Sorry, but no. The freest markets have the strongest econnomies, that is an irrefutable fact. No amount of Michael Moore movies will change that.
I am only going to cover this, because the rest is just dumb and won't lead anywhere.
First of all, it is obviously quite refutable. People have been refuting it for a while now, and there still is no solid consensus.
Now, I just want to point out the fact that you said the above quote, and then ask you if you know who was president when the stock market crashed in 1929. Who oversaw the greatest economic failure in the history of the United States of America? What were his economic policies?
Who was president during the ascension out of this period of economic hardship, and what were his policies?
Can anybody answer these? The answers are in EVERY U.S. History book to cover the issue. Not just Michael Moore movies.
I didn't quote an expert, or bring in theory. I talked about actual real events that occurred indisputably. I don't know what else to present to you besides historical instances where you are proven the opposite of correct in every sense of the word.
Obviously your mind is just closed to facts which dispute your very strongly held beliefs, this isn't an intellectual debate. Its a screaming match, and its dumb. READ what is written, and respond to that, don't just shoot back the same points over and over once they have been refuted. I'm done going back to what I said before.
Dagger- I consider Bush conservative economically in the sense that he did very little in terms of regulating the market. The bail outs and all of that made him seem... I don't know how to say it. Very pro corporate. He stacked the deck for large corporations so they would be allowed to run wild, and I guess that is where it came from. In my head conservative means allow corporations to run wild. Traditionally this has been done with Laisse Faire economic policies, which tended to help those already in power. Bush took it even further by not only letting corporations run wild, but also by bailing them out every time they got fucked up from going wild. Its not traditionally "conservative," but the meaning of political affiliations shifts over time, and now "conservative" seems to becoming synonymous with the Bush style pro-corporate agenda.
Rural people tend to feel less direct effects of government programs and still have to pay as much for them. The only thing they think can fuck with their way of life is some terrorist or other country blowing up the country. Hence, rural areas tend to be more conservative. They also tend to feel more threatened by minorities because less minorities live in rural areas. Still. in this election, I don't even understand why, aside from being programmed like novella, anybody would vote McCain this election.
I'm not disheartened about polls. If its like this after the debates I'll be bummed.