Vive La Resistance! I

Former publisher of National Review, Wick Allison, endorses Obama. Why? Because no conservative can support the current GOP:

Today it is so-called conservatives who are cemented to political programs when they clearly don’t work. The Bush tax cutsa solution for which there was no real problem and which he refused to end even when the nation went to warled to huge deficit spending and a $3 trillion growth in the federal debt. Facing this, John McCain pumps his “conservative” credentials by proposing even bigger tax cuts. Meanwhile, a movement that once fought for limited government has presided over the greatest growth of government in our history. That is not conservatism; it is profligacy using conservatism as a mask.

Today it is conservatives, not liberals, who talk with alarming bellicosity about making the world “safe for democracy.” It is John McCain who says America’s job is to “defeat evil,” a theological expansion of the nation’s mission that would make George Washington cough out his wooden teeth.

This kind of conservatism, which is not conservative at all, has produced financial mismanagement, the waste of human lives, the loss of moral authority, and the wreckage of our economy that McCain now threatens to make worse.

Read the whole thing. Jeffrey Hart, Bruce Bartlett and Douglas Kmiec are in the same boat. Real conservatives are appalled at the current Republican insanity.