Not your Liberal Media
Wick Allison, a conservative with National Review street cred, speaks the truth about his party.
But today it is so-called conservatives who are cemented to political programs when they clearly don’t work. The Bush tax cuts—a solution for which there was no real problem and which he refused to end even when the nation went to war—led to huge deficit spending and a $3 trillion growth in the federal debt. Facing this, John McCain pumps his “conservative” credentials by proposing even bigger tax cuts. Meanwhile, a movement that once fought for limited government has presided over the greatest growth of government in our history. That is not conservatism; it is profligacy using conservatism as a mask.
Today it is conservatives, not liberals, who talk with alarming bellicosity about making the world “safe for democracy.” It is John McCain who says America’s job is to “defeat evil,” a theological expansion of the nation’s mission that would make George Washington cough out his wooden teeth. This kind of conservatism, which is not conservative at all, has produced financial mismanagement, the waste of human lives, the loss of moral authority, and the wreckage of our economy that McCain now threatens to make worse.
Barack Obama is not my ideal candidate for president. (In fact, I made the maximum donation to John McCain during the primaries, when there was still hope he might come to his senses.) But I now see that Obama is almost the ideal candidate for this moment in American history. I disagree with him on many issues. But those don’t matter as much as what Obama offers, which is a deeply conservative view of the world. Nobody can read Obama’s books (which, it is worth noting, he wrote himself) or listen to him speak without realizing that this is a thoughtful, pragmatic, and prudent man. It gives me comfort just to think that after eight years of George W. Bush we will have a president who has actually read the Federalist Papers.
Most important, Obama will be a realist. I doubt he will taunt Russia, as McCain has, at the very moment when our national interest requires it as an ally. The crucial distinction in my mind is that, unlike John McCain, I am convinced he will not impulsively take us into another war unless American national interests are directly threatened.
Powerful stuff coming from a powerful conservative who could have easily stayed silent. He could have just criticized McCain, but Allison went further. He endorsed Obama.
Tags: 2008 Presidential, Barack Obama, John McCain
This is the very reason I am voting for a Dem President for the first time. Nice to see another Repub express these views.
Someone hasn’t been drinking their Kool-Aid!
Seriously, it is really heartening to see that not every conservative believes IOKIYAR. I think our country works much better when we have two parties that live in the reality-based community.
This has blown both brain cells of wingnuts like Chris, Mike W. Sharon, Tyler, Tom S. etc. that have hijacked this site. Note that none have commented on this editorial.
It totally destroys all their rethug conservative and racists claptrap in one shot.
We aim to please! 🙂
“It totally destroys all their rethug conservative and racists claptrap in one shot.”
And Hillary’s top fundraiser endorse McCain today.
Besides, anyone that thinks America’s most liberal senator…is conservative….is obviously off their rocker regardless of what “cred” they have. Sounds like someone got dealt of a cushy gov. job and has sour grapes.
But hey…if that is what he believes so be it. He can be just as wrong as all of you are. That is what makes America great.
Hillary’s fundraiser? You mean Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild ? That’s all you got?? What an elitist!
Perhaps you should Google Wick Allison since you obviously have no idea who he is.
ONE of Hillary’s top fund raisers – a person called Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild who said Obama was “elitist”. Imagine a person who uses the title of “Lady Rothschild” calling Obama “elitist”. You can have her; she belongs with the rest of the racists on your side.
Your two brain cells really have short-circuited.
“Perhaps you should Google Wick Allison since you obviously have no idea who he is.”
Yes.. I don’t know who he is. I am a dumb republican. Is that what you wanted to hear?
What I find funny is that you guys for years have been talking about how ULTRA-RIGHT WING President Bush and his Advisors are. Then when a conservative publisher comes out and says that Bush and McCain aren’t the real conservatives….you start gushing all over the place.
We have said for years that Bush is not living up to conservative principles….and certainly don’t see McCain as a conservative. But I thought you FEARED conservatism….so why are you so happy that a Conservative is calling Obama the Conservative candidate.. I would have thought you found that an insult.
I am a dumb republican. Is that what you wanted to hear?
tell us something we don’t know.
But I thought you FEARED conservatism
NO that is what you were told to think.
What we fear is when people SAY they are conservative. Over the past 30 years many have said they are and few have actually been.
Wrong, I don’t fear conservatism. What I fear is the Far Right of the Republican Party. I actually feel sorry for true conservatives.
Both Dems and Repubs have their lunatic fringe. The difference is that the Republicans are now being controlled by their nut cases.
What Republican president has ever governed as a conservative?
No, GWB is not a conservative – he is the butt-end of conservatism, the logical extension, the pot of manure at the end of the conservative rainbow.
Hear, hear Pandora! I fear the anti-intellectual nuts running the Republican Party.
“Dumb Republican” is redundant.
“financial mismanagement, the waste of human lives, the loss of moral authority, and the wreckage of our economy ”
I fear more of the same.
“The people out, you know, who are the rednecks or whoever, are bitter.” – McCain surrogate Her Royal Highness Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, CNN, 9/18/08
I love her down-to-earthiness!