[thecavemaster]

McCain/Palin

Bumped into to someone on my travels last week and we were talking politics. He was a registered democrat and he told me that he had already cast an early ballot for McCain. Anyway, I've heard this before but never in this manner. He told me people here in the hills feel like they are turning their backs on their grandfathers and great-grandfathers by voting for a republican and that in reality, that's not the case. The democratic party our grandfathers and great-grandfathers were a part of belonged to FDR and that party has died now. Republicans are closer to that kind of party now than the current democratic party. I think it's a legit point that should be made and it's not said in any racist way as many Obama supporters would lead you to believe. This "change" has been happening for the past decade +.

With that said, go vote for the candidate of your choice tomorrow.

By McCain/Palin reasoning, the New Deal was socialist. Your position here is nigh indefensible if one has any knowledge of historical evolutions within the party structures at all. As evolved, the national Republican Party favors the very wealthy ("If you have a job, thank a rich man"). This has become more and more detrimental to the middle and working classes as huge multi-national corporations have gained more and more power. The Democratic national Party has more belief in using the Government to enhance life, to regulate power, to guard against the kinds of disparity in wealth that deteriorate overall quality of life in a society. Neither party is perfect, of course. But, your analysis here exists in the Netherland of historical ignorance.