Bush and his friends squandered wealth.
Fiscal conservatives criticized the Bush administration very much on this.
Obama is taking drastic action needed to save the economy
Depends; the stimulus was one thing, but he has been planning spend enormous amounts of money from the get-go. And I think he is nuts if he thinks his carbon cap-and-trade bill is going to help the economy and actually create jobs.
When you are all the way right, everything looks left.
Or one could easily say when you're over to the left, anything else looks to the "Right."
The Right is ultimately about freedom. Anything that infringes upon freedom is a variant of the Left. What many call a "moderate" is perhaps a Republican that believes in social programs, or "doing good with other people's money." Only this is a farce, because in order to get that money, you have to take it from the people. In other words, almost anything that calls for redistribution of wealth, social programs, etc...is grounded ultimately in violence and coercion and infringing on freedom at its core.
Many liberals believe in God as well. No problem; it is a classic mistake made by Republicans.
I never said leftists do not believe in god. Barack Obama believes in god.
The difference is that they don't try to put religious extremists in power.
Yes they do, just their religion is government and the environment. This whole carbon cap-and-trade nonsense is a ramming of religion down this country's throat. It is based on a theory that is completely unproven. We do not know if the Earth is warming conclusively. We do not know if warming will be bad if it is occurring. We do not know, if warming is occurring, if it is from the Earth itself, influence from the sun, or humans, and so forth.
Or like when Nancy Pelosi said in a
Vogue interview, "I view my role in government as an extension of my role as a mother." In other words, she's a tyrant technically, she believes the people are sheep that need a big, maternal government run by the likes of her to look after them.
A loving embrace from which one cannot escape is still a form of tyranny remember. This is completely opposite of the conservative view, which is that the people are the adults, and the government is like putting your sixteen year-old in charge of the family finances. If you don't watch them closely, they'll spend extraordinary amounts of money, then when you try to criticize them and reign them in, they'll act offended and tell you they know better, even though you're the one making the money.
It is a result of fear and 40 years of Republican denials and obfuscations.
Environmentalism as religion is nothing new. The Nazis held an almost religious view of the environment, and the environmental zealots who want to control everything everyone can do are neo-Nazi in their worldview.
In the religious variant of environmentalism, you have the period of peace, in which humans lived in harmony with nature (akin to Adam and Eve), then you have the first sins, when humans started manipulating nature to their own benefit (akin to eating of the fruit), then you have the coming doomsday in which Nature will go haywire and we will all be destroyed and die for our sins against the Earth (akin to Revelations).
We talk about Charles Manson too, but that doesn't mean he is popular.
Palin is very popular though. That's why she is such a threat to the Left. Otherwise, no one would care about her.
Apparently when she was a would-be vice President. The fact is that to most of us, Palin is a joke,
Yes, and you're wrong. Palin is no joke. Don't let your ideology rule your thinking. She is far too intelligent and too much of a threat to be any joke to the left. Now a guy like Biden, he is a joke. He actually still has Presidential aspirations. He is actually naive enough to think the Democrats would make him a front-runner. Barack Obama was also easily a joke in terms of knowledge of the issues; he was not any joke however as a candidate who stood a good chance of being elected.
Having watched a bit of her speech, though, I must say, the Couric interviews were not an anomaly, rather, when the woman actually follows a cogent line of thought is out of the norm. She needs speech writers. And coaches.
I wouldn't make fun of anyone's speaking ability right now when we have a President who cannot speak without a Tele-Prompter and a Vice President who seems to make a gaffe per week when speaking.
She was such a polarizing figure for the GOP, probably why quite a few moderate GOP members are defecting to the Democrats or Independents. Imagine her going on speaking tours further tarnishing the reputation of the GOP. I hope she is taking time off to seriously look at what she supports and and tell herself whether changes are needed to better herself as a politician. Palin needs to immerse herself in foreign policy affairs, gain the knowledge to speak eloquently on different topics and stop portraying herself as an all out 'hockey mom'.
