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
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