The one thing that has annoyed me from the start is this business that John McCain and Sarah Palin are the canidates for change.  The last eight years has demonstrated that the tickle down theory DOES NOT WORK.  The Republican philosophy that the market can and will regulate itself is false.  This was demonstrated by the WORST finanical meltdown in HISTORY. 

How can John McCain, who supported the Bailout plan ( by the way sisn't it classic republican philosophy to have the government step in to fix the free market ) say that he will fix things in Washington?  He promised the bill would pass, he suspeneded his Presidental Campaign to do so, and before he even got to D.C. there was a tenitive agreement. Then it falls through, a new plan is drafted, and the bill passes in the Senate.  Then the House Republicans, the supposed badasses, don't pass the bill because of a Speech?  It wasn't as partisan as Fake News would like you to think.  So much for putting your country first.

Granted, The Bailout bill was flawed and needed to be redrawn, but it went from 3 pages to 450 pages.  That is a WTF moment.

So tell me, how does John McCain plan to fix the economy when "the fundementals of the economy are strong"?  Change the definition all you like, but you still screwed up there.

  In the VP debate Sarah Palin contridicted herself.  She went on and on about how she will provide the "oversight Americans want and deserve" from the Federal Governement, and then ranted about how evil big government is!  Her state has a population the size of Memphis.  How can she say she has experience when she worked with a canvass that small.

She didn't even answer most of her questions!  To be fair, Biden dodged his fair share, but most of his answers made sense.  He didn't dare I say, flip-flop positions in five minutes.

How can a party that has controled the Senate and House for ten of tweleve years, been placed in the Whitehouse, not elected, eight years, presided over the biggest increase of governement ever put themselves off as the Canidates for change?

Just out of curiosity - which ones did you feel Biden didn't answer?

I confess, I saw him answer, then go where he wanted to go with it - generally mentioning that "BTW - this problem stems from a George Bush policy that John McCain supported wholeheartedly until, oh, about two o'clock", but if he actually sidestepped one he did it so slickly it got past me.

Now, the one I notice Palin *did* answer, and it concerned me, was the one where Gwen Ifill (sp?) asked what you had learned/changed your mind about since working in office . . . and Palin's response was that she had never been forced to compromise herself. That one bothered me - taking her at her word, to learn soomething or change your mind is *not* perceived by her as a matter of improving yourself, but as an issue of being corrupted by the world.

That really bothers me,

Jonnan

My mother is a member of the most corrupt union in the country, OMG!!!11111  She's totally an unbiased source of information.  You're about as objective as a hole in the wall.  Do you actually bother to look things up when you already know them, or do you just stick to educating yourself when it's not something you have a preformed opinion on?  When my mother starts talking crazy shit about something, I either look into it myself or ignore her.  When it was crazy shit about the evils of D&D(yes, it's embarrassing, no I'm not enough of a dweeb to play table top rpg's, she was distressed that you cast spells in Warhammer), I didn't run to the nearest wackjob site to see if anyone had been possesed by Satan after playing a game.  Treat your liberal nonsense the same way I treat my conservative nonsense.

Out of service rates, Mexican trucks driving on US soil have better track records.

Accident rates, Mexican trucks driving on US soil have better track records.

Insurance, Mexican trucks driving on US soil have more insurance coverage.

First, the state owns the resources.  Yes, Alaska owns oil rights on all state and federal land.  It's in the statehood pact, not that the rest of the country has bothered to hold to that deal, ANWR anyone?  Gotta love protected permafrost and mosquito farms.

Second, she appears to be a little vindictive.  The oil companies have been screwing us on a gas pipeline, the monopoly they've formed was refusing to build it so they could get a better deal on the royalties.  When she got in, she went around them, hired an outside firm from Canada to build the pipeline, and stuck it to them with a windfall profits tax.  I don't agree with windfall taxes, however I do see the merits in punishing companies for blackmail, bribery, and forming a cabal to start with.  I'd prefer jail time and civil suits though.  Unfortunately, even if she's a bit of a bitch, which appears likely, all the other corrupt officials and the companies buying them are in severe need of equal treatment right now.  Vindictive or bought and paid for...  Is it a hard call for you?

