Posted on 03/02/2008 10:32:31 AM PST by SupplySider
Sorry. Our unalienable rights and sovereignty as a people are not worth trading for worthless McCain campaign rhetoric.
That is very true. That is the gamble.
McCain is so busy lying he cannot remember the lie he told YESTERDAY to make himself look better today.
He’s no economist, and doesn’t know squat. Why is he running for President...other than the power-thing?
If he can stick to any conservative principle for longer than three months without feeling the need to cowtow to the liberals he cherishes as friends I may consider voting for him. :)
One of my all time favorite politicians. I voted for him for Prez when he ran. Any politician that appears on the cover of the American Rifleman shaking Wayne Pierre's hand is my kind of guy.
By his own admission, McCain is an economic illiterate. Not even Phil Gramm can give him cover.
Outstanding. If McCain will run hard on it (and other Gramm policies) it'd be a lot easier to vote for him.
I have missed Gramm and his speeches, always felt he had a way of explaining things that resonated with most people, something we've been lacking for a while.
I've especially missed the stories about Dickey Flatt. Maybe we'll get to hear some more about old Dickey.
However, the weird combo of McCain's utter economic ignorance and his stacking his policy team with heroes of Reganomics gives me hope that something good might happen in spite of the man. I have zero hope for Obamanomics.
You’d still never see ANY fundamental reform. Just more tinkering, for show.
I say, out with the Washington lawyers! In with the Texas economists!
How much true reform did you see when Phil and his buddies Gingrich and Armey held the reins of power?
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice...
I know the quote isn't original to Gramm but I heard him say more than once that "politics is show business for ugly people" and then claim that he had a leg up on everybody else.
Nice peek into the economic views of CNN's "business" editors:
Lower taxes, lower government spending and free markets = radical ideas and zealotry.
The decisions go back to the individual and more competition is created. Sounds good to me.
"I don't know as much about the economy as I should."
And therein lies the problem - neither do any of the other 99 senators, or the 435 Reps in the House. 'Heck', a good portion of the Representatives are Functional ILLITERATES.
But the little fact that they're ignoramuses doesn't stop any of them from writing and/or voting on Tax Laws, Business Regulations, etc. when they can't even balance their own check book does it.
No wonder they come up with Trillion Dollar budgets for the U.S. gubmint and 20,000+ Earmarks in the BILLIONS for their buddies back home -- they don't know WTF money actually looks like.
I'd wager that if most of them had to hold a REAL job with a fixed salary, they'd be homeless in a month and living out of a 1983 Chevy Nova.
Gramm’s wife was part of the corrupt gravy train at Enron.
Nobody even scrutinized her actions. Did she really not know what was happening?
I liked Phil Gramm when he ran for President (I think in 2000). The only thing was, I knew he wasn’t going to get the nomination. This is hopeful.
an assault on government growth that Republicans have boasted about, but failed to achieve
Minnesota Republicans joined Democrats to over-ride Pawlenty’s Veto. Good luck McDole, I’ll still vote a complete Republican ballet for lower tax rates, but on only counting on your winning from unappealing Democrat candidates and the sympathy vote.
By his own admission, McCain is an economic illiterate.
Obama uses the phrase => “unbalanced economy” no competition to worry about in that respect, except the ignorant masses who understand what Obama is talking about when he makes up terminology.
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