NeoConservative Republican Hypocrisy

Can I get political for a moment?

I was just reading about the government take over of Freedie Mac and Fannie Mae and felt compelled to comment on the hypocrisy of the neoconservative run Republican party.

One of the main tenants of the republican party is that we should have smaller government that is less intrusive on the lives of it's citizens and, of course, business. So what does this administration do? It takes over 2 of the largest private lenders of morgates in the country, thereby expanding the governments reach into private sector and using our tax dollars to solve the problems created by greedy bankers who capitalized off of deregulations.

Some may argue I'm not being fair and that this action was necessary to keep many Americans in their homes. Fair enough, I can use another example to point out their hypocrisy: Terry Shivo.

With regard to the election, I find great hypocrisy in John McCain's decision for vice president. While McCain more closely represents the values of the republican party past, Gov. Palin represents the values of the neo conservative right--which are vastly different. McCain is clearly playing politics with this decision but the greater philosophical statement is that he will retract from his "maverick" ideas and further adopt the neocon philosophy in order to win votes. This is the same philosophy that has placed us in Iraq and, consequently, has run this country's economy into the ground because of huge debt/deficits.

So the question is how can McCain represent the change this country needs when he's just resigned his ticket to the political philosophy that is currently running the white house? Can the repulicans save us from the republicans?

enough for now.
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