AFTER ALL, IT'S NOT LIKE THE IRAQIS ARE EUROPEAN:

A Conservative for Obama: My party has slipped its moorings. It’s time for a true pragmatist to lead the country. (Wick Allison, D)

In 1964, at the age of 16, I organized the Dallas County Youth for Goldwater. My senior thesis at the University of Texas was on the conservative intellectual revival in America. Twenty years later, I was invited by William F. Buckley Jr. to join the board of National Review. I later became its publisher. [...]

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. [...]

Most important, Obama will be a realist.

Of course, during the Cold War the paleocons had a healthy loathing for Realists and followed the bellicose Goldwater and Reagan.

Posted by Orrin Judd at October 6, 2008 11:03 PM