This was supposed to be John McCain's week to re-re-launch his campaign, this time with a tightly focused message about the economy and how he plans to fix it. He had a nicely staged debut in Denver, even if the experts quickly demanded to know how he could preserve George Bush's tax cuts, stay in Iraq and yet balance the federal budget by 2013. Details, details! Still, McCain was back in the game.
Then a one-man thundercloud named Phil Gramm rained on McCain's Main Street parade.
In one of the more boneheaded remarks in recent presidential politics (and Gramm has uttered others) the former Texas senator declared that we are in the midst of a "mental recession" and that we have "sort of become a nation of whiners."
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McCain, polls show, is struggling to persuade voters—even in his own party—that Republicans deserve to retain stewardship of the economy. Obama and the Democrats are way ahead in polls on questions related to jobs, health care, gas prices, business regulation, the mortgage mess—you name it.
At a time of $4-a-gallon gasoline (or more), of falling home prices in most American cities, of skyrocketing food costs and steadily rising unemployment rates, dismissing worried American voters as whining, depressed basket cases is, well, insane. Read the entire article
These remarks came from a millionaire Republican, this is the conventional thinking of these rich, Reagan idolizing, selfish Republicans. They think that supply side economics solves everything and if you can't make it then it's your fault and you should get off your ass and stop whining. Those cock roaches don't care if the majority of people are struggling as along as they and their love ones are making a killing. Republicans Pols are fucking theives, half of them should be locked up in jail some where and the rest should be sent packing.
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