Throw in that she is the attentive mother of a Downs Syndrome child, and Gov of the largest state in the country (Alaska, home to several MHR folks), and she seems like a good pick.

McCain is too open borders for me…I am just sick and tired of Globalism. But since both Obama and McCain are globalists….

His name is Beau Biden, and in addition to being the Attorney General of Delaware, he’s a Captain in the Delaware National Guard. He’s scheduled to be deployed to Iraq in October.

for all we know, she asked for the ex-brother in law to be dismissed because he beat his wife into a pulp. who knows…

She is the most honest one out of the whole group, McCain, Obama, or Biden

this is a nonissue. They had to look pretty hard to try to dig this up, and every counter move by her administration has been executed perfectly.

She’s being investigated because she has gone after years of corruption in the state legislature, and they hate her for it. Both the state and federal justice departments have given her a clean bill of health. A few leaders in the state legislature want her out of the way in the worst way, and it isn’t working.

It is a republican controlled body, but that doesn’t matter. Unfortunately (as I am a republican), Alaska’s republican party is pretty crooked (see Ted Stevens, US Senate).

screw it. i’ll stick with my original plan of voting against all incumbents

…role in that system before using that approach. It doesn’t gell.

As for economics, this president inherited a (near) recession, then got hit by an attack on our country. We engaged in two conflicts after that. And still, despite all of that, the economy has endured. (Gas prices, while a pain for consumers, is not an economic indicator. If it were, I’d blame the folks that won’t let us drill or build refineries).

To be truly non-partisan though, part of the problem with our current economy is the excessive spending (republicans in congress).

Reagan was not anti-globalist. In fact, he often sparred with Pat Buchanan, a former Nixon and Reagan staffer (whom I knew personaly before he went off the deep end) on issues dealing with trade and military intervention.

Being anti-free trade is not a republican mantra (thus Paul’s rejection from conservatism), and being anti-interventionism doesn’t buy much favor from the veterans crowd. Fair or not, that Paul’s campaign drew a lot of support from people that think 9/11 was an inside job doesn’t help matters either.

But dismantling virtualy every US cabinet level agency (from the IRS to the CIA) is just plain hokey. Even a pure sales tax (which I endorse) would require an oversight and enforcement agency. The only real argument for a dismantled agency might be education, which is a state function.

The press may be hostile, but when you have as many supporters as the Cardinals have fans, something isn’t right.