Third, currently residing in Oklahoma, I have no check.  Sorry, you'll have to try something else to see if I have a heart.

Stop reading biased information sources regardless of how many times they're proven wrong.  After I factored in your typo, I still spent an hour looking for any information on the city administrator position being a result of political pressure.  There is none.  Even the sites that claim it are all just running off the same unsourced story, which has numerous other verified factual errors.  Not that the NYT bothers to correct them.

For the Senate, you need help.  McCain is left of center on almost everything.  Do you even pay attention to the bills they're passing?  The bailout passed with flying colors, even most liberals can't stomach that level of government intervention.  They've grossly expanded the budget every year, adding pork, pork and more pork.  Health care initiatives, immigration, that obscenity of an energy bill that's paying the agricultural industry to pollute more and starve people while doubling the price of corn.  If the republicans really were mostly conservatives, and the democrats really were mostly moderate, they wouldn't be passing flaming hippy liberal shit bills all the time and giving us preposterous budget deficits even when revenue is at a record high.  Instead, we haven't had a single attempt to block any of it even when they were the majority.

I guess this is what happens when there isn't an actual conservative running something, the wishy washy moderates pissing away money left and right in an attempt to survive a primary bid against someone remotely honest end up with the label and the whole spectrum goes to hell in a lopsided socialist handbasket.

Edit: I didn't seen any Biden question dodging, just the usual Biden problem.  Unless you consider lying to be dodging, that doesn't seem an unreasonable viewpoint.  He does have a serious issue when it comes to honesty.  Palin dodging pissed me off though, ignoring a dumb gotcha question sure, but skipping a legitimate question just to throw a barb is juvenile even when accurate.

Psychoak, for awhile now I've been under the impression you really don't have the foggiest notion of what you're talking about.

The people that actualy deal with something day to day have an opinion on something, and it offends psychoak, and he starts foaming at the mouths screaming about liberals lying about everything.

The people of Wasilla don't agree with your assessment of Sarah Palin. Get over it.

Truck Drivers don't agree with your assessment of the state of repair of Mexican Trucks that come into the U.S.A. Get over it.

People that study the economy don't agree with your assessment of how to run an economy. Get over it.

Professional fact checkers don't agree woth your assessment of the honesty of Joe Biden. Get over it.

Heck, for that matter, the Republican Party doesn't agree with your definition of conservative.

Guess what - Get over it.

Jonnan

Fact check organizations like what, moveon.org?  Biden's made more false statements than a neural net poetry generator in his tenure as a Senator.  The guy makes shit up on the fly half the time, he's almost as bad as Hillary claiming sniper fire.

Try factcheck.org and politifact.com, they aren't perfect but they're probably more accurate than any of your sources are if you can't tell Biden plays fast and loose with the truth.  Those evil republicans aren't the only two lying morons in the race.

For your mother, maybe if she were supported by facts instead of refuted by them across the board, maybe I wouldn't blame it on her belonging to an organization that doesn't like competition.  Consider it a blessing that I assume she has an inherent bias due to her position in life instead of just being a racist and not liking them damn wetbacks like us evil republicans.

For Palin not being liked by Wasilla, ahah.  Ahahah.  What rock are you hiding under?  Even MSNBC isn't lying about her poll numbers.  Before she was picked to be VP she was the second coming up there, she's never had bad polling, and was consistently above 80%.  Even running against Obama and pissing off a third of the population with attacks, she's still riding around 70%.

As far as the economists go, idiot again.  There are more schools of thought than Keynesian economics.  Keynes didn't even create what's being called Keynesian economics.  If they weren't populating the liberal colleges while people that can actually make money run businesses in the real world, it would already be a dead school.  So many of his theories on government intervention have been proven false at this point that it's not even funny.  He's out there with Malthus in the really fucking wrong category.

