@Joe Marshall
I agree with you on a few points regarding how the current administration facilitated our current situation. The way in which deregulation was enacted was neglectful and forgetful of the famous quote by Reagan, “Trust but verify”.
It is ridiculous for us conservatives to hold Congress and the White House and still blame the Dems when we couldn’t right the ship. It is ridiculous for us to have nominated one candidate who for the last 8 years was incapable of articulating America’s national and international interests. With Bush’s lack of articulation we have allowed others to articulate our interests for us. Since Bush couldn’t sell the war well, those who opposed it found it easy to talk America out of that challenge. The same can be said for any number of other issues. Now we have selected another candidate who fails to articulate America to itself and who, I fear, if he wins will be unable to drown out the message put out by those who articulate negative policies well. This negative policy is what Obama is all about.
The Republicans, in Congress or in the White House, have not followed through with policies that we voted them in to enact. It wasn’t deregulation that screwed us up, it was a lack of transparency and which allowed businesses (banks and other companies) to play with figures to make the company look healthier then they were. Now the government hands these same companies our hard earned money in an effort to avoid a market correction of these inflated values. That is not conservative and it is not good for America. The problem with any of us supporting the Democratic Party is that none of them even pretend to have policies we might agree with. I don’t want much regulation. I just want a market that is aware of what it is buying. I don’t want the government to take care of me. I want a country that facilitates opportunities for me to take care of myself. I don’t want a government that is interested in its own power for its own sake. I want a government that has just enough power to protect my stake. Neither party has done much of a job in allowing these liberal notions to function as they should and I blame the Republicans for letting their constituents down by not representing these ideals as they promised.
