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Friday, July 18, 2008

I’m a lifelong conservative activist

I’m a lifelong conservative activist and I’m backing Barack Obama

BY LARRY HUNTER

Wednesday, July 16th 2008, 7:39 PM

I’m a lifelong Republican - a supply-side conservative. I worked in the Reagan White House. I was the chief economist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for five years. In 1994, I helped write the Republican Contract with America. I served on Bob Dole’s presidential campaign team and was chief economist for Jack Kemp’s Empower America.

This November, I’m voting for Barack Obama.

When I first made this decision, many colleagues were shocked. How could I support a candidate with a domestic policy platform that’s antithetical to almost everything I believe in?

The answer is simple: Unjustified war and unconstitutional abridgment of individual rights vs. ill-conceived tax and economic policies - this is the difference between venial and mortal sins.

Taxes, economic policy and health care reform matter, of course. But how we extract ourselves from the bloody boondoggle in Iraq, how we avoid getting into a war with Iran and how we preserve our individual rights while dealing with real foreign threats - these are of greater importance.

John McCain would continue the Bush administration’s commitment to interventionism and constitutional overreach. Obama promises a humbler engagement with our allies, while promising retaliation against any enemy who dares attack us. That’s what conservatism used to mean - and it’s what George W. Bush promised as a candidate.

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Pure BS.  He worked in elephant admins while wearing donkey underware.  Nothing more than that to this story.

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atease on July 18, 2008 at 08:30 pm
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I’m a lifelong liberal activist. I’m paranoid. I see conspiracies where none exist. -rbb



For any voter trying to choose between the two candidates for commander in chief, there is no better test than this: When American strategy in a critical theater was up for grabs, John McCain proposed a highly unpopular and risky path, which he accurately predicted could lead to success. Barack Obama proposed a popular and politically safe route that would have led to an unnecessary and debilitating American defeat at the hands of al Qaeda.

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Proof on July 18, 2008 at 08:32 pm

So add Larry Hunter to the list of people who do not understand the nature of the evil we’re dealing with.

Islam has a bloody march.

Ignore that at your own peril.

likwidshoe on July 18, 2008 at 10:15 pm
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likwidshoe: Why are you consumed with perpetuating a religious war against Islam so your Christian beliefs will prevail in your perverse mind that this will somehow help the world?

“The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.” -Georgia Harkness

Nunez on July 18, 2008 at 10:29 pm

Nunez - what? I’m a Christian now? When did that happen and why didn’t anybody tell me?

You assume conspiratorial religion when the reality is that I just recognize a dangerous evil.

I believe that I have something far more imposing than a fantastical storied religion holding me to a position on this one - and that something is a conscience.

As a possessor of this conscience that is opposed to the goals of the head-chopping Muslims, I am naturally in opposition to them.

Is there something wrong with being against the Jihad declared against my own ass? What’s wrong with you? You want to die? Just care not to see it? On their side, perchance? What’s your story? I won’t assume as you did me, so I’m asking here. Just what is your malfunction?

likwidshoe on July 18, 2008 at 10:43 pm
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likwidshoe: I apologize, I forgot that you have ‘Agnostic’ on your myspace. Now, I do think that generalizing all people that practice Islam as ‘evil’ is self-defeating.

Nunez on July 18, 2008 at 10:53 pm

Now, I do think that generalizing all people that practice Islam as ‘evil’ is self-defeating.

What can I say? I’m on the wrong side of the march.

Ignore that at your own peril.

likwidshoe on July 18, 2008 at 10:58 pm

Isn’t there a distinction to be made between picking a fight and acknowledging a threat made against you?

Islam has considered anyone non-Islamic worthy of death, rape and servitude and little else since its inception.

The Koran said it was their right to make war on infidels, to wage what they termed al—jihad fi’l—bahr, or holy war at sea.  Infidel prisoners of war were consigned to various fates: enslavement, ransom, exchange, taxation, release or death.

Anyone not cognizant of that glaring fact needs to educate themselves on the history of Islam versus their actions against the rest of the world (Dar al-Harb) .


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Move_Zig on July 18, 2008 at 11:20 pm

I’m a lifelong conservative activist and I’m backing Barack Obama

Could just as easily of said that he was a lifelong christian who was backing the devil.  One can claim to be anything that they aren’t kind of like liberals who claim to be progressives but are really regressives.


You don’t have to be a moron to be a liberal Democrat but it sure helps.

docdave on July 19, 2008 at 01:56 am

I guess that is his problem he is going to vote for that empty suit BHO, I guess in essence he really can’t call himself a conservative because no self respecting conservative would vote for BHO. The Empty Suit is by definition an anti-American, blame America first Socialist/Marxist that is the king at race baiting. If this guy is truely a conservative as he says he is voting for BHO would make his skin crawl.


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goon on July 19, 2008 at 08:42 am
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He may be an activist, but he ain’t no conservative.

HG on July 19, 2008 at 08:16 pm
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