Feb 082008
 

As a conservative who will not vote for John McCain, I seem to be on the receiving end of a lot of conservative vitriol.

John Hawkins says there is nothing conservative or principled about me.

Daniel Henninger of the WSJ says I need to grow up.

Kathleen Parker says I’m a cannibal.

Linda Chavez says I’m truculent.

A commenter at In The Agora says I’m a political terrorist.

But I won’t be voting for McCain.  It’s a shame, because there are a couple of important points on which I  agree with him.  I think he would handle the Iraq war better than any of the other candidates, and that is huge.  I agree with him on protecting the ANWR (though would gladly have the whole place strip-mined if that could somehow keep him or Hillary out of the presidency).

It’s too bad, but his stance against free speech and the First Amendment is a show stopper.

I doubt I’ll vote for Barak Obama, but I would much prefer a liberal Barak Obama to an authoritarian/fascist John McCain or an authoritarian/fascist Hillary Clinton.   The question for me is, is Barak Obama really a liberal?  I’m not sure if it’s possible for a liberal to exist in American politics these days.  But if Obama is one and the worst he wants to do is destroy the economy through redistributionist tax codes, I think we could survive four years of it.