EXCLUSIVE: McCain lambastes Bush years

Wash Times ^ | 10/23/08 | staff

[popdonnelly]

McCain is starting to sound like a Freeper. Who’da thunk it?

[McGruff]

While I don’t care for McCain attacking Bush, Bush deserves this criticism. He and congress have been throwing money around like drunken sailors.

[Moonman62]

"We just let things get completely out of hand," he said of his own party's rule in the past eight years.

I finally agree with him.

[Moonman62]

If McCain makes the Republican party look this bad, why would folks vote for another Republican?

Both parties stink. But the one that acknowledges its mistakes will be the first to correct them. The finger pointing at the other guy is getting old.

[ex-snook]

Too little and 3 years too late.

[o2bfree]

I think when he hits Bush, a lot of times the attacks boomerang and hit himself. There’s a lot of collateral damage with this strategy. I don’t think it can work.

[Aquinasfan]

FUNDAMENTALS people. Can’t stress it enough. Tax cuts vs. tax hikes.

Yes, yes, yes. With two weeks left, he can afford to repeat this endlessly without the public tiring of it, especially considering the media filter.

[mountainbunny]

EXCLUSIVE: McCain lambastes Bush years

Color me stupid. I had no idea President Bush was running for office.

[pgkdan]

He has to seperate himself from Bush to win back moderate support. Polls are all showing that Obama has increased his support among independents since the economic crisis blew up in September. McCain’s trying to win them back...it won’t be pretty but it’s necessary.

[pgkdan]

Sen. John McCain on Wednesday blasted President Bush for building a mountain of debt for future generations, failing to pay for expanding Medicare and abusing executive powers, leveling his strongest criticism to date of an administration whose unpopularity may be dragging the Republican Party to the brink of a massive electoral defeat.

All fair criticisms too, BTW.

[SoConPubbie]

But Tax cuts don’t reduce the deficit though. They actually increase it.

Wrong!

It has been proven that every time we reduce the tax rates, tax revenues increase.

[Tallguy]

He waits until NOW to make a conservative argument?

[SoConPubbie]

He has to seperate himself from Bush to win back moderate support. Polls are all showing that Obama has increased his support among independents since the economic crisis blew up in September. McCain’s trying to win them back...it won’t be pretty but it’s necessary.

Too bad we don't have a candidate that leads by principle instead of trying to win by strategy and political games.

I've had enough of this with Bush.

[bobjam]

No candidate has ever won the White House by distancing himself from and speaking ill of his own party’s sitting President. Cases in point: Algore (2000), Adlai Stevenson (1952), William Cox (1920).

[depressed in 06]

Of the two choices we have, one I can’t vote for and one I don’t want to vote for, I would vote third party if did not elect the messiah. (”Hail to the Chief” to be replaced by the “Hallelujah Chorus.”)

I don’t know why McCain allows 0bama to get away with accusations of $300 billion in benefits to the oil companies. He should ask 0bama if he would prefer that $300 billion go to Venezuela? Without a doubt the answer would be yes.

McCain should jump on the tax the wealthy bandwagon by saying that he would tax the people in Beverly Hills back to Bug Tussle.

[PzLdr]

This is why, but for the Dims running Urkel, I’d have sat this election out. Johnny Mac ought to attack the commie he’s running against with the same, or greater, fervor he goes after the party he seems to be only a nominal member of.

[CharlesWayneCT]

He’s about 60% right, if you take into account the fact that McCain supported some of the bad things Bush pushed like amnesty for illegals.

And whether Bush actually abused executive power or not, Bush never defended his use of executive power in a way that would make the American people support him, so why should McCain be expected to do so?

[Polybius]

If McCain makes the Republican party look this bad, why would folks vote for another Republican?

Since when does "Republican Party" = "George W. Bush"?

George W. Bush will go down in History as the Republican Jimmy Carter by making the "Republican" brand as toxic to the average voter in 2008 as Jimmy Carter made the "Democrat" brand toxic to the average voter in 1980.

[pgkdan]

Too bad we don't have a candidate that leads by principle instead of trying to win by strategy and political games.

Yeah...too bad we have to live in this dirty old imperfect world and not the Utopia from whence you derive your political 'principles'.

[driftless2]

Tax cuts increase revenue. Even Charles Gibson knows that. When Clinton cut the capital gains rates in his second term, that is what balanced the budget.