than likely, much like McCain, he is another moderate/liberal who has held conservative positions on some issues but when one looks at the totality of their actions it is not too difficult to correctly label them moderate/libera.
I am CRAZY about “fat chicks”. Also crazy about G-d, guns, property rights, and killing people who want to harm my countrymen. Hey - at least I don’t smoke crack in limousines and I DARNED sure didn’t choose Harvard. (And I had the choice.) I think, on the whole, I’m quite sane. But someone’s got to stick up for women who look like women!
It’s real simple. This guy started out as a leftist, lived his life as a leftist, and is still a leftist. He merely decided to fake it for a few years or decades, with plans to run hard to the left in full public view at a time when the Marxist cause needed him most. The brilliant idea is he could convince a significant number of conservatives to imitate him.
So now he pulls the trigger, but the problem is that the logic behind his belief that others would follow him in running to the left is based on the premise that his opinion is worth more than two cents.
Of course, I don’t have hard evidence that this is the true scenario, but it makes a whole lot more sense than one in which a real conservative actually decides to vote for Obama. That just wouldn’t happen.
I thought that's what we're doing. 911, anyone?
I adore Glenn Miller, too.
” why Larry’s voting for B-HO “ Because Larry recently took up smoking a crack pipe. Nobama needs all the crack head votes he can get.
Bloody boondoggle? You sir were never really a conservative, or you would know this is approved fiction.
Preserve individual rights? Marxist Obama will confiscate your "individual rights" in short order. And, don't expect any favors. Marxists have very narrow spans of control. They trust no one. And, confederates are viewed as liabilities, not assets.
You'll see.
“Of course, I don’t have hard evidence that this is the true scenario, but it makes a whole lot more sense than one in which a real conservative actually decides to vote for Obama. That just wouldn’t happen.”
Perhaps, just perhaps, this guy really is a conservative and is talking about voting for Obama as a spoof. This makes much more sense.
This is the kind of guy that has been helping run the Republican Party for the last twenty years.
And folks wonder why it’s heading for the ask heap of history.
The cover of the New Yorker flipped him.
What’s the jist of his spoof?
mccain’s campain is so far off the rails I expect him to make such a statement.
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