Doug Kmiec’s endorsement of Sen. Obama in “Slate” is interesting, to say the least: first he endorses Obama, then he spends a large part of the article outlining his reservations, qualifications, and hopes for a firm purpose of amendment. On the whole, I think it is not so appealing as Paul Gottfried’s (perhaps hypothetical) endorsement at:
http://usconservatives.about.com/od/thinkersanddoers/a/GottfriedStory_2.htm
I gather that Dr. Gottfried is thinking that Obama’s election could be another “divine surprise.” (see, e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Maurras) I might be moved to vote for him myself on that score.
But for now, Francisco Franco is at the top of my candidate list.

I’m somewhat surprised by this endorsement.

Initially, I appreciated Obama’s position on the war and withdrawal, but once I saw through his BS, I actually recognized how dangerous a media creation he is.  When you get beyond his war position, he seems like a very very odd choice for anyone with a conservative, or rightist disposition. I simply cannot reconcile his other policy positions and his very liberal voting record with my rightist leanings - better to stay on the sidelines—no sense encouraging these liars!

I don’t get my hopes up. I will be writing in Ron Paul for my first symbolic vote.

Hopefully when Obama creates a worse economy and doesn’t stop the war (or moves it from Iraq to Afghanistan) people will wake up and smell the roses.

But, probably not.

Surprising how many on the right are experiencing this hallucination: Obama wins the presidency and becomes such a disaster that “people will wake up and smell the roses.” And do what exactly? Turn to the libertarians? Hardly. National disasters turn the country left. The depression gave us a socialist war-monger. The Bush presidency awakened “the people,” who smelled the roses and fell in love with Obama, a hard-core leftist with an abiding racial hatred of the country’s majority. If you think phony conservatives like Bush and McCain hurt the country, imagine the damage Obama’s going to inflict. You don’t wake up from that.

McCain will simply be more Bush. Not good, not preferable, but not necessarily catastrophic. Obama will empower and entrench the forces of the far left, racial and cultural, and that will fundamentally transform America in ways no conservative could countenance. He and Michelle are black nationalists, for God’s sakes, who, as Clinton inferred, hate America at its very core, most particularly its history and traditions. Stop worrying about Tehran and begin worrying about Chicago.

@Forrest

I’m a pacifist, but if it meant pissing off anti-war hate-mongers like you, I’d go.

A McCain presidency would be disasatrous for the
Republican Party. It would be the party responsible for an
undending war, and for the comming Depression.

We’d be lucky if people did not start hanging Republicans from
lamposts.