And I have a strong feeling that the pendulum will swing towards the domestic in the next 4 to 8 years.
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I can't imagine why it would. The oil we need is under their sand. Even if there were a major effort to switch from petroleum, and the GOP is in the pockets of the 'drill baby drill' bunch, it won't happen in the next 8 years. So we are stuck with being a part of the global economy. Japan has had to do this forever.
The election will be this November, not in four to eight years.
Palin and McCain won't be elected based on four to eight years.
Face it, the GOP looks like sh*t and fell in it because of the past eight years. They COULD have run McCain in 2000 or 2004, but they stuck with the stubborn ignoramus because he was more compliant than McCain who was maybe 10% Maverick and has since hugged Juniorbush and made nice with him. McCain has let his towering ambition overpower his common sense. He's done this before, when he refused to see that Vietnam was a waste to be abandoned. He saw it as a sport to be won. Go Team!!
He did it again when he supported the corrupt, drunken and inappropriately named John Tower.
Palin is a ditz. She will do what the party bosses tell her. She has already abandoned her anti-corruption campaign for fame & fortune.
Palin and McCain are not very wise about the economy, and perhaps not wise enough to choose advisers who are. Selecting advisers is far more important than expertise. But you have to know something about the economy to select good advisers.
Juniorbush had Colin Powell, an excellent adviser, but he rejected him and then used his patriotism to turn him into a shameful whore.