Even the Libertarians Support Obama

Interestingly, Radley Balko, a senior editor at Reason, a (slightly-right-leaning) libertarian magazine, and a former policy analyst for the Cato Institute, which came up in class today, essentially endorsed the Democratic Party and Barack Obama. Balko said, essentially, that the Dems can't be any worse for liberty than the Republicans have been:

"You can either endorse the idea of a massive, invasive, ever-encroaching federal government that's used to promote center-left ideology, or you can endorse the idea of a massive, invasive, ever-encroaching federal government that's used to promote center-right ideology."

Balko is encouraging libertarian-minded readers to vote Democratic to repudiate the Republican party for straying from its small-government, liberty-focused roots, but he is cynical (as I am) about the possibility that a Democratic victory would appear as anything other than a mandate for leftist Democratic policies.