Palin hired Michael Glassner to be her chief-of-staff. He’s a long-time establishment political operative; he worked for Bob Dole. He was part of the McCain for President team that you criticize here.
I thought it was Romney’s “turn”, and we were dedicated to find a true conservative to stop him. We found a guy Sarah Palin called a “true conservative”, but it seems some want to tear him down for some reason, even though when Sarah Palin gets in the race he’ll be an afterthought.
I not ready to fall into the populist trap. Populism is not conservatism (it’s not liberalism either, it’s an orthoganal trait). I don’t mind a bit of populism. But I’m not going to burn down the corporations simply because they know how to game a system built by our politicians.
We fix government, we limit it’s scope, the corporations have no reason anymore to influence the system. Excessive regulation requires corporations to try to influence the regulators and the regulation-writers to protect themselves, and to turn the regulations on their competitors.
I don’t think the liberals will mind at all if the tea partiers turned into an anti-corporate movement. I don’t think it will happen — most of us are employed by corporations who want nothing more than for the government to let their companies alone to react to market conditions rather than political ones.
Populism becomes more popular in economic downturns, and the liberals are counting on it. I hope we don’t fall into that trap.
Excessive regulation requires corporations to try to influence the regulators and the regulation-writers to protect themselves, and to turn the regulations on their competitors.
They buy them, Charles. It's been that way for a long time. The current crop in DC is NOT going to stop their own gravy train.
Capital cronyism , pay to play, it all has to STOP.