Ethics

Former National Review Publisher Endorses Obama

By Ed Brayton

Wick Allison, former publisher of the National Review, has endorsed Barack Obama and the reason is pretty interesting to read. So is his critique of what political conservatism has become in this country:

But 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.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on September 22, 2008 (boomark / email).