Less oppressive government bad for small business and the working man? Spoken like a true government employee. You’ve obviously never owned & run a small business.

Shrinking the government turns the country over to massive corporations? How would you know that, since there’s never been any government shrinkage in your lifetime?

Deregulation doesn’t mean no regulation, or insufficent regulation, or incorrect regulation. In today’s world, it means cutting down the vast *over*-regulation that’s choking the economy, killing innovation, and making us all poorer.

Not to mention unconstitutionally restricting our liberty and freedom.

I’m all for making the big corporations play fair. But that could be done, and done well, with a much, much smaller bureaucracy than we have now.

I believe that’s what Sarah Palin would try to do. She wouldn’t try to destroy big business because of silly ideological prejudices, she’d rein them in and make them serve the public and the common good – just like she did in Alaska.