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January 07, 2008
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Loving Obama
By Randall Hoven

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In my lifetime, Republicans have run on platforms of reducing government and being more faithful to the original intent of the Constitution. Why should we believe them any more?

In this election year, the Republican candidates barely even pay lip service to such notions. Now each one has a government program for every problem, just like the Democrats. Huckabee is ready to remove “conservative” from “compassionate conservative”. Romney introduced universal health care in Massachusetts. McCain believes in global warming and gave us Campaign Finance Reform. Thompson agreed with McCain on CFR and went to bat for the plaintiff’s bar when tort reform came up. Ron Paul thinks jihadis will just go away if we ignore them. Giuliani’s highest elected office was mayor.

What would be so bad about a President Obama? On the domestic front, he can only sign or veto what Congress sends him and what the Supreme Court approves. If we don’t elect a Republican Congress in 2008, we’ll have another chance in 2010. Remember when Clinton let his wife try to design our health care system? We got the first Republican Congress in 40 years. There’s a case to be made that the best mix is a Republican Congress and a Democratic President. And frankly, how much more socialist could we get than what “compassionate conservative” already got us?

Back to real life, I would argue that Jimmy Carter gave birth to Ronald Reagan. Over a time horizon greater than the next election cycle, it is better to have a Democrat who acts like a Democrat than a Republican who acts like a Democrat.

for the complete opinion: http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/01/how_i_learned_to_stop_worrying_1.html

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