Friday, October 31, 2008

Barack Obama, a true friend of the conservative

Barack Obama looks to win the election. True conservatives should hope that he does, for history suggests that a leftward swing is in our future, and he appears to be extremely thoughtful, knowledgeable, and curious. His star power will ensure that he, as a President who must appeal to Virginians, Coloradans, Ohioans others in swing states in 2012, will be more beholden to the center voters than he will be to the district that elects Nancy Pelosi.

In other words, conservative family members, you could do a lot worse. Barack wants to win the President to be the President and have an impact. Sure, his views are left of center, but I have no reason to doubt that he means it when he said recently that he intentionally does not criticise the Republican party, because there are too many issues America will need cooperation on.

Lets take the contrary view that Obama is campaigning as a moderate, but when he gets to the White House it will be Liberals Gone Crazy. They will wreck our financial house. They will weaken us internationally. They will bring back the fairness doctrine to eliminate right wing radio. They will encourage abortion. They will tax us so much, there will be no incentive to want to make a lot of money, or be an entrepeneur.

Weakened Financial House: Bush et al have already taken care of this. True, Democrats had a hand in it as well, but the electorate has rightly assigned blame on conservative economic principals supported by Hayek and Friedman. Either way, the house is wrecked, and Americans rightfully don't trust McCain and Palin to fix it. McCain and Palin are economically uncurious, as McCain has admitted multiple times. When you are not curious and are not an expert, you default to the party line, and this line has cost us a lot, and would cost us even more if allowed to continue. Obama, as an intellectual, does not have a pre-defined economic ideology beyond the idea that he believes in a progressive tax code: one where people that make lots get taxed at a hire rate than people that make less. We can argue until we are blue (or red) in the face, but history will show you that when the wealthy get too wealthy, and the poor get too poor, the poor rise up and kick the shit out the wealthy. This does not happen in America, because we have a progressive tax code. If you are well fed, it is hard to have a revolution. Obama He does have relationships with Volcker and Buffett. This is good for America.

They will weaken us internationally: Again, already been done. I have little to say except that it was a poor strategy for Bush to unite our enemies and divide our allies. Symbolically, I believe that only the most cynical of European America haters could not be impressed by what it means historically to elect Barack Hussein Obama. Obama was roundly mocked by the GOP for drawing 200,000 to Berlin. Last I checked, Germany is a democracy, and an ally. Using simple math, if German voters love Barack Obama, then German voters will love German politicians who agree with Obama, therefore, German politicians will have an incentive to cooperate with American policies because it will give them oppotunities for photoops for Obama, rather than having to oppose American policies because Bush is associated with them, and German voters hate Bush. Got that?

They will take away right wing AM radio through the fairness doctrine This is the most absurd. Everyone knows that the right wing dominates the airwaves of the AM radio. If Obama wants to ensure electoral defeat by pissing off all the rural voters in the swing states of 2012, then he will sign the fairness doctrine back into law.

Abortion: Liberals don't like abortion. They just don't like government telling them what to do based on religion even less. Somehow, 'small-government' conservatives aligned with religious conservatives to create a majority in the first part of the new millennium. Historians in the future will wonder at how an alliance between small government conservatives and religious conservatives--who want an expansion of law into what many families now consider there own private life--ever lasted this long.

Now that does not sound so bad, does it? The alternative is for an intellectually bankrupt party lead by someone too old and too young to win. The backlash to that party would be way to the left of Obama, and would likely be an angry leftist ideologue--something that Obama is surely not.

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