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Why Conservatives are Voting for Obama

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Looks like there may be more than just me doubting the Republicans this time around- and for about the same reasons...

After 30+ years of doing everything in my power to uphold the US Constitution- and the laws developed under it--Mr.Roberts pretty well sums up my main discontent...

Another Republican with unassailable credentials, former Reagan appointee Paul Craig Roberts, wrote recently: "The Republican Party has shown beyond all doubt that it holds the U.S. Constitution in total contempt. Today, the Republican Party stands for unaccountable executive power. To re-elect such a party is to murder liberty in America."

June 6, 2008
An agenda for a 'politics of aspiration'
The GOP might want to keep it handy after the coming debacle
Steven Greenhut
Sr. editorial writer and columnist
The Orange County Register
[email protected]

Syndicated columnist Bob Novak, writing about the surprising number of conservatives who are backing Democrat Barack Obama rather than Republican John McCain for the presidency, captured their widespread sentiment when he quoted one "Obamacon" with impeccable GOP credentials: "The Republican Party is a dead rotting carcass with a few decrepit old leaders stumbling around like zombies in a horror version of 'Weekend at Bernie,' handcuffed to a corpse." These Obama supporters hold no illusions about Obama's liberalism, but they are so angry at the GOP, Novak writes, that they seek a "therapeutic electoral bloodbath."

Thomas Jefferson argued that "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." From an electoral standpoint, the tree of reform must be refreshed occasionally with the bitter defeat of corrupt, craven, unprincipled and brain-dead politicians. The GOP has the worst offenders these days, so off with their heads – figuratively speaking, of course.

President Bush has increased the size of the federal government faster than even LBJ. Bush promised the nation a humbler foreign policy. Certainly, that's a dead letter. There was a time when Republicans understood the importance of the separation of powers and other protections against centralized government. No more. Another Republican with unassailable credentials, former Reagan appointee Paul Craig Roberts, wrote recently: "The Republican Party has shown beyond all doubt that it holds the U.S. Constitution in total contempt. Today, the Republican Party stands for unaccountable executive power. To re-elect such a party is to murder liberty in America."

No one expects Democrats to be any better, any more constitutional (check out Democratic Supreme Court appointees' opposition to the right of gun ownership in the recent Heller case) or any more capable at bringing the troops home. But in a two-party system, when one party screws up royally, the voters reward the other party.

Those of us who believe in free markets, small government, peace, capitalism, civil liberties and the Constitution will lose, no matter who wins in November. The gloom already is setting in. But there's reason to be optimistic. Our ideas are the right ones. Freedom and capitalism work, while command-and-control policies do not. The question is how to get to the point where those in power begin to loosen rather than tighten their grip over the economy and our lives.

There aren't any easy answers. But once Republicans get drubbed in November, they might begin to slowly, carefully reconstruct a winning message. Sure beats electing a liberal Republican war-monger or re-electing reprobate GOP members of Congress, which will only delay this regenerative process. From defeat springs victory.
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Four or eight years of a President Obama with a Democratic Congress ought to give Republicans some time to build an agenda around these time-tested ideas. Complete Democratic control is a troubling prospect, but it might be the quickest way to turn a rotting corpse into a living organism.

Full Article:
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/government-gop-party-2083930-republican-committed

I see where the Republicans for Obama website is now reporting that since Ron Paul endorsed Obama's Iraq and foreign policy over McCains they are getting many former Paul backers- as well as the military personnel campaign contributions that Paul was leading in collecting...
 
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