Obama for President

Speaking of Hucksterbee, here is a heartfelt essay about his "conservative principles" from my dear valentine, dagny:

"This is the greatest country in the world. This is true because of IDEAS. The ideas of our founding fathers enumerating in our founding documents are the greatest invention that mankind has managed to date.

Chief among these ideas is the concept of individual liberty and all else flows from that. Anybody have any questions on where I stand?

Now, I have realized for all of my adult life that politicians of both parties in this country wish to infringe my individual liberties. Most of this stuff is included right in their platforms. The Democrats wish to:

1) Take my money (most people call this theft) and give it to those who haven’t earned it.
2) Tell me whether to smoke.
3) What to eat
4) What to drive
5) Indoctrinate me and my children in the ways of Multi-culturalism and Eco-nazism, both of which infringe individual liberties.
6) Refuse to defend the US from foreign threats due to their belief in above doctrines.
7) And perhaps most importantly, TAKE MY GUNS. The second amendment to the constitution is the ONE that is necessary to defend all the rest when times get tough.

The Republicans wish to:

1) Take almost as much of my money as the Democrats (this is known as compassionate conservatism)
2) Trade liberty for security (the Patriot Act). Those who would give up ESSENTIAL LIBERTY to purchase a little TEMPORARY SAFETY, deserve neither LIBERTY nor SAFETY.
3) Spend tax money on, “faith based initiatives.”
4) Include religion in the public schools. Did you know that, “Under God,” was added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954 and was not part of the original?
5) Define marriage.
6) Tell me and my Doctor and my husband whether I can have an abortion and which birth control methods ought to be allowed.
7) Indoctrinate me and my children in the ways of God and faith.

Based on the above, you will note that I am what is normally called fiscally conservative and socially liberal. In fact, my philosophy is internally consistent and based on individual Liberty and the philosophies of both the Democrats and the Republicans are a mish mash of conflicting ideas.

I have always felt like the greater threats to, and successful infringements of my Liberty have come from the Democrats and working on the, “lesser of 2 evils,” theory, I have almost universally voted Republican. I find it extremely sad that I never remember having representatives that I wanted to vote FOR but always many, many, that I wanted to vote AGAINST. Under this theory I can probably cast a ballot in favor of John McCain.

This year, however, the Republicans have in the race and are talking about as a possible Vice President to McCain, Governor Mike Huckabee. Huckabee is wrong on at least 12 and maybe 13 of the points I outlined above (many more than Obama.) He represents the WORST ideas of both the Republicans and the Democrats and I will not vote for any ticket that has his name on it. As I believe it is important to vote, I will go and cast a ballot for a Democrat if Huckabee is our nominee.

At least if the disastrous collectivist economic policies of a Democrat throw us into a recession or a revolution, the blame will be placed on the real problem. If the collectivist economic policies of a Republican throw us into a recession, or worse, we will be told that, “capitalism doesn’t work.”

And so…Obama for President."

While I see where she's coming from I can't quite say I'm with her on voting for Obama (or Hillary) even in the extremely unlikely event of a McCain/Hucksterbee ticket.

2008 Race Posted by JohnGalt at February 14, 2008 1:09 AM