Former National Review publisher endorses Obama

[kpete]

Former National Review publisher endorses Obama
by kos
Wed Sep 17, 2008 at 01:44:34 PM PDT

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Wick Allison, current editor-in-chief of D (Dallas) Magazine:
http://www.dmagazine.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?nm=Core+Pages&type=gen&mod=Core+Pages&tier=3&gid=B33A5C6E2CF04C9596A3EF81822D9F8E

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.

A Conservative for Obama
My party has slipped its moorings. It’s time for a true pragmatist to lead the country.
Leading Off By Wick Allison, Editor In Chief

In 1964, at the age of 16, I organized the Dallas County Youth for Goldwater. My senior thesis at the University of Texas was on the conservative intellectual revival in America. Twenty years later, I was invited by William F. Buckley Jr. to join the board of National Review. I later became its publisher.

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.


more at:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/17/122651/224/442/601632

[FrenchieCat]

1. Think he'll get any press time from the Media Facist Whores like Lady Rothchild?

Think again.

[Ian David]

2. He's deffinitely a Conservative. He thinks George Washington had wooden teeth. n/t

[Muttocracy]

3. McBush will be bad for EVERYONE! nt

[Imagevision]

4. McCain would be 8 more years of stupid, rocket science not required here!

[yardwork]

5. Sharper than a serpent's tooth.

[Bread and Circus]

6. That's one of the best endorsements I've read to date. Real conservatives

often have a different world view than me, but sometimes they can really shine as truthtellers.

We need pragmatism right now.

[crispini]

7. WICK ALLISON!?

:wow:

Hell just froze over.

[Jane Austin]

9. That name is so familiar.

Like maybe I know him from camp or UT.

[Adelante]

8. Whoa!!

I have to say this is surprising :wow:

[DFW]

10. He cited an inconvenient truth, one that Obama never shouts, but doesn't conceal, either

Obama is not a far leftist by any stretch. I think one of the reason the primaries were
so close is that he and HRC were by far the most centrist of all Democrats running. The
merits of that are for another discussion, but Obama will not pose a huge threat to
classic conservatives. The Neo-cons are wild-eyed radicals who have about as much in
common with conservatives as Sam the Sham had with J.S. Bach.

This is one thing the McCain campaign will never mention, but fears mightily: Obama can
appeal to a significant portion of what they claim as their "base." The nut cases and the
fire eaters will never desert them, but thinking conservatives are disgusted with McFailin'
and are either openly supporting an Obama presidency, or fighting a losing battle trying
to find a justification not to. To a genuine conservative, McCain is no more a role model
than is Crocodile Dundee.

[addicted2politics]

11. did a DNC person endorse McCain?

heard someone talking about an actual DNC member endorsing mccain? that can't be true

[Cha]

12. That's what I've been saying..these pretenders aren't

conservatives!

Good endorsement..that was fast! From the max to mccain during the primaries to an endorsement for Obama now!