Another Obamacon

Larry Hunter channels my exact thoughts on the candidates so far.

I'm a lifelong Republican - a supply-side conservative. I worked in the
Reagan White House. I was the chief economist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
for five years. In 1994, I helped write the Republican Contract with America. I
served on Bob Dole's presidential campaign team and was chief economist for Jack
Kemp's Empower America. This November, I'm voting for Barack Obama.
When I first made this decision, many colleagues were shocked. How could I support a candidate with a domestic policy platform that's antithetical to almost
everything I believe in?
The answer is simple: Unjustified war and
unconstitutional abridgment of individual rights vs. ill-conceived tax and
economic policies - this is the difference between venial and mortal sins.
Taxes, economic policy and health care reform matter, of course. But how we
extract ourselves from the bloody boondoggle in Iraq, how we avoid getting into
a war with Iran and how we preserve our individual rights while dealing with
real foreign threats - these are of greater importance.