Posted on 07/18/2008 5:12:05 PM PDT by dragnet2
Just heard he resigned the McCain campaign over the whining comment.
I don’t know if it’s on their link, but it was just announced at the top of the hour.
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As he should have. What a big time goof.
If he resigns, I’m going to whine.
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/07/18/gramm-leaves-mccain-campaign-over-whiners-comments/
One thing everyone has to learn in the politically correct, New Direction America. NEVER SPEAK THE TRUTH!
Another thread was just posted with the news:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047793/posts
Hooray! One of the last people that may have steered McCain toward supply-side conservatism in his campaign is gone! Let’s party!
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN1834954620080719
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Phil Gramm, an economic adviser to Republican presidential hopeful John McCain, resigned from his campaign on Friday in the fallout over his comment that the United States had become a "nation of whiners." Gramm, a former Texas senator, said in a statement issued by the McCain campaign that Democratic attacks on him had become a distraction to Arizona Sen. McCain, who will face Democrat Barack Obama in the November 4 election. "To end this distraction and get on with the real debate, I hereby step down as co-chair of the McCain campaign and join the growing number of rank-and-file McCain supporters," Gramm said.
Gramm from my home state. He is why California had its electric crisis and parts of Texas electric rates went from 11 cents per kwh to 32 cents per kwh. The same guy who pass the laws to benefit Enron while his wife was on the board. He quit the Senate just before the downfall of crooked E. I can only assume he knew the problems.
resigning is the physical manifestation of whining.
and I thought Phil hit the nail on the head about the economy -— MSM is creating a false climate of “woe, dispair and agony”
Perhaps you can explain further?
Phil was speaking on a full stomach to make the comment about whiners.
Though there are some who make a profession about whining,
Phil has a tin ear not to realize not all are on the gravy
train
The only reason he is resigning is so he can recuperate from his many injuries, injuries sustained after being thrown under the bus. ;-)
He was telling the truth. - Just another example of McCain throwing a friend under the bus. - If McCain doesn’t get on the same page with his campaign people, he will have many more of these problems. It looks like he hasn’t talked with them and, worse than that, like he is ready to throw friends under the bus at every turn. - The American people NEED to be told straight up that the MEDIA has invented this “depression” in order to SCARE THE HECK OUT OF THEM and into voting for Obama. - Gramm is a decent man, and didn’t deserve to be THROWN UNDER THE BUS, like I’m afraid McCain’s going to do to all of us before it’s over. - Obama scares me, and so does McCain.
Which truth was that?
I agree with Phil.
Half of the country are whiners. They are called Democrats.
Phil’s “whining” is uncomfortably close to Jimmy Carter’s “malaise”. Unlike mega-rich Phil and his wealthy wife Wendy, so ordinary people do have real, not mental, trouble paying their bills.
That may be true but you don’t have to whine about it.
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