Allison Endorses Obama

Wick Allison is the former publisher of the National Review, the conservative magazine. Today he wrote a thoughtful column endorsing Obama. His concluding paragraph:

“Every great cause,” Eric Hoffer wrote, “begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” As a cause, conservatism may be dead. But as a stance, as a way of making judgments in a complex and difficult world, I believe it is very much alive in the instincts and predispositions of a liberal named Barack Obama.

This falls into a theme, articulated by many, that Obama is actually more pragmatically conservative than the current iteration of the GOP, the party responsible for the massive increase in the national debt and the expanding size of government.

Thursday, September 18, 2008