Posted on 09/22/2008 10:55:36 PM PDT by Checkers
"The queen had only one way of settling all difficulties, great or small. 'Off with his head!' she said without even looking around." -- "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
WASHINGTON -- Under the pressure of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. It is not Barack Obama.
Channeling his inner Queen of Hearts, John McCain furiously, and apparently without even looking around at facts, said Chris Cox, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, should be decapitated. This childish reflex provoked The Wall Street Journal to editorialize that "McCain untethered" -- disconnected from knowledge and principle -- had made a "false and deeply unfair" attack on Cox that was "unpresidential" and demonstrated that McCain "doesn't understand what's happening on Wall Street any better than Barack Obama does."
To read the Journal's details about the depths of McCain's shallowness on the subject of Cox's chairmanship, see "McCain's Scapegoat" (Sept. 19, Page A22). Then consider McCain's characteristic accusation that Cox "has betrayed the public's trust."
Perhaps an old antagonism is involved in McCain's fact-free slander. His most conspicuous economic adviser is Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who previously headed the Congressional Budget Office. There he was an impediment to conservatives, including then-Congressman Cox, who as chairman of the Republican Policy Committee persistently tried and generally failed to enlist CBO support for "dynamic scoring" that would estimate the economic growth effects of proposed tax cuts.
In any case, McCain's smear -- that Cox "betrayed the public's trust" -- is a harbinger of a McCain presidency. For McCain, politics is always operatic, pitting people who agree with him against those who are "corrupt" or "betray the public's trust," two categories that seem to be exhaustive -- there are no other people. McCain's Manichean worldview drove him to
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It used to be that one could criticize John McCain at Free Republic...
...it appears those days have passed.
You are aware that the Primaries are over.
Right?
Will is a country club Republican who would rather sip wine with Obama--that seems to be how he decides who has the correct "temperament".
“You are aware that the Primaries are over.
Right?”
It’s one big Democrat Primary.
It seems there is a tie between George Will and David Brooks...
In a word, yes.
The primaries are over; your man lost. Deal with that.
Sore losers who can't "let go" and effectively openly campaign for the opposition, have no place in FR.
There was a time when John McCain was the opposition.
How vile. Will should be ashamed of himself.
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That time has come and gone.
LOL!
You do have this problem letting go, don't you.
Ever had a RO issued against you?
It's already here, regardless of Obama. Socialism, mercantilism, fascism, statism, totalitarianism...it has many names and many forms, but at its core, it desires that one group force itself on another group, that one group deny to another group life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
The worst part: it arrived gradually. It came in the middle of the night when folks were asleep and nobody was watching. It came with a whimper and a sigh, not a bang. It came when people, wringing their hands, decided to be "pragmatic" instead of standing up for themselves, began to choose "the lesser of two evils." Both Republicans and Democrats are guilty of opening the door to "Socialism"...which is now here to stay.
It seems Will, while stooping as low as to make a Manchurian Candidate reference, did not serve in Vietnam.
He was born in 1941.
“George Will is being very slick in his rhetoric here, and I’m not buying it.”
Every error of this campaign already has a loud speaker NYTWPWTCNNNBSMSNBS>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Where is the 0nes ??
I disagree. Cox knew what was happening and let it slide. Yea he should be fired.
I am probably (as usual) in a minority, but I like McCain’s crusty side. Many great leaders (Patton and Churchill spring instantly to mind) shoot off a bit at the lip from time to time.
I want a leader, not an ambassador. I want someone who, within reason, says what he thinks.
The debate is over. McCain has seen the conservative light, McCain is a war hero, and if you oppose him, you are a liberal! Yes, a liberal troll who deserves a zotting! Now drink the Kool-Aid, or we'll force it down your throat, you dastardly DUmmie!
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