- Scott Miller
The GOP looks like they are gonna party like it’s 1996… that was the last time the party, in it’s finite wisdom, decided to nominate a “moderate” has-been as their nominee. What ensued was a cruise to victory by the slickster… Bill Clinton.
As followers of this site well know, I am by no means a McCain fan. Never have been. The guy is not a conservative. Never has been. Therein lies the ultimate problem with John McCain.
He has no core underpinning to base his philosophy. He has no principles to guide his political thought process. He is a creature of the wishy-wash for-the-cameras policy approach that too many in the Republican party embrace while they spend most of their lives in DC.
The purpose of this post is not to bash John McCain. I will still vote for the McCain-Palin ticket, as picking Sarah Palin was the single smartest decision he has made in his run for POTUS. However, with each passing day, it is looking more bleak for McCain’s prospects, and the fall of his campaign can be directly traced back to his fundamental lack of conservative principles.
When the financial meltdown occurred, McCain was (and remains) clueless as to what to do. Why? Because, as I have said many times before, he is an economic illiterate. He cut his teeth undercutting pro-growth, less taxes, less government policies of conservatives, and he has made a career out of playing the class warfare card like so many on the left. So when it came to seeing the government intrusion into the markets as a major threat to our long-term economic success, John McCain made all the wrong moves.
He should have come out against the massive pig of a bailout. He never should have proposed nationalizing much of the nation’s mortgages, and he definitely should not have ever pulled the stunt of suspending his campaign to essentially do nothing.
Yes folks, conservatives will look back at this election and say “I told you so”. This is what happens when the morons, the blue-bloods, in the Republican party decide to go with the next guy in line. Tell me Mitt Romney couldn’t be kickin’ Obama’s ass right now on the economic issues… you know what they say about history… those who don’t remember it’s lessons are doomed to repeat them. Just ask Bob Dole.
