The *REAL* unity ticket:  McCain/Fonda '08.

I agree we should spend more on public works (infra-structure to wit roads, bridges, etc.) and we have monies collected for this purpose -- they just need to be spent properly and for that specific purpose.

I do not agree that re-distributing the money earned by producers and investors is the way to a robust economy and I further do not agree that advocation of same entails the denigration or casting of blame on the lowest and most alienated sub-groups in society.

The more you benefit not working, the more non-workers you will end up with.

McCain's "being honest" about wanting to help Osama bin Laden bankrupt America for generations to come. 

Collectivism, socialism. Those are just two inflammatory buzz words that have nothing to do with what happens anywhere in America , outside of Amish Country. Even in Israel, the kibbutz is dead. What working people advocate is moving to more level playing fields in the business world by constraining the cartel reality we live in today. Anti-trust regulation was in place for a reason during much of the 20th Century. Most Americans are extremely tired of polarization and want to work with one another on finding solutions to difficult issues. Casting repeated blame on the lowest and most alienated sub-groups in society does not solve any thing. Faliling to pay a fair share of burden for infrastructure does not solve the many problems most of our communities are facing with a swiftly deteriorating web of public works.

Go, Obama!

McCain is just being honest

Perhaps to a fault

HRC will have us there just as long as she will become OBE once in office

Obama might be just naive enough not to

But not on war.  McCain plans to keep us in Iraq until Osama wins.

Adam, I just don't believe collectivism & socialism equates to a good economy.

Bush just spent too much (no veto pen and expensive war)

One thing about McCain -- He will exercise veto -- especially on pork!

I will NEVER forgive Bush for one thing -- giving voice to socialists re economic matters by allowing monteary policy to allow runaway spending and massive debt load!

Ain't far enough left yet.  But getting there.

DueterRomney  won't get elected in 08!

Country is too far left.

McCain is lessor evils.

And it you don't like that concept

Then if you get the big C, don't opt for Chemo or Rad

Sometimes the options aren't great, but better than the alternative!

If the key issue for voters this election is the economy, self interest would seem to indicate a repudiation of Republican fiscal policies. This Presidential election campaign is certainly not the first where the conservative party mismanaged the nation's economy on a grand scale leading to widespread losses for the average citizenry. No one needs to invoke the fallout from the hands-off approach administered by Harding-Coolidge-Hoover in the 1920s as an example, however accurate the invocation of malfeasance would be. No we simply need to remind ourselves of the Reagan-Bush-Bush2 fiscal quagmires of allowing conglomerates and Wall Street investment crooks to fleece America and put working people on notice that what is best for a minute portion of the population is not necessarily good for the whole.

In the 1980s there were two recessions that lasted approximately a year and a half each during Reagan's tenure at the helm. I'm not sure how  many of you remember the junk bond fiasco and the ensuing Savings and Loan meltdown, but for three of Reagan's eight years the economy staggered amid scandal and corruption. If any is interested about the rampant excesses of corporate greed you can always read Barbarians At The Gate by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar. The authors covered the RJR Nabisco takeover by a private equity firm for the Wall Street Journal during the 1980s. HBO made a movie based on the book starring James Garner, Jonathon Pryce and Fred Thompson.

Bush 1 had the recession of 1991-1992, which effectively swept him out of office, but American voters, with the cumulative memory of a gnat, allowed his son to take over in 2001, which was met with an immediate recession. I know many will paint the recession as the fallout from the dot.com weirdness of the Clintan Administration. But it was Clinton's Treasury Secretary Leavitt who went before a Republican controlled Congress to advocate seriously examining the closeknit relationships between companies and their auditors, and the exhorbitant fee structures being used to create initial public offerings on Wall Street. Leavitt was summarily dismissed by the Republican Congress overseers. No oversight led to more abuses and so we ended up having all major accounting firms wiped out amid a wave of insider corruption with a recession as the sad saga we had to live with.

We know where we are today. We know the sub-prime and credit story is the same hands-off approach to corporate profit taking at the expense of the American economy. Sure, you can vote for Willard "Mitt" Romney, after all it is the Year of the Rat. Please know before you place your vote that Willard inherited a bunch of his money and proceeded into the private equity world at Bain Capital at about the same time Henry Kravis and his company were becoming the Barbarians At The Gate.  Romney and his pals in the private equity  world  have ravaged  American business in the pursuit of enormous fee structures paid by borrowing against the very companies they have acquired. As wages stagnate and benefits are stripped away from hard working Americans, think for a moment about who has actually been a key force in this development. It is not as though we have not seen this story before, and that we are unaware of who the players in the continuing swindle have been.

A vote for Romney is a vote for depression economics.

Just what we need, more Republicanism.

Not!

We barely survived the past eight years of incompetent Republican administration which has brought the country to the brink of economic disaster, waged a needless war, thumbed stubborn collective nose at the constitution.....

The list of incompetency goes on.

Where have you been, bonnyloon, asleep?

Romney comes from the very wolfish corporacracy that was left to watch the chicken coop while Republicans were busily occupied with less significant matters like abortion instead of protecting and improving the lives of living children needing medical care, good education and even food.

Time to wake up, bonnyloony, and smell the coffee.

Republican principles, indeed!

Just what are these principles you're so enamored with?

Are they the ones that call for "less government?"

Yeah, well that's what you got.

Republicans didn't intrude into the corporate affairs of the industries which have been stealing the country's chickens with impunity while the administration fiddled off key and off point.

It's been great, huh?

For its gross mismanagement the Republican party deserves to go down the tubes and stay there for a long, long time or at least until the damage it's done to the country has been repaired.

If you really want to save this country from its collective self, vote Democratic, vote Independent, vote Libertarian or don't vote at all, but whatever you do, vote anything but Republican.

Come on Mitt.

I waited to vote.  I wanted to see who was left.  My first choice has dropped out of the race, so I'm glad I waited.

 I voted for the Huckmeister, but Romney would also make a fine president.