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Forget Family Values
The pundits already have. Bipartisan equivocation. Steelering the election. Will the real Ed Morrow please stand up? Plus more.
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There’s a saying I read some time ago that says, “When the choice is between a Democrat and a Democrat, choose the Democrat.”
We all knew a year ago that McCain had no chance (I wrote and told him so), but then we thought he might actually pull it off when he selected Sarah Palin as his running mate. Now, after the inevitable happened and McCain lost, the same [people] who loved McCain a year ago are blaming the loss on Palin.
I can’t begin to tell you how much that [annoys] the real Republicans.
— Rich DeRosa
Stockton, California
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Rocco| 11.11.08 @ 12:14PM
RE: A.C. Santore's letter above.
If I am not mistaken, I think I read a few days ago that the Republican party reaffirmed its rules on primaries for 2012. That may or may not be true; I also understand that the individual states set the rules for primary elections. Nonetheless, if that or some combination thereof is true, then it confirms the moniker "stupid party" for the GOP. Isn't insanity defined as doing the same thing again and again, and expecting a different outcome?
Mr. Elsasser: Right on the money concerning the Republicans' loss of conviction on core beliefs.
David Govett| 11.11.08 @ 12:17PM
As for "Democrats are compelled to follow Republicans with pooper-scoopers," let it be remembered that it was Pelosi-led Democrats who led Congress these past two years. What Congress taxes, it get less of; what is subsidizes, it gets more of. (The President is little more than an economic cheerleader.)
Rocco| 11.11.08 @ 12:29PM
Now on which planet does M. Delphia Block live? There's proof of the efficacy of our public education system - lack of historical perspective, ignorance of history. Citing NPR's "Fresh Air" (anything but) was a dead giveaway. The credit problem didn't happen overnight - it was a long term consequence of Carter's CRA program, aided and abetted by the Clinton administration's pressure on the financial system to increase home ownership. Any banker will tell you of pressure to overlook credit standards because of government pressure to increase lending. Standards were thrown out the window. Any financial institution cannot long survive once that happens. Sooner or later the house of cards will collapse. The Republicans, on paper, did have control of Congress, but in reality could not pass reform legislation into the 2000's when it became clear (McCain's warning in 2005) that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were on the way to collapse. Contrast that with Maxine Waters' moronic comment on the "outstanding leadership" of Franklin Raines. I am not a Republican, and damn sure not a Democrat, but I will give credit where it is due. Republicans did sound the warning, but corrupt Democrats like Dodd, Frank, and even the Redeemer himself blocked reform and were recipients of the largess of those two agencies.
Geez, where do these ignoramuses come from?
Rocco| 11.11.08 @ 12:59PM
Also, the so-called Savings & Loan debacle cited by Block had its genesis in the 1970's due to inflation, migration of savings from low-rate long term savings deposits to higher rate money funds, vs. lower rate long term mortgages. S&L;'s were funding 6% mortgages with 10% short term deposits. At the time, securitization of mortgages was not common. So, over time, the net worth of these institutions was eroded. By 1981, most of the country's nearly 4,000 S&L;'s lost money. And by the way, didn't Reagan enter office in 1981? The issue is not lack of regulation overall, it was the government's mismanagement of the economy which caused the S&L;crisis, and government dictates on the financial services industry which has caused the current crisis - Housing Sec. Cuomo, Dodd, Frank et al. at the helm.
But, I guess facts don't matter much with these Koolaid-drinking idiots on the left.
Ms. Know| 11.15.08 @ 8:06PM
You would think values would play a role in how we pick those who will lead us, but somehow they went out the door, and the left-wing illuminati came on it.