Palin: GOP's free spending caused loss

The GOP lost because Gramm said the problem with the economy was psychological and McCain said the fundamentals were sound, and then he and Palin tried to pretend what he meant was that the workers were fundamentally sound. Who was the great DE-Regulator? You cannot make this stuff up. We have tapes, McCain as DE-regulator, right when de-regulation was the cause of the crisis. Karma came around and happened to bite the GOP in front of everyone. Sometimes people are just too stupid to notice and sometimes they get it.

Lots of people really cared that our civil rights have been altered on the basis of false intelligence. Millions want habeas corpus back, since our Constitution says it cannot be suspended except in insurrection or invasion. It all adds up. Some people love the Constitution and some people love money.

Ottothewise, or should I say the "unwise" (yes bad joke but I digress), I don't think you quite get the concept of governmental regulation. Clinton lowered the federal interest rates, which Bush did even further. This regulation caused "moral hazard," which endangered the economy. Bush's neoconservative, aka socialist for the rich, economic bailouts sealed the deal. Actually cutting spending and deregulating the economy is actually what needs to be done. This is what you get when people that know nothing about economics vote on economics.

Palin - just go build another bridge to someplace besides the media.

RE: Palin blames GOP's free spending for lost votes Statement of the obvious - she is such a genius.

I am sure Ms. Palin is a great media attraction when she comes to town, but I hope the next RNC chairmain gets a meeting with her soon and tells her to focus on governing her state. www.raisingtherepublic.wordpress.com

Sarah Palin has been "Quayled" by the media. Never mind that she has the highest approval rating of any governor, never mind that she was acting in the best interest of Alaskans when insisting that a dangerous and irresponsible man be relieved of policing authority (the personal aspects of the case are largely irrelevant), she is an excellent representative of the direction the Republican Party needs to go: back to its core conservative values. SetRockhead, she has nothing to take responsibility for in regard to the election. If not for Gov. Palin's presence on the ticket, McCain would have lost by double-digit margins. The reason you libs mock and pillory her is that she is an immediate threat to your newly acquired supremacy. She clearly defines and delineates the Conservative view, which will send you packing in 2010 and again in 2012. You Betcha.

OttotheMoron doesn't understand the first thing about economics. Deregulation isn't what he thinks it is. Deregulation is letting businesses and industries run their own sectors without the ignorant government telling them how to do it. For instance, the government should not be creating GSEs to skew the housing market in favor of poor people, who should not be able to buy houses they cannot afford. The government should not force lenders to lend to those with bad credit (Community Restoration Act). The government should not tax our competitive advantage away with second-highest in the world corp tax rate. The government's only responsibility is to ensure that proper accounting and competition practices are followed, and that the products produced are safe (SEC, FDA, and EPA). Therefore, it was meddling Democrats (Schumer, Dodd, Pelosi, Frank, Obama) who caused the economic meltdown, while Republicans were calling for more OVERSIGHT (not regulation) over FM/FM. Get your facts straight. Stop drinking the MSM Kool-Aid.

Excuse me, but when someone starts an article with negative connotations like "spotlight-grabbing star", I immediately expect a hatchet job. Governor Palin did an outstanding job during the campaign considering the situation when she was nominated. The issues that beat the Republicans were corruption in Washington, lack of understanding on the publics' part of the success of the surge in Iraq, and the economy tanking just after the convention. She had absolutely nothing to do with any of them. She is an intelligent and qualified governor who successfully took on the oil companies and the old-boy network. She challenged her own party to end corruption and do better for the people of Alaska. She got a fairer tax return from the oil companies and gave the money to her fellow Alaskans instead of the bureaucrats. I hope the Republican Party recognize that Governor Palin is a strong leader. We desperately need that leadership right now. Don't take potshots at her - help her.

Palin's right, although she couldn't say it during the campaign. McCain is one of the chief culprits of congress's out of control spending, along with EVERY democrat. WE NEED TERM LIMITS CONGRESS! If you won't do it, we'll have a national referendum and throw all of you out. The solution to our economic problems is NOT to become socialists - contrary to media goals and Obama.

Reagan had it right: Lower taxes, WAY lower spending, less regulation, strong defense. NO SOCIALISM. I'll say it again, we need term limits, and a presidential line-item veto (although I'm willing to wait on the latter until we no longer have a socialist president).

For "ottothewise", who really should be called "ottothestupid": Our civil rights have NOT been altered and I promise you, you cannot tell me of one instance where yours have. To the contrary, our rights were PROTECTED under Bush. And as for "Millions want habeas corpus back" what kind of moronic comment is that? It was not suspended (like under Lincoln or FDR) except perhaps for NON-citizen enemies who are NOT guaranteed it under our Constitution,no matter what the fruity ACLU may claim. Read the Constitution, stupid.

Sarah Palin is the best thing to hit a republican campaign since Ronald Reagan.I get real tired of republicans trying to tear this lady down instead of listening to what she has to say. I would,by far, prefer her over either of the two on the other side. She stood tall even with all the hate thrown her way and I for one was very proud of this fine American lady.

ScottVa wrote: For instance, the government should not be creating GSEs to skew the housing market in favor of poor people, who should not be able to buy houses they cannot afford. *********************************** By BOB TEDESCHI Published: August 3, 2008 WHILE subprime loans deeply penetrated low-income and minority groups, a new study suggests that more upper-income borrowers and more whites took out such loans than any other groups. Compliance Technologies, a lending-industry consultancy, last month analyzed more than 1.9 million subprime loans originated in 2006, the height of the subprime lending frenzy, and found that roughly 56 percent went to non-Hispanic whites. Affluent borrowers, those with annual income at least 120 percent of their given area’s median income, meanwhile, took out more than 39 percent of the loans. “I was surprised to see that non-Hispanic whites received more subprime loans than all minority groups combined,” said Maurice Jourdain-Earl, a founder and managing director of Compliance Technologies. ************************** ScottVa, you are wrong again but thats a habit with you, I do understand.

TruthSpeakerNone once again attempts to make his point with irrelevant and misinterpreted data. Take another slug of the MSM Kool-Aid, TruthTwister. If you will check your demographics from http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html, and compare them to your premise, you will find that 66% of Americans are White, 14% Hispanic, and ~13% Black. Therefore, the more homes were purchased, per capita, by non-white buyers (roughly 44%, according to your source). --------- “I was surprised to see that non-Hispanic whites received more subprime loans than all minority groups combined,” said Maurice Jourdain-Earl. --------- Why would anyone be surprised that the largest demographic purchased the most homes? So, now who is wrong? Now, who is either an idiot or a deceiver? TruthSpeakerNONE.