In 1964, at the age of 16, I organized the Dallas County Youth for Goldwater. My senior thesis at the University of Texas was on the conservative intellectual revival in America. Twenty years later, I was invited by William F. Buckley Jr. to join the board of National Review. I later became its publisher […] [T]oday 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. Today it is conservatives, not liberals, who talk with alarming bellicosity about making the world ‘safe for democracy.’ It is John McCain who says America’s job is to ‘defeat evil,’ a theological expansion of […]
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Former National Review Publisher Endorses Obama
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Source: Daily Kos
Publication Date: Wed Sep 17, 2008 at 01:44:34 PM PDT
Link: Former National Review Publisher Endorses Obama
Source: Daily Kos
Publication Date: Wed Sep 17, 2008 at 01:44:34 PM PDT
Link: Former National Review Publisher Endorses Obama
Stephan: Wick Allison who is so extensively quoted here is, as he says, the former publisher of the the conservative and iconic National Review. That's why what he has written carries such weight.
Thanks to Sam Crespi.