The Contract with America was championed by Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay and is widely credited as fostering the neo-con revolution of the mid-90's. The influential document helped Republicans win back congress for the first time in 40 years and it's policies helped get George W. Bush into the White House.

The author of The Contract With America is Larry Hunter. He is a life-long conservative activist. In November, he will be voting for Barack Obama!!! In his own words, here's why:

I’m a lifelong Republican - a supply-side conservative. I worked in the Reagan White House. I was the chief economist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for five years. In 1994, I helped write the Republican Contract with America. I served on Bob Dole’s presidential campaign team and was chief economist for Jack Kemp’s Empower America.

This November, I’m voting for Barack Obama.

When I first made this decision, many colleagues were shocked. How could I support a candidate with a domestic policy platform that’s antithetical to almost everything I believe in?

The answer is simple: Unjustified war and unconstitutional abridgment of individual rights vs. ill-conceived tax and economic policies - this is the difference between venial and mortal sins.

Taxes, economic policy and health care reform matter, of course. But how we extract ourselves from the bloody boondoggle in Iraq, how we avoid getting into a war with Iran and how we preserve our individual rights while dealing with real foreign threats - these are of greater importance.

John McCain would continue the Bush administration’s commitment to interventionism and constitutional overreach. Obama promises a humbler engagement with our allies, while promising retaliation against any enemy who dares attack us. That’s what conservatism used to mean - and it’s what George W. Bush promised as a candidate.

In a week when Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki more-or-less endorsed Obama, his is another massive blow to McCain's already incredibily weak campaign. And now rumors are swirling that former Bush Secretary of State, ufortunate war criminal (he did knowingly lie to the UN about Iraq), and disenfranchised Conservative Colin Powell is likely to endorse Barack Obama for President.