That’s why I believe both Hillary and John appealed so much to their parties. They awoke the sleeping majority within their parties that want their party back. The moderates.

I think the majority of American’s are sick of the overspending, the outrageous earmarks that go to the few, as we struggle. The government growing like the blob to take over our everyday life. We don’t need all these government entities. We need less government. To do away with all this wasteful spending. To put control of the government back into the hands our forefather’s entrusted it to the American People.

I’d say 70% of the people we have up in Washington are working for no-one but themselves. Lining their own pockets. Notice no matter how bad it gets in America they always hold their hands out for the above average salary raises/increases. It’s both parties.

“Like a lot of my Democratic colleagues I was too slow to appreciate the recklessness of Fannie and Freddie. I defended their efforts to encourage affordable homeownership when in retrospect I should have heeded the concerns raised by their regulator in 2004. Frankly, I wish my Democratic colleagues would admit when it comes to Fannie and Freddie, we were wrong.

By the way, I wish my Republican colleagues would admit that they missed the early warning signs, that Wall Street deregulation was overheating the securities market and promoting dangerously lax lending practices. When it comes to the debacle in our capital markets, there is much blame to go around for both sides.”

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,431209,00.html

You know it’s not just the older men, when we were watching the debates my 5 year old grandson looked at me and said “Who’s she? She’s pretty.” I must have looked shocked (Ok I was probably standing there with my mouth agape) because he stopped for a minute then added but you’re prettier grandma. He knows which side of the bread he gets his butter on. Talk about a quick save and from a 5 year old.

Why else would he have gotten religion now - all of a sudden?

If as democrats you want our party back…a vote for McCain/Palin 08 = a chance to vote Clinton 2012

If this blog had a different tone or flavor when Hillary was still in the running, (and before), and now it sounds completely different, I can see how that could be a little hard to take for a long time poster.

On another thread a PUMA said they admired how Palin was resilient and strong in the face of all the abuse and malignant attacks against her and her innocent family. I could relate to that admiration for someone on the opposite side, because that’s how I came to admire Hillary towards the end of her run. I was so happy she was soldiering on, winning primaries in a spectacular way to the very end. I really thought she had a chance to pull off the capture of the Dem nomination, and I wanted her to because it would have knocked n0bama out for good.

But it wasn’t to be. I was always for McCain, even when those in my party were dismissive of him, but who knows, if Hillary had been the nominee she may have won me over.