Originally Posted by TheLastBoyScout

I understand the mortgage mess.... and the lending practices that caused it.

The reason that the Government bailed out the 2 GSE's is the potential large scale economic fallout. The result is that now the taxpayer will foot the bill.

Palin had it exactly backwards...... This is not like the Sunni/Shia mixup that McCain had.... that could be forgiven because he had dealings and it could be written off the same way a grandpa calls his grandson Jimmy, "Mike" by mistake.

This is different. Palin has had no dealings in the mortgage crisis on a national level. To say that she really knew better and just had a brain fart is based on nothing.