[pissant]

Such a free Traitor, he pimped for free trade with communists enemies Vietnam and China.

[cripplecreek]

I’m not a democrat but I’m a NAFTA basher too. One more reason I won’t vote for that piece of trash.

[Scythian]

I’ve never felt better about my decision to not vote for him, I will not vote for him.

[highball]

Oh, it just gets better.

Senator, I am no “friend” of yours. You can repeat those words all you want, but they won’t make it so.

[glide625]

McCain is toast.

[wilco200]

Mccain needs to be Spitzer’d it’s our only HOPE.

[Convert from ECUSA]

Memo to McAmnesty: I’m a conservative and an almost-former-Republican because of you and RINOs like you. And I’m against NAFTA and the version of so-called “Free Trade” you/RINOs favor because American jobs are lost, outsourced overseas, and American products are as rare on store shelves as snow in August!

Every time I think I may have to suck it up and very, very, very reluctantly push the voting button for him in November, he manages to say or do something that leaves me saying “never mind.”

[ari-freedom]

[greene66]

In the early-90s, when Nafta was being promoted, I had a hard time deciding whether I agreed with it or not. The good versus the bad was difficult to gauge. The argument that eventually won me over was that it was supposed to help boost certain quarters of the Mexican economy, leading to a substantial decrease in illegal immigration! Being burned (severely) on that single point, I really don’t have any inclination to find myself ever defending the darned accord, even if some of the economic data might indeed prove positive.

[gitmogrunt]

"The moral of the story is, my friends, is we're not going back to the old manufacturing base of the economy," he(McCain) said.

U.S.A. Manufacturing D.O.A.

[calex59]

I have to laugh at the so-called freetraders. Their argument is that it is bad for the US to have manufacturing but somehow it is ok for that manufacturing to be done in some other country. Why is that ok? Why is it ok to locate companies to China, for instance, but not keep them here? We have lost many jobs and our standard of living is lower. I know it is, all I have to do is compare how much I made to the cost of a house in 1962, when I was discharged from the army and started working in the civilian market, with what I made to the cost of a house now with what the average income in this country is.

Average income in 1962 was about 3500-4000 per year, houses, in CA, cost about 8000 for a 2 bedroom one bath home at that time. That means I only had to work two years to earn the money to buy a house(if I managed to save it all). Today, the average income is about 50,000(correct me if I'm wrong)and houses are about 300,000. So now I would have to work 6 years to earn the money it takes to buy a house(if I managed to save it all). Times are not better, times are not even the same they are worse. Food, gas and all goods, except for a few electronic items, cost more comapared to what we make than they did in 1962.

Even though freetraders don't want to admit it, manufacturing is good for this country and not munaufacturing goods will be the downfall of our economy.

China on the other hand is not outsourcing their goods, they are making them as fast as they can produce them, and reaping the benefits, while we have idiots in this country saying it makes our country better not to build things. BS.

[ex-snook]

ELECTION MEMO TO GOP

CAN YOU

HEAR ME

NOW?

/S/ ECONOMY SUCKING SOUND

[rrrod]

bye bye McCain.

[RightWhale]

McCain seems oddly out of touch on some issues. Perhaps he is getting Proxy Errors, too.

[farmer18th]

Doesn’t McCain’s global-speak make you feel all warm and fuzzy, my fellow Republicans?

[E. Cartman]

McCain’s love of NAFTA still another reason I won’t be voting for him. The GOP better start praying for the second coming, ‘cuz the way things now look, it’ll probably be President Obama or President Clinton after November.

[calcowgirl]

"The moral of the story is, my friends, is we're not going back to the old manufacturing base of the economy," he said.

Yes, heaven forbid that you would ever want an economy that actually produces anything. /s

[Grunthor]

“McCain lashes Democrats for “NAFTA-bashing”

NAFTA has damned near destroyed the manufacturing base in this nation. NAFTA = the process by which the U.S. trades it’s jobs for the dregs of South America.

[JHBowden]

I’m astonished people are bashing McCain here for NOT taking a socialist position on trade.

NAFTA was the primary cause of the great economic expansion in North America during the 1990s. I remember the Goracle, when back when he was partially sane, totally taking loony Ross Perot to school on the issue, even bringing up the disasterous Smoot-Hawley tariff.

The only complaint people have now is that we’re losing manufacturing jobs. You people are just as stupid as the physiocrats of the late 1700s who thought that agriculture magically made an economy solid.

Just in case I’m not clear, I have complete contempt for the DEY TURK MUH JEEERRRRRB folks. As Romney pointed out, given the rise of China, India, and Eastern Europe, we need America to be *more* competitive. Instead, socialists and their nimrod paleocon friends want America to be anti-competitive— we will rot away like Western Europe if we pursue that course of action.