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Yes, I've changed my mind. I hope Obama wins in a landslide. I'm going to do what I can to make sure it happens. I encourage all my fellow conservative and libertarian friends on this board to do the same.
Why?
I'm convinced John McCain will do more harm than good to the Republican Party and, by extension, to those who truly believe in laissez faire freedom. Ultimately, a McCain presidency will irrevocably damage this nation.
As McCain has demonstrated over the past week or so, he's an economic buffoon. A short example will suffice: Here is a man who suspended his campaign to return to Washington to act on the financial bailout bill. When he got to Washington, he sat on his hands and said nothing of importance. (Other than to suggest that the federal government had the authority even without the bailout bill to spend $1-trillion buying up private mortgages. He advocated this nonsense in addition to, eventually, cheerleading the bailout bill.)
McCain then left Washington and the bailout bill hanging to participate in the Presidential debate in which he spent 75% of his time lecturing the nation on the evils of pork barrell "earmarks." He said with all sincerity he would, as President, veto the first bill laden with earmarks to cross his desk.
So what does he do? He patters back to Washington after the debate and votes for the bailout bill -- a bill so laden in special interest pork it virtually squeals!
McCain's positions on immigration, finance reform, abortion and big government (he likes it, despite what he says), already had me squirming. His only saving grace is his position on national defense and the war in Iraq. Sorry, it's not enough.
I understand Barack Obama is an economic illiterate himself, economically a bigger moron than McCain, if that's possible. His prescriptions will kill the patient. His vision for the country is the opposite of prosperity: European socialism. However, the country is headed there anyway. I'd rather Obama get the credit for leading us there than a buffoon in free market clothing.
With regard to Iraq, I'm hoping Obama has sufficiently lied and backpeddled his way out of his defeatist initial positions so that public opinion will force him to see Iraq through. If he follows through in Afghanistan and Pakistan as promised, he will have no choice other than to build up the military. Besides, as history has shown, Democratic administrations that come into power after promising peace are usually closet warmongers. Unlike smarmy Republicans, they don't hesitate to bring out the big guns and use them mercilessly. (Maybe it's the uniforms that finally get them. Or the power. The military equals power and Democrats, God knows, are power-trippers.)
I also understand that, as President, Barack Obama and his Democratic spinmeisters will claim that everything that will go wrong with the country in the next four to eight years will not be the result of Obama's wrong-headed social programs and his military adventurism but the result of previous Republican malfeasance. Obama and friends will claim -- as Democrats have always claimed -- that Republicans had dug the country into such a deep and bottomless pit that it will take us many years (and scads of Democrat social programs and trillions of taxpayer dollars) to dig ourselves out.
So be it.
I hang my hat on a single hook: Individual Americans are not altogether stupid. They will eventually see through the Democrat fog and return the country to real fiscal and social sanity soon after the Obama experiment ends.
Of course, there is this much worse possibility: Obama and friends will drive the country into literal financial, political and social ruin, at which time free patriots will once again have to take their country back by force. We'll have to fight the Revolutionary War all over again.
But it would be a good fight, one I could put my heart and soul into, a fight far different and more satisfying than this worthless political campaign we are being asked to fight now, lead by a mousy paper warrior named John McCain.
Why?
I'm convinced John McCain will do more harm than good to the Republican Party and, by extension, to those who truly believe in laissez faire freedom. Ultimately, a McCain presidency will irrevocably damage this nation.
As McCain has demonstrated over the past week or so, he's an economic buffoon. A short example will suffice: Here is a man who suspended his campaign to return to Washington to act on the financial bailout bill. When he got to Washington, he sat on his hands and said nothing of importance. (Other than to suggest that the federal government had the authority even without the bailout bill to spend $1-trillion buying up private mortgages. He advocated this nonsense in addition to, eventually, cheerleading the bailout bill.)
McCain then left Washington and the bailout bill hanging to participate in the Presidential debate in which he spent 75% of his time lecturing the nation on the evils of pork barrell "earmarks." He said with all sincerity he would, as President, veto the first bill laden with earmarks to cross his desk.
So what does he do? He patters back to Washington after the debate and votes for the bailout bill -- a bill so laden in special interest pork it virtually squeals!
McCain's positions on immigration, finance reform, abortion and big government (he likes it, despite what he says), already had me squirming. His only saving grace is his position on national defense and the war in Iraq. Sorry, it's not enough.
I understand Barack Obama is an economic illiterate himself, economically a bigger moron than McCain, if that's possible. His prescriptions will kill the patient. His vision for the country is the opposite of prosperity: European socialism. However, the country is headed there anyway. I'd rather Obama get the credit for leading us there than a buffoon in free market clothing.
With regard to Iraq, I'm hoping Obama has sufficiently lied and backpeddled his way out of his defeatist initial positions so that public opinion will force him to see Iraq through. If he follows through in Afghanistan and Pakistan as promised, he will have no choice other than to build up the military. Besides, as history has shown, Democratic administrations that come into power after promising peace are usually closet warmongers. Unlike smarmy Republicans, they don't hesitate to bring out the big guns and use them mercilessly. (Maybe it's the uniforms that finally get them. Or the power. The military equals power and Democrats, God knows, are power-trippers.)
I also understand that, as President, Barack Obama and his Democratic spinmeisters will claim that everything that will go wrong with the country in the next four to eight years will not be the result of Obama's wrong-headed social programs and his military adventurism but the result of previous Republican malfeasance. Obama and friends will claim -- as Democrats have always claimed -- that Republicans had dug the country into such a deep and bottomless pit that it will take us many years (and scads of Democrat social programs and trillions of taxpayer dollars) to dig ourselves out.
So be it.
I hang my hat on a single hook: Individual Americans are not altogether stupid. They will eventually see through the Democrat fog and return the country to real fiscal and social sanity soon after the Obama experiment ends.
Of course, there is this much worse possibility: Obama and friends will drive the country into literal financial, political and social ruin, at which time free patriots will once again have to take their country back by force. We'll have to fight the Revolutionary War all over again.
But it would be a good fight, one I could put my heart and soul into, a fight far different and more satisfying than this worthless political campaign we are being asked to fight now, lead by a mousy paper warrior named John McCain.
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