I supported Barack Obama for president. Now that he’s won, I expect to oppose nearly every policy he wants to implement.

This is the position in which most conservatives and libertarians who supported Obama now find themselves. I think it’s worth stating up front that this doesn’t (or won’t) mean that we regret the choice we made. Obama is, and has been, a Democrat and a fairly liberal one at that. No one’s eyes were closed. There were a number of things at stake in this election (presidential temperament, rewarding the Republican Party’s politics of hate and fear and division, pulling back from a disastrous neoconservative foreign policy), and we all made our choices.

The day may come when some of us regret those choices. But, for now, I can’t help but share in some of the excitement of this historic moment. It’s all been said before, but how can anyone not be proud of America today?

We’ll support Obama when we agree with him, oppose him when we don’t. And the Republic will carry on — stronger, I think, for being purged of the Bush-Rove-McCain-Palin toxin.