" Moderate Republicans are abandoning the McCain candidacy, "
yeah and they are gonna vote for MR. hate american, tax every one and every company and spent an extra trillion on new entitlements
Don't you get the feeling that you can already write the post-election analysis if Mr. Obama loses? "A nation still unable to shake its legacy of racism and discrimination ... a nation so xenophobic about anyone with a foreign-sounding name could not be elected. ... Obama could not correct the misimpression that he was a Muslim." It would almost be worth having Mr. Obama win to avoid the nauseating analysis that will certainly follow his loss.
But not quite. It is hard to think of any issue dear to the hearts of conservatives on which Barack Obama is not planted firmly on the other side - the power of diplomacy vis-a-vis aggressors, the proper care and feeding of teachers unions, the threat of terrorism, affirmative action, the importance of free trade, immigration reform - I could go on. If elected, President Obama, arm-in-arm with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, would be in a position to do serious damage to the country on a number of fronts. His convention speech removed any doubt that he is an orthodox, big - no, huge -- government liberal.
To focus on one important area: Barack Obama could rewrite our health-care system. On any number of occasions during the primaries, Mr. Obama offered that if he were designing a health-care system from scratch, he would choose a single-payer option. But since we've got this employment-based system, he has chosen to reform what we have instead - or so he claims. Yet if his reforms are enacted, they will drive private insurance out of the market entirely.
Mr. Obama has embraced the "play or pay" concept first offered by Michael Dukakis. To solve the problem of the 47 million uninsured, Mr. Obama would require all but the smallest businesses to either offer health insurance that meets government guidelines or pay a tax that would finance government-provided health insurance.
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