Obama Temptation & How to Fight It

I have encountered a scarily large amount of middle-class, self-described moderate to conservatives who are seriously leaning to Obama. These are informed people who pay some attention to the news but who are not steeped in politics. Dane Stangler is a perfect example. His RCP article captures the conundrum quite well. Our job as conservatives is to talk them out of it with well-informed reasons.

My conclusion on these people is twofold: 1) They suffer from Bush fatigue and want, *sigh* "Change." Face it. President Bush has worn out his welcome even among many of us who think is a good, sincere man. 2) These voters do not realize just how liberal Senator Obama is. He votes like a redistributionist, pro-abortion lefty, but he talks like a mainstream moderate.

It is futile to try to defend President Bush or to argue that McCain is not Bush. Democratic propagandists, playing the media like Satan's Bagpipes, have already joined Bush and McCain at the hip. Game over.

I think the best way to convince our undecided friends is to raise the specter of a Liberal Supermajority, and provide details. The Obama-Pelosi-Reid Totalitarian Trio will run roughshod over all conservative opposition and implement the most radically liberal agenda since the Great Depression. If you think President Bush expanded government, you ain't seen nuthin' yet!

The Wall Street Journal makes the case:

- Medicare for All. They can't do it without raising taxes or increasing the debt. Do you want your Mom or Dad waiting a year and a half for needed heart surgery?

- Punish Business. Anti-business laws, taxes, and congressional inquisitions will kill job creation. Cause too much trouble for businesses and they will pack up their jobs and move elsewhere. Just ask Michigan.

- Return of Big Labor. Intimidation. No secret ballots in voting for or against a union. Attack on "right to work" laws and a return to mandatory union membership. This too kills jobs. Again, ask Michigan.

- Taxes. Do you really believe 95% of Americans will get a tax break? How will they pay for it? By the way, the bottom 35% pay no taxes now, so that means Obama and Pelosi will simply give them free money they've taken from you. Sounds like a bribe for votes scheme to me.

- Save the planet. Jobs-killing environmental laws. Carbon taxes. Liberal "green" industries subsidized by billions of your tax dollars

- Free Speech and Voting Rights. Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Michael Medved silenced via the Fairness Doctrine. Hollywood gets to keep yapping. Look what they've done already to Joe the Plummer just for asking a question. Felons will be given the right to vote. Ultra-liberal Washington DC will be given two Democratic senators and a Democratic congressman, increasing the Democratic majority

- Special interest give-aways. Pro-abortion, teachers unions, trial lawyers, you name it. They will all gorge themselves at the government trough. And all at your expense. Work hard. Your government needs your money.

For years, conservative/Liberal self-identification has consistently been roughly 60% conservative, 40% liberal. A solid majority consistently express the desire for less government and more personal autonomy in the choices they make for themselves and their families. Many of these people just don't understand that a vote for Obama is a vote for The Totalitarian Triangle that is determined to take America in the opposite direction.

You've got to do your part. Print a copy of the WSJ article and convince at least one fence-sitter.