Medved is ignoring Obama's one decisive weapon - Mitt Romney. Americans were outraged by the TARP, the bailouts and ObamaCare, so what do the Republicans do? They nominate a man who supported the TARP, the bailouts and is the godfather of ObamaCare. This election will have a remarkably small turnout as free market conservatives and libertarians stay home. For the historically minded this election is a virtual repeat of the 1936 election where a tyrannical Roosevelt with a collapsing economy and given to rule by edict was opposed by a Roosevelt-lite Republican, Alf Landon. Roosevelt won a mere 46 states.

The banks behaved irresponsibly because the federal government stood ready to bail them out if they got in trouble. When you don't expect to have to endure the full consequences of irresponsible behavior you are more likely to engage in it. The same applies to Israel. Would they attack Iran if they thought that they, and they alone, would have to bear the consequences? The US should not be backing the play of any government thereby relieving them of the pain of reckless choices.

Bush cut income tax rates but actually increased real taxes. As Milton Friedman pointed out, the real tax rate is government spending divided by GDP. It rose under Bush every year from 18% to 21%. Obama made things much worse raising the percentage from 21% to at least 24%.

Name the Republican in the last hundred years that actually made government smaller! Only one and it wasn't Reagan, it was Calvin Coolidge who was, by far, the best president of the 20th century. You've already fallen for drivel if you believe that Republicans believe in smaller government.

Facts are never irrelevant. Whether you choose Obamney or Rombama you're going to get more and bigger government. It's like the tea shirt that has a picture of a Republican elephant and a Democrat donkey with the caption: "Choose the Form of the Destructor!"

You don't have to say the Biden has reached a new low when he speaks. That's taken for granted.

Sanders explains his fundamental principles and how he can be expected to judge issues. Do you really prefer someone who either conceals his fundamental ideas or worse, doesn't have any? Are you better off not knowing a judge's views on freedom of speech, self defense, habeas corpus and privacy? I like surprises as much as the next person, but not the legal kind like the Kelo and Obamacare decisions. These fiascoes might not have occurred if we knew the judges' views before they sat on the bench.

I'm glad to see that Rand Paul understands the importance of freedom on the internet. It's an important issue and we need someone not owned by major internet providers to reject the usual insider protectionist legislation that every form of regulation produces. The big internet companies and ISPs want regulation to protect them from smaller more agile companies. We have too few startup companies now and the internet is the last bastion of low cost, low regulation startup companies.

Do you really want the government to have the power to shut down ISPs?

Romney is almost as ignorant of economics as Obama. The main problem is spending followed by regulation. Romney wants to return to mercantilism and put restrictions on Chinese imports because the Chinese are "cheating" by manipulating their currency. With this view of trade of course he won't defend outsourcing. He actually thinks that sending some jobs overseas hurts Americans, when in fact, the increased efficiency raises the standard of living for everyone. Whether Romney wins or loses the America people will be saddled with an economic ignoramus in the White House.

The objection was to only one part of the bill - the Public Accommodations section. Goldwater opposed compelling private individuals to deal with each other on racial grounds (or any other grounds for that matter). He said it was the same as forbidding them to deal with each other on racial grounds. It made the federal government the final arbiter of all private dealings. Goldwater had supported every civil rights bill up to that point and supported all but the PA section.