A conservative convert to Obamamania!

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Tuesday April 01, 2008 · 8:57 AM PDT

2008/04/01 · 08:57

For most of my life I have been a staunch conservative, not sure really when that started, I just always was. It was the way of things. However, after 7 years of a conservative presidency, a quagmire of a war, an economy in tatters and on the way down, it is clear that conservative policies are simply wrong.

If the "free market" big business policies of Republicans worked, why are millions of us losing our homes and millions more on the edge? If tax cuts for the rich were to herald in an era of unpresidented prosperity, why are there records of numbers of people on food stamps? We've seen tort reform, where is the health care for the 50+ million people who don't have insurance?

It's clear that the ideas have simply failed, which is largely why I (and conservatives and right-wingers) were so vicious. When you don't have anything else to stand on, you attack and claw away. But eventually (hopefully) you realize that you are fighting for a failed idea. And that's why I've jettisoned conservatism, the Republican party and I'm going for Obama.

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