Conservative Cabal

And was crushed by fear and panic and a well-meaning clod of a government.

When is the bottom coming? I somehow don’t think we’ve reached it yet. And although I don’t think it’s necessarily Obama’s (or McCain’s) fault that the crisis is as bad as it is, I honestly don’t think it’s helping Wall Street or any investors to know that, no matter what, someone who thinks government intervention is the answer will be the next president of the U.S.A.

If government intervention was the answer, wouldn’t the buy-out of Fannie and Freddie have helped? Wouldn’t the $700 billion “rescue” as McCain recently called it, have helped? And neither have. The market correction will not be stopped, and is worse because of government fiddling. Stop. It. Now. Haven’t you done enough, Uncle Sam?

Why are we rewarding bad behavior — by banks AND numb-skulled politicians and unrealistic people who think they can put everything on credit card. Free money!

I respect McCain for attempting to lead on this issue, but he’s leading in the wrong direction. (Of course, raising taxes on small businesses and others as Obama would do is much worse). Why should we as taxpayers directly buy these mortgages? Why.

Perhaps we should stick with the very very … generous current law (a Democrat bill which is significant government intervention in and of itself) , that does help people who want to stay in their homes, but not those who are simply flipping properties or who have already given up.

Our friend Angel asks around. Well done, Angel!

So yeah this has been around for a couple weeks, but it bears watching again…

Was that the best line of this debate?

I didn’t see the whole thing yet but what I did see did not impress me. The media had built it up as something McCain had to hit out of the park, and this was dutifully repeated by pundits on both sides. He didn’t, but did we expect him to? And then what was that about buying up everyone’s homes to provide security? WHAT?

Meanwhile, Obama’s campaign continues to lie about his positions, selling them as more centrist than they are.  (I just watched a TV ad about Obama’s healthcare plan suggesting that he is not for socialized medicine. Right. Of course, that’s exactly where his proposals would land us!) But whatever, no one reads anymore, and they think they want change, and this guy, as a friend recently said, is like an actor playing a black man running for President. Can voters raised in this culture resist that?

Andy McCarthy over at the Corner says the same things I’m feeling, but rather more strongly…

I’ve often said over the last six years, what is the Left going to do in 2009, when there is no George Bush left in office to hate? What will they do?  Will they be like White Sox fans, whose initial response after winning the World Series a few years back was, “See Cubs fans! You didn’t win! Ha ha! We hate you!” And continue the anti-Bush rhetoric into 2012? That’s what’s called Sore Winning.

So W will be out in January, but the fear is ever present with liberals that Americans will act on their inherent homophobic, racist attitudes (liberals “love” America, just not Americans) and vote another eeeeevil Republican into office. Those heartless, hopeless, ignorant rubes could screw everything up, and they must be stopped!

Then entered Sarah Palin, and the fear went into overdrive. Dems are still very confident they’ll win, but there is fear there because she energizes middle-class, grassroots conservatives and so they HATE Sarah Palin. All the energy and venom previously directed to Bush is now aimed at the governor of Alaska, who they had never heard of before Labor Day.

And I have yet to hear one really reasonable argument against her being VP, a “heart-beat away from the presidency”. I have friends saying Todd Palin is giving goatees a bad name, and they wish to shave theirs. Others are alarmed by the occasional winking, which Palin used to very good effect in the recent debate. Keep it up, sister  ;-)

Of course, it’s so incredibly, almost childishly obvious that liberals are afraid of a strong,  attractive woman who knows how to use her femininity, and in defense of conservative principles no less!  I think her winking made some men take notice, and it made others uncomfortable. Maybe they don’t want to admit that they find her attractive at all because they are telling themselves that there is no possible way they could like someone with her views.

And isn’t that what we should be talking about, really? Call me naive, but come on.  From Joe Biden to Billy Bragg (ugh), I have heard for over a year that this is an election where Americans can really make a change.

Think about what that really means. Let’s just stop and think. Change is only as good as what it changes to.

Sarah Palin is, simply, a great role model for American women. She IS strong. She IS independent. She IS feminine.

Her lack of “experience” is a reasonable issue that reasonable people can debate, but the same can be said of Obama, and as NR said recently, the question of his experience is … more pressing.