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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That kid played his part well in that flick -
I like a taste of the ‘unusual’. I can recall a book from 20 years ago called “Ammie Come Home” about a woman in a house haunted by Ammie. It was realistic enough to be memorable.
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Don’t watch an oldie:
“The Actress”
A real downer movie!
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Bruce Willis was in the flick with that kid
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“GHOST”
Demi Moore - Whoopie Goldberg
Her husband in the movie is the one who has serious health problems
Forget his name -
I can clearly picture the guy in Ghost but can’t recall the name. You have mentioned ‘the Actress’ before, I don’t remember that one.
I liked Bruce Willis when he first came out in the series with Cybell Sheppard [sp].
You found that fast. I have a new midi site with many like that on it.
We have got away from the topic of the conservative wanting to vote for the Obamination, lol.
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Some threads sorta slooooooow down
Maybe that will perk it up
Lol, you always say that. At least it bumps the thread and often does get it started again.
Ahh. Another David Brock Republican, I see.
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An image &/or audio will show up often on latest posts
We’ve re-started 1-5 year old threads
The Corvette thread just a few days ago
Got my new Cobra earlier today
Isn’t ‘Empower America’ that “moderate” Republican outfit that believes in open borders? As I recall, Jack Kemp and Bill Bennett (founders of ‘Empower America’) worked hard to defeat Prop 187 in California in 1994 arguing that Californians simply MUST flop open their wallets and fork over the cash to any illegal alien who managed to sneak across the border.
This pantload Larry Hunter’s affiliation with ‘Empower America’ explains a lot.
Yes, we have restarted old threads.
Don’t recall seeing your ‘cobra earlier today’. OK, I know what you mean, boys and their toys, lol.
Do you roll it around going ‘VROOM, VROOM’?? snicker.
Marilyn is watching..
Nothing - it never happened - it was all a bad dream. Now go back to your MSM.
Yup. That’s all it is. Same as all those “lifelong conservative” seminar callers who phone in to Rush, all those “lifelong conservatives” who supposedly voted for the Goracle and sKerry, etc. The libscum really think conservatives are stupid enough to believe this garbage.
I could see a “lifelong conservative” staying home this election, refusing to vote for McCain. But voting for Obama, the most lib Senator of the entire donk run Senate? Only if the person had recently suffered some form of severe mental or head trauma. Seriously.
I’m a conservative; but since I can’t vote for Gus Hall, I’ll vote for Obama.
“I share your sentiment, but I’m ‘voting’ to relocate to a place where my new neighbors value freedom and liberty a whole lot more than my current neighbors.”
Just curious — where are you going? I’ve toyed with the idea myself, but haven’t come up with a better place to go. Most of the rest of the world is even further down the path to socialism. At least that’s what I see. If you’ve found an alternative, please share!
“I share your sentiment, but I’m ‘voting’ to relocate to a place where my new neighbors value freedom and liberty a whole lot more than my current neighbors.”
Just curious — where are you going? I’ve toyed with the idea myself, but haven’t come up with a better place to go. Most of the rest of the world is even further down the path to socialism. At least that’s what I see. If you’ve found an alternative, please share!
"Paleoconservatives" like "neoconservatives" are a very small group. If, by contrast, you look at the Republicans of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s you find a lot of skepticism about foreign wars and adventures.
Few of those people would call themselves paleocons today. A lot of them are dead, and other have become Democrats, but that skepticism is a part of Republican tradition.
But to Iran his assumption is, of course, that we must avoid a war with Iran. That is not a given despite Hunter's squeamishness over the matter. In fact, his base assumption that war with Iran must be avoided places him in the immoral, Chamberlainesque, peace-in-our-times camp and that camp is not "conservative" but merely blind.
That's not what he's saying. The "must" isn't there in Hunter's column. It's something Huston sticks in (and italicizes) to make his case look stronger.
Ditto with the talk about pacifism and peace "at any price." It's not there in the article.
Hunter's wrong about Obama, but Huston distorts his point of view.
Actually, it appears he went over to Raving Ron Paul by 2007. See teh Lew Rockwell blog. “Posted by Lew Rockwell at October 16, 2007 08:17 AM
Helen Thomas: “So where do the voters go who are sick of the Iraqi debacle?”
Lawrence A. Hunter: “Democratic and Independent voters who are sick of the Iraqi debacle have no where to go other than to move over and vote for Ron Paul in Republican primaries.”
I looked up FEC records and Lawrence A. “Larry” Hunter has never made a recorded ($250 or more) contribution to any federal candidate, let alone a Republican candidate. Pretty curious for a “lifelong Republican”.
Plus he went Ron Paul on us some time back. See Lew Rockwell’s blog:
“Posted by Lew Rockwell at October 16, 2007 08:17 AM
Helen Thomas: “So where do the voters go who are sick of the Iraqi debacle?”
Lawrence A. Hunter: “Democratic and Independent voters who are sick of the Iraqi debacle have no where to go other than to move over and vote for Ron Paul in Republican primaries.”
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