Well, at least I finally converted you to to Golden Mitt. I may just write his name in on my ballot.
(As far as the golden plates go-some Mormon beliefs are pretty silly-but-then again, I take the Bible as truth, including a passage in which a donkey talks to his master-so you know-to each his own)
As to whether or not Rush/Hannity has too much power within the ranks, I'm not sure. I am confident unvarnished, unsantized truth can still escape and that there is room for intellectual development. I tend to dismiss the argument about conservative "projections" onto blank-slate Palin, because I think Palin is a little more sophisticated than that. (Although, it is drop-dead funny when liberals (not you)(you will be converted to the ways of Rush one day, too) say this, because that is exactly what they are doing with Obama). Palin was picked because she is everything McCain isn't-conservative, charimastic, energetic, etc. In that regard she is a fabulous choice. I like the selection to be honest.
To add on to your earlier point-the continued invocation of Reagan's name by not really conservative Republicans who in no way govern, conduct themselves or act like Reagan is insulting to my intelligence. Reagan built a mighty political legacy, and they turned around and screwed it up.
One point on Greenspan. His comments made it sound like America had a well running mixed economy, turned it over to greedy bankers and KABOOM-crisis. What a sham. Regulation is completely unrelated to the current problems. Nobody seems to mention federal pressure to issue minority home owner loans to suspect families. Nobody cares about inefficient and even corrupt business practices in the lending industries. Nobody cares about exploitative affect of flexible rate mortgages. Government regulation gave us those things for god's sake. Good grief he has it backwards. If Greenspan has reason to question his "free-market principles", that is because he supported a heavily mixed economy from the get-go-I thought this was already understood way back in the '90s.
