Financial Shakeup this weekend

[Wellardmac]

I think that most find him hard to defend at best and embarrassing at worst.

I have been surprised that no-one has stepped up to the plate to defend him.

I'm not a liberal, I try to look for the good in both parties. I'd be an Independent if I didn't dislike the current Republican platform for much. If the Republicans had good ideas I'd be voting for them, but unfortunately right now I don't see that happening. They've been hijacked by the religious right and they have no fiscal discipline, so all the time that continues to be the case they will not be getting my vote.

The sad thing is that they had a good candidate in Mitt Romney, but he screwed up his packaging by pandering to the conservatives, so noone could actually work out what he believed in. He was great as the Massachusetts Governor and would have been a good president if given the opportunity to gain the nomination. Ron Paul would have been a great choice from the trust/social perspective, but fiscally you couldn't predict where he would go.

It's funny, because the entire US political scene is more right wing than the right wing parties in Europe, so here I am an ideological child of Margaret Thatcher finding myself wanting for something more balanced and fair from the social perspective and with a fiscal discipline that is lacking in either party.