Dark Star

Andy McCarthy:

For a long time, I struggled with the question whether it would be better — especially on the matter of conservative reform discussed here yesterday — if we just resigned ourselves to rebuilding and becoming a coherent opposition to an Obama administration.

I abandoned that idea because, while I disagree with McCain on many things, I am frightened by Obama. He would try to change the United States in very fundamental ways. He may be exceedingly bright, but my litmus test is not whether he can discuss Reinhold Niebuhr's philosophy on a dime. Many very smart, well-educated people are enamored of monstrous ideas, and a lot of them make terrible (indeed, dangerous) leaders. Obama's moorings are in the radical Left. That's what we know about him. I don't think we can afford to hope his intellect grows him out of it from the White House.

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