As usual, VDH published a superb column. He ends it with the following two paragraphs (but do read the whole thing):
Yet for a self-acclaimed conservative to vote Obama would mean that
higher taxes, larger
government, more entitlements, more of a
UN-centered foreign policy, dialogue with an Iran, less
coal,oil, and
nuclear energy production at home, more "oppression" studies and
"reparations", leftish Supreme Court judges, open borders (I could go
on) were the truly conservative positions, or perhaps suddenly truly
the 'right' positions. And as far as ethics go, in fact, a cursory
review of the past Obama campaigns would reveal a ruthlessness never
seen in any of McCain's efforts. Obama's record is far more left than
McCain's is far right. Obama the healer has proven to be the most
partisan in the Senate, McCain one of the most bipartisan.
Yet to believe that truth would be--if we remember that scene in Tolkien's The Two Towers--to trust the grating harsh voice of Gandalf detailing the dangers of Saruman rather than the mellifluous charm of the latter who in soothing tones outlines his own victimhood.