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Liam OBrien: I would vote for John McCain

Western Standard blogger Liam O'Brien tells readers he would vote for US presidential candidate John McCain.

Liam OBrien - November 3, 2008

I'd vote McCain. The 2000s saw successive protectionists gain power in both major US parties. Free trade and its powerful benefits were forgotten. New economic turbulence may cause pain. Obama will respond to this with megadoses of economic morphine -- spending America can't afford, excessive interventions, and trade barriers the rest of the world can't afford.

Obama lacks the experience to know that his "solutions" are slippery slides that lead to a US-sized economic "sick man," something like the UK's condition in the 1970s. Britons faced a crossroads in 1979. They were smart enough to recognize that Margaret Thatcher offered freedom and individual-empowering popular capitalism. Jim Callaghan offered labour fiefdom and job killing regulation. Thatcher won -- and saved Britain.

Like Britain then, America needs change now. Some think change must mean Democrats. Think twice. Bush and Obama are mirror images on economics. Bush stopped seeking free trade, Obama wants to eviscerate NAFTA. Bush spent oodles on Iraq, Obama wants oodles spent in Washington. Americans must avoid these mirrored morphine addicts and put a grown-up back in charge. The man for the job is John McCain.

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Liam O'Brien is originally from Buchans, Newfoundland and Labrador. A lifelong NL Patriot, Conservative activist, and local historian, O'Brien currently lives and practices law in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador.