Friday 12 September 2008

The Conservative Case For Obama

Earlier in the year, I reprinted in full an American Conservative article by Andrew J. Bacevich.

The following extract is very well worth reprinting again:

Social conservatives counting on McCain to return the nation to the path of righteousness are kidding themselves. Within this camp, abortion has long been the flagship issue. Yet only a naïf would believe that today’s Republican Party has any real interest in overturning Roe v. Wade or that doing so now would contribute in any meaningful way to the restoration of “family values.” GOP support for such values is akin to the Democratic Party’s professed devotion to the “working poor”: each is a ploy to get votes, trotted out seasonally, quickly forgotten once the polls close.

And the whole article is very well worth another look.

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