As far as the republicans go...  There's a reason they keep losing seats.  Maybe when they agree with my definition of conservative they'll do better eh?  They lost their base in 98 when, after dumping Gingrich, who torpedoed himself with his mouth, they went liberal and played nice with the loony toons on the other side.

By all means, yes, lets try Factcheck.org.

WTH happened to the formatting?

Fixed.

The NAFTA-ites have a firmer grip on reality.  Your job is going to disappear anyway.  Trucking is inefficient.  It excells in one area, small scale shipping.  Interstate shipping, by definition, isn't small scale.  Trucks are for sending crap from the big city to the small putz towns around it that can't justify a locomotive pulling rail cars at a hundred times your efficiency.  The nature of progress is to remove inefficiencies and replace them with improvements.  Rail transport is more cost effective in every way for large scale shipping, faster, cheaper, energy efficient, lower labor requirements.  The long haul trucker is already dead and it has nothing to do with free trade.

As a liberal with a superior intellect that analyzes and forms educated opinions based on the facts, this should be obvious.

Edit: Brilliant, I clicked reply...

Jonnan, read that paragraph where I sent you to the fact checkers, the last sentence isn't exactly a glowing review of the opposition candidates.  I kinda want McCain to drop dead say... yesterday.  It's really too bad the fucker had the stones to pick torture over early release, it's hard to hate pond scum for being pond scum after such a display of character.  Read back through the checks too, your bias screams on a couple of them.  The fact checkers aren't perfect either.  Occasionally they'll fact check something, prove it one way with the evidence, and then decide the other in their editorial on it.  I can usually see the process that gets them there, but it's always ugly when they do.

If I may Kryo, was there anything specific I mangled in my post that would have caused that, or did it just get corrupted going into the DB somehow?

Psychoak - we already knew they're not perfect - I'm just amazed because 'not perfect' is the mildest thing you've ever had to say about a source that completely contradicts your premise- {G}.

Jonnan

You quoted out of the middle of a webpage, and the html end tags left dangling in the middle of that quoted segment closed those here prematurely. For future reference, paste into notepad first to strip hidden formatting (If you use firefox, there's a copy as plain text addon), then recopy and paste into your reply.

Ah thank you!;

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/134 if anyone else wants a copy.

Jonnan

You assume I'm busily humping McCain's leg just because I'm hoping Obama gets assassinated by a crazy dixicrat clansman when he gets elected.  I'm just tired of all the bullshit surrounding Palin when she's the vp pick against a fucking moron for a presidential pick with less experience and more unsavory ties, gotta love all those present votes in a chief executive.  This election is a choice between Satan and Hitler from my point of view.  There's the McCain Fiengold Incumbent Protection Act that goes about criminal activity in the ass backwards fashion of making something completely reasonable illegal to prevent an already illegal act instead of just prosecuting for the illegal act and throwing the fuckers in jail.  There's the umpteenth amnesty bill he's intent on pushing through congress even after we shot it down, miraculously, knowing full well that hell would freeze over before they carried out the security aspects and actually shut down further illegal immigration.  I've a multitude of other so called "compromises" that I want his head on a pike for.  Mainly I just severely dislike having to respect the guy in spite of his frequent trampling of rights.

Then of course, outside his political views, the guy just flat fuckin pisses me off.  I'm Mr. Straight Talk!  Um... you assholes over there, stop telling the truth about my opponent!  My own campaign is completely capable of lying about him in ways that don't touch on his commie/fascist/racist/terrorist laden personal life!  Oh, and his bought and paid for status in connection to the GSE's I'm going to pretend failed because of greedy wallstreet(did anyone know wallstreet was running the mortgage companies?) instead of our housing initiatives I was a fucking shithead and let through a republican controlled Senate so ACORN could extort banks into making bad loans and start a dangerous precident!

Please do not assume this individual's beliefs and behavior are representative of most or all conservatives.