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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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.
Mole
Oh, I don’t know. Maybe he doesn’t like McCain .
Trouble is, there are a lot more like him still running the state and national parties. It would take a revolution to recover the party, but there are too many willing to go along because they think the alternative is worse. Meanwhile, we stagger-step to the Left with each offering further in that direction.
Folks just need to face up to the fact that the formerly grand old party is dead.
You're aching to pay more taxes? It's difficult for a reasonable person to believe you're as ignorant and susceptible to 'Rat propaganda as you sound regarding the rest, such as conflating a proven maverick such as McCain with George W. Bush.
LOL @ Larry “retard” Hunter!
Hey, Lar, I’d like to hear what you have to say when Obama’s taking a large chunk of your income in taxes, and we’re STILL in Iraq. Check back then, plz.
“The cover of the New Yorker flipped him.”
Baloney! He laughed at the cover, like most conservatives would.
This guy has been following politics for a long while. The ones that would be flipped would be those that respond to 10 sec sound bite and their not even listening to this stuff yet.
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