I mean, you think the other side would be obsessed with Palin minutia (if she were a Dem)? How about good 'ole Salon? The proof is below (and that list is not exhaustive). Salon is manic on their coverage of Palin. The real joke is their nit picking. Kieth, you just indicted your employer...

Today:

Sarah Palin's wasteful ways

Tuesday:

Sarah Palin's powerful "First Dude"

Monday:

The pastor who clashed with Palin

Sunday:

"Palin pandemonium" in Nevada

Other days:

"Hockey Moms for Truth"

Today in Palin

Palin quickies

Palin, like Rove before her, stayed off government e-mail servers

Wonder Woman on Sarah Palin

Alaska legislators sue to stop Troopergate investigation

Palin admits truth on Bridge to Nowhere

Palin vs. Gibson, the rematch

Palin flip-flops on global warming

Palin's choice = women's choice?

is criticizing the left? That's not what I am getting... Maybe you're not getting my point.

"Well, that does explain why Republicans continue to vote for criminals and the corrupt."

Please, please, please give it a break! They are ALL criminals and ALL corrupt. From Rangel, to Delay, to Frank, to Bush to all of them. So please lay off this crap about how evil the Rs are and how saintly the Ds are. Anyone that actually believes that is just plain stupider than stupid. And I am NOT a republican. I hold them ALL in contempt.

This sums it up for me:

"A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker."

Henry Louis Mencken.

What I find tragic, is not that you hate the republicans, but that you do not equally despise the equally despicable democrats. As one old man put it: Where is your brain, boy!? Grow up and get a grip on reality. If you are gonna root for your team, I guess that is OK, but please don't cross the line of actually believing what they say about themselves, or anything else, for that matter.

Lynx, you will find nowhere, in any of my posts a positive remark about any politician. Nowhere. My remark about Palin has been echoed by many confirmed lefties on this forum. Salon's attempts to make her look bad are pathetic, and counterproductive. That does not mean that I am a fan.

Your response does indicate, however, that you simply cannot admit that there could possibly be a rational person out there that is not a cheerleader for the democrats. Sorry my friend, there are plenty of us who can not stomach either side, including H.L. Mencken (well, technically speaking, he's dead, but you get my point).

As to what I think a solution to our political issues would be, here is a start. Make it illegal for the central government to spend money on anything but the strictest interpretation of a common defense, and to regulate interstate commerce. When you take away a politician's ability to purchase votes, you remove the bulk of his ability to perpetuate corruption. It has not always been this way.

Read the account of Davy Crockett and charitable government spending. You can find one version here http://www.neusysinc.com/columnarchive/colm0009.html

is it goes both ways. Yawn.

1. On Iraq, Obama said Thursday that his upcoming trip there might lead him to refine his promise to quickly remove U.S. troops from the war.

2. He now supports broader authority for the government's eavesdropping program and legal immunity for telecommunications companies that participated in it, after opposing a similar bill last year.

3. After the Supreme Court overturned the District of Columbia's gun ban, the handgun-control proponent said he favors both an individual's right to own a gun as well as government's right to regulate ownership.

4. Obama became the first major-party candidate to reject public financing for the general election after earlier promises to accept it.

5. He not only embraced but promised to expand Bush's program to give more anti-poverty grants to religious groups, a split with Democratic orthodoxy.

6. He objected to the Supreme Court's decision outlawing the death penalty for child rapists, even though he has been anti-capital punishment.

Oh, wait. These aren't flip-flops, these are "refinements"

Your arguments are so easily deconstructed. Politicians say whatever will get them elected. This is nothing new or unique to any given party. Sorry to rain on your parade.

left unpandered to.

That's easy. Jimmy Carter.

The policy in question is the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), which compels banks to make loans to low-income borrowers and in what the supporters of the Act call "communities of color" that they might not otherwise make based on purely economic criteria.

Bill Clinton further exacerbated the situation with even more "regulation" of the the mortgage industry to avoid "red lining" practices.

What we need, however, is more quality "government regulation" to keep the evil free market in check. You know the free market that would have kept any sane person from giving a "loan" to someone who can't pay it back.

Weren't Jimmy and Billy evil old republicans?

But, go on believing what you want to believe. When the government runs the company you work for and the new corporate slogan is "From each according to his ability and to each according to his need.' then all will be bliss.

Are you suggesting that all low income people are people of color? Who's racist now?

What a hack. You are the very core of one of the greater ills of this country. Someday, that will change. Like Eddie Murphy said in "The PJs" "It was a nice ride while it lasted"