Yo hedgetrimmer—I agree. Thanks for reminding me about Phil Gramm. Both parties are at fault with regard to just about every thing that is wrong in our country today. However, the only party that wants to foist communism on us is the Dem Party. And the only party that was actively blocking our achieving energy independence is the same party.
I did not intend to vote for McCain. I was, and still am, fed up with the RNC argument that it’s better to vote pubbie, any pubbie, than let the dems win. If you’re a conservative person the result has only been the appearance of ever more liberal pubbie candidates. I think many people like me concluded that unless we withheld our money and our vote nothing would ever change. McCain’s picking Palin, a conservative, is the result. Also saw Romney take a decided turn to the right at convention so it I think the conservative hold out was effective.
IMO same thing applies to Wall Street and mortgage debacle. If bad behavior is penalized it will be corrected.
As long as any candidate, democrat or republican, has the support of the corporatists, your vote will never change the country for the better. We’re getting into the lesser of two evils discussion again (a losing proposition IMO), and which is more evil, communism or fascism? I say both are evil and Americans should not be made to choose one or the other over a free constitutional government. The Founders would never have reduced the options to two non-choices. They fought for and WON freedom. It is up to us to preserve that legacy, not try to decide if we should pick communism or fascism.