1) Electoral college exists to prevent big states from determining the outcome of every Presidential election. I can't tell you how much I love teaching high school ____ing civics to grown adults. Truly ____ing confidence inspiring. Almost makes it hard to blame the politicians.
2) The Republicans were not the party that caused the financial meltdown. Bush actually tried to stop the sub-prime racket in 2006 and was assured by Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) that everything was fine. Over the next year, Frank's cookie jars (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) sold a trillion dollars worth of sub-prime mortgages.
It wasn't credit default swaps or derivatives that crashed the market. It was a trillion dollars worth of loans that the debtors could not afford, bundled into derivatives that subsequently failed when those mortgages went belly up. Global implications followed as those derivatives had been traded globally.
I'm no economist (if there is one here, please correct me if I'm wrong---anonymous sympathizers need not apply) but I know what happens when a market already seeded with bad mortgages gets a trillion dollar boost in more bad mortgages.
3) Bail-outs. Now we come to where both parties start to become indistinguishable. Both of them claim to be acting in the interest of the nation. Both of them think that their protections are what keep the country functioning. Both of them believed that stopping major financial houses from suffering bankruptcy would prevent broader economic destruction. Both of them were wrong.
You'd have to listen to crackpots who don't believe in a managed economy to get to the conclusion that repeatedly dumping $700 billion checks down the drain of companies that were too dishonest to stay out of the affordable housing pyramid in the first place, to get an answer that resembled the right way to deal with 2008. You'd have to believe that a free economy was the best route to stability to know that giving away all of that money would have zero positive effect, and inevitably, a protracted negative effect. The Fed had to monetize that debt twice (third round is on the way) and enforce a retardedly low interest rate to make it look like it did something more than erase so many hundreds of billions of dollars from the nation's wealth.
4) Since then, the greater mass of the Republican party ranks have actually turned against the concept of an economy controlled by Washington. Unfortunately for them, they're under the impression that capitalism (a free economy, and by free I mean not controlled) is somehow a Christian ideology, and are incapable of refraining from associating freedom with their personal moral obsessions. However, it does not change the fact that they understand that the problem with this country so far as money is concerned is government spending.
Call them crazy as many times as you like, it does not change the fact that, in three years, their detractors' smartest _______ in the room increased the federal deficit four times the amount that George Bush did in his full eight years. How? Because Barack Obama did get something done. Ignoring all of the petty totalitarian functions he added across the board, he successfully damned one-sixth of this economy (the healthcare industry) to the exact same economic model by which the housing market was destroyed.
5) Ron Paul was the only Republican candidate with the credentials to make any headway in solving the problem at the root of this country's problems. He's not going to be President. However, the candidate that will be representing the right in November is so far removed from the mentality of Barack Obama and the Occupier left that it takes roughly four braincells to understand who should be the next President, given the options.
...that is, if the voters in this country can put aside their greed for the unearned that got them in this situation in the first place. I have little faith in that, and in the event that the entitlement zombies get what they want in November, they will get what they deserve, and richly.
Really? 
