Why a huge number of voters apparently will vote for Obama on the idea that he will suddently transform himself into a centrist moderate is beyond me given the fact that his record - the little there is of it - strongly suggests that he will be a very liberal President. In politics, the past is definitely prologue.
I have never seen a major candidate hide his views as well as Obama. Specific policies are anathema to him. He has done a masterful job of letting voters see in him whatever they wish to see.
To hope that he will moderate his views is a bit like asking a leopard to change his spots.
And with Pelosi, et al, in charge of Congress, we are looking at policies and laws which I think many of those who will vote for Obama will strenuously oppose.
To no effect.
Moderates and centrists may very well regret voting for Obama.
Not that I'm voting for him.
Ron Paul is on the ballot in La. I'm voting for him as a [an ineffective] protest vote. My small way to tell the GOP to get its act together, to back off from the hyper-religious [and hypocritical] fervor, to spend less, to not engage in expensive foreign adventures, to regulate and not bail out the wolves of Wall St. at taxpayer expense, to not give us nitwits like Sarah Palin and unbalanced personalities like McCain to vote for, to renounce corporate socialism, etc.. In short, to get back to what conservatism is about, not the insane, ersatz version of the last eight years. This message is probably going to be delivered in spades by what appears to be at this point a likely Obama win. I hope the GOP is listening for it needs renewal in a big way.
And believe me, I fully recognize that Ron Paul has his own problems, but I cannot vote for any of the mainstream candidates. They are all uniformly terrible. |
