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Sarah Palin is the best chance for conservatives in 2012. Get behind her – if she is willing to run again.

I like Palin, but if we can’t do better than her in 2012, time to start planning for 2016.

Adam Smith was for economic regulation. The GOP is against it.

Dude, the election is over, and your guy won. You can stop with the lies now.

Jeff Flake has long been a voice in the Republican wilderness, opposing profligate spending and big-government “conservatism”.

yep. i live in his district. we would like to keep him around for quite a while longer …

Jeff Flake, Michale Steele, Sarah Palin, Bobby Jindal: the future of the Conservative Republican Party. JC Watts should come out of ‘retirement’ as well.

jerseyman on November 5, 2008 at 1:38 PM

I’m Proud Texan, and I approve this message.

Democrats managed to get the children of all ages to vote for once.

Hopeychangey. Feel good because “you care”, but get your $500 “tax cut”. Punish Bush because he didn’t give you stuff. Get back at the man. Be like juvenile delinquents and be proud of it. Talk big. Stick it to the adults.

Of course, the opposite of that is about to occur.

Not so fast Indaythinker. We passed an employer sanctions law here is AZ two years ago that has teeth. The attempt to get that law yesterday via a referendum dubbed ‘employer amnesty’ went down to defeat. Estimates are that tens of thousands of illegals have abandoned AZ for parts unknown in the past 18 months. Sherrif Joe just raided Mesa City Hall in the middle of the night and arrested the entire cleaning crew. City of Mesa knew their subcontractor was hiring illegals and did nothing to stop it. Joe did!

A private bank can make loans with its own money, but accepts the risk for those who cannot repay, so they establish criteria for approving loans, usually a maximum payment / income ratio. In effect, they regulate themselves.

If a Government agency is set up to be the “lender of last resort” with taxpayer money at risk, then the Government has the right to regulate it.

The problem with Fannie and Freddie was that they had a Government guarantee in case of default, but the profit incentive on the upside with no downside risk. This is the worst possible recipe for reckless behavior. Then Democrats (in 1999) forced them to make risky loans–and McCain and Republicans tried to limit that practice. Both policies constitute “regulation”, but there’s a difference between responsible regulation (as a private bank would do) and irresponsible regulation, forcing a bank to make risky loans.

Obama went out and blamed the crisis on Republican “deregulation”, which wasn’t accurate, but he was never called on it.

As for Flake and other true conservatives, we need to adopt the triple agenda of Ronald Reagan–low taxes/low spending, social conservatism (pro-life/pro-family), and strength in national security and foreign policy. President Bush and the 2005-06 Congress went off the rails on spending, and Bush mis-handled the war in Iraq in 2005-06.

We need to better articulate the low-tax policy on corporations–it’s NOT to reward the “rich oil companies”, but low corporate taxes on multi-national companies incite them to invest HERE and create American jobs, and prevent American jobs from going overseas. Taxing corporations more destroys jobs and handouts to the poor makes everyone poorer. Republicans dragged Bill Clinton kicking and screaming into signing welfare reform–Obama wants to undo that under the guise of “tax cut”.

We also need to find some way of winning urban voters, who seem to think Democrats are better for them, even though their lot hasn’t improved under Democrats. Use the Giuliani model for New York, to cut crime and encourage bussinesses to come into cities. How many states do we lose in Presidential and Senate elections because our leads in 50 rural counties are wiped out by 80% Democrat votes in one big city? We need to get Giuliani-like mayors elected in big cities, then let them run for the Senate after they clean up their city.