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Why Conservatives Should Love Obama

Rand Paul, a to-be candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, told a radio show Tuesday he believes President Barack Obama is trying to “transform America into a socialist nightmare.” This is a standard rallying cry from the far right, even if it’s rarely laid out in such plainspoken language by a mainstream politician. The United States of America, it goes, is becoming a socialist hellhole.

But here’s the problem: The numbers don't back that up. Instead, they reveal an America that is running away from a “socialist” anything.

As President Obama enters the final half of his last term, he has left us with an America that conservatives should love.

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The trickle down dynamics of Reaganomics have been cemented into the tax code, abortion rates are down, and border enforcement has led to record deportations. The United States remains the military might of the world, augmented by an aggressive drone warfare program that allows for low risk interventions in hostile foreign lands. Union membership is down. International trade is on the rise.

Even on issues where conservatives might differ, like same sex marriage and marijuana legalization, the states have acted in lieu of the Feds, serving as the laboratories of democracy that conservatives have long claimed they always should have been.

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