McCain is part Republican, part Democrat. But last night, in his victory speech, he tried to recast himself as some sort of GOP ideal candidate. Give me a break!
Setting drug prices by government fiat rather than market forces results in huge reductions of funding for research and development of new drugs. McCain's evident aim is to reduce pharmaceutical companies' profits. But if all those profits were subtracted from the nation's health care bill, the pharmaceutical component of that bill would be reduced only from 10 percent to 8 percent -- and innovation would stop, taking a terrible toll in unnecessary suffering and premature death. When McCain explains that trade-off to voters, he will actually have engaged in straight talk.Socialism everywhere. It surrounds us. And now it threatens to come down on our heads in an avalanche.
McKennedy is the GOP version of Hillary. Both of them will do or say anything to get elected president. Both would be a disaster in the White House.
Who in the world are these “SC low country voters” and how do we get rid of them, now that SC has assumed mythic importance as conjured up by the msm?
John McCain taking credit for the troop surge is like Algore taking credit for inventing the internet.
I McCain’s I think the following applies
We are what we repeatedly do.
Aristotle
And the Clintons are taking credit for Ronald Reagan’s economy, when Billy Jeff’s achievements were the Silicon Valley bubble and the end of “red-lining” by lenders, which planted the seeds of the sub-prime lending disaster we are in today.
If only some GOP candidate would talk about that, but that would really be “straight talk” and would require some courage. I certainly don’t see McKennedy ever doing it.
How can someone who is supposed to champion the GOP positions say something like this? He is a RINO in socialist's clothing and a chameleon to boot. I don't trust him as far as I can throw him and his state.
If you are so unhappy with the current choice of candidates, then break away and form a far right party like the Green Party did to the Democrats and nominate Dick Cheney or Rush Limbaugh.
In the meantime step aside while the rest of the Republican party tries to put end end to the Clinton era.
This has got to be one of the dumbest reasons to oppose McCain I've ever heard. How does removing a government fiat ("you can't buy drugs from Canada") equate to "setting drug prices by government fiat"? McCain's stance that pharmaceutical companies are the "bad guys" is dumb, but Will's argument here is so weak that I don't agree with him either. If Canada is dumb enough to have price controls on some drugs, why not take advantage of them?
I dislike McCain - in fact, I find him creepy - but this article makes just about the weakest case against him that I've ever seen.
In ABC's New Hampshire debate, McCain said: "Why shouldn't we be able to reimport drugs from Canada?"
In that same debate McInsane said the Pharmaceutical Companies are "the enemy". Mitt shot back, "no they aren't". McInsane replied...
Yes they are, 'my friend'.McInsane, like Rooty, is running in the wrong party.
An aside: The 'my friend' line of McInsane is going to be the new 'drinking game'. It's almost up there now with 'Rooty & Reagan'.
Every once in awhile George Will gets it right.
FYI
Unlike the biblical leopard, John McCain changes his spots on a regular basis and you never know which way they’re going to to next.