Why should you vote for Obama on Nov. 4?Don’t take it from me – take it from conservatives. Here it is — the conservative case for Obama.Gov. Sarah Palin: There is no doubt Palin’s selection as McCain’s running mate excited the “grassroots” base of the Republican Party, but it also scared many “professional” conservatives away. In fact, it’s the top reason many Obama-backing conservatives — affectionately referred to as Obamacons — give for their treachery. “Even at McDonald’s,” said former Reagan Chief of Staff Ken Duberstein, “you’re interviewed three times before you’re given a job.”The New York Times’ conservative columnist, David Brooks, recently called Palin a “fatal cancer” to the Republican Party. Colin Powell, in his endorsement of Obama on “Meet the Press,” said Palin is simply unqualified to takeover as commander in chief, which “is the job of the vice president.”They see Palin not only as unfit to lead but also a continuation of Bush’s anti-intellectual “populism” — perhaps even worse.”There has been a counter, more populist tradition,” Brooks said, “which is not only to scorn liberal ideas but to scorn ideas entirely. And I’m afraid that Sarah Palin has those prejudices. I think President Bush has those prejudices.”Even some in the still vehemently anti-Obama camp are weary of Palin’s selection. Kathleen Parker, a writer for the neo-con magazine National Review, called on Palin to step down as McCain’s running mate. Unlike these Obamacons, Parker was initially excited by Palin’s selection and remains a stalwart McCain supporter. Fiscal prudence: Conservatives have had a strange eight years. They saw a Republican president and Congress inherit a surplus in the Congressional budget and turn it into a quagmire of debt. They saw a Republican president nationalize the banking system.Their party of fiscal prudence and limited government was destroyed by a Republican president. Obamacons simply see Obama as more fiscally conservative than McCain. Andrew Sullivan — a conservative blogger whose site has become one of the most pro-Obama places on the Web — writes that McCain’s refusal to “touch taxes means an extra $4 trillion in debt over the massive increase presided over by Bush.”You didn’t read that incorrectly — even some conservatives now believe raising taxes is necessary.Rebirth: After witnessing Bush’s fiscal irresponsibility, some see Obama’s election — and the downfall of the current Republican Party — as an opportunity to re-establish the conservative principles their party has strayed from.They see McCain as a candidate without a real governing philosophy. He talks tough on wasteful spending and earmarks, but he supported the bailout package and picked a running mate who governs the state that receives more earmarks than any other state in the union. He has never specified what programs he would cut, but he promised additional expensive programs like green energy and health care rebates — and he won’t raise taxes to pay for any of it. On top of all that, he promised a spending freeze that wouldn’t really be a spending freeze — we are in two wars, after all.  Temperament: McCain’s shoot-from-the-hip mentality scares many conservatives — as evidenced by his whacky reaction to the financial crisis by “suspending” his campaign and the reactionary and unvetted selection of Palin. They see McCain’s self-righteousness and anger — his binary world view wherein he is the grand savior and his opponents pure evil — as nothing but problematic, especially in foreign policy. Obama, on the other hand, is uncharacteristically cool and sharp. Obama is not a demagogue for liberal ideals, and he — says Obamacons — knows that one political philosophy won’t solve all the nation’s troubles.”But having a first-class temperament and a first-class intellect, President Obama will (I pray, secularly) surely understand that traditional left-politics aren’t going to get us out of this pit we’ve dug for ourselves,” said Christopher Buckley, whose father, William F. Buckley Jr., helped build the modern conservative movement. So don’t listen to me — listen to some of the most prominent and scholarly conservatives in America: Vote for Obama.—-Contact Nate Monroe at [email protected]