Scott Ott writes columns at Townhall.com. Here's a glimpse of his latest,
and a link to read more.
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John McCain's Subprime Campaign
by Scott Ott at ScottOtt.Townhall.com
The survival of Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign provides a
powerful
illustration of how profligate borrowing and irresponsible lending gets us
in trouble.
As global financial markets continue to stagger under the burden of the
subprime mortgage crisis, we learn today that Sen. McCain resuscitated his
"mostly dead" White House bid ($500,000 in the red) with a massive loan
involuntarily backed by the goodwill of his sup****ters. In November, the
bank took his mailing list as collateral for a $3 million line of credit,
almost all of which he blew in less than 30 days by betting on New
Hamp****re. As it turns out, his casino-style gamble with other people's
money (OPM) strategy worked, and he lived to spend millions more of OPM.
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Of the last ten or so presidential elections, IMO the right VP choice will
determine the outcome. None of the candidates on either side of the aisle
have truly distinguished themselves as prime presidential material and it
could be this time around voters, particularly swing voters, will be
viewing
the presidency as a package deal. Barking moonbat Donks would still vote
for
either Obama or sHrillary in November even if they were to blow up a
school
house full of children, so there's no use even trying to "reach out" to
these brain-dead lemmings searching for their next touch-feely, groupie
president.
McCain would be making a huge mistake if he were to, for instance, have
either Guiliani or Huckabee as VP - having chosen them for conventional
but
very wrong reasons. Most mainstream conservatives are leery of Huckabee
even
though he's an Evangelical candidate and Guiliani would only be
reinforcing
McCain's appeal to blue-blood Republicans and RINOs and not the
conservative
base.
A McCain/Thompson ticket would have more legs and appeal to not only the
Republican base but also to Democrat conservatives and moderate swing
voters, particularly if they are running against a very liberal ticket of
Obama/Edwards, Obama/Clinton, or Clinton/Obama. It could be why Thompson
dropped out so early, to make himself well-positioned choice since he
won't
be burning bridges attacking either McCain or Romney in the coming days.
Surely there are other legitimate conservative VP candidates like Duncan
Hunter or Brownback that would make a very strong Republican ticket
against
a very liberal Democrat ticket in November. At least it won't be a debacle
like Bob Dole, another blue-blood Republican choice who was repudiated at
the polls. The "it's-his-turn" dynamic simply doesn't fly with the
issue-oriented Republican base and I hope both McCain and Romeny
understand
that and make a informed decision in choosing the right VP candidate.
Obama is the most liberal Senator in the U.S. Senate and Hillary is the
12th
most liberal according to their voting record.
Michael Medved gives an impassioned defense of John McCain at
Townhall.com.
Though there is some level of spin/damage control going on, I think Medved
does a pretty decent job of demonstrating how some of the more staunch
conservatives in the Republican party have unfairly marked Mr. McCain as
an
unfaithful Republican.
It's true McCain's's no dyed-in-the-wool Christian conservative, and he
never claimed to be one, but he isn't the dissembling political gadfly
that
Rush and others sometimes paints him as being. McCain is faithful to his
own
core values despite how politically repugnant they may be to true
conservatives. But really, what could be more conservative than cutting
taxes AND cutting spending and then not sup****ting a policy which simply
cuts taxes . though inarguably such a cut alone did appear to stimulate
the
economy and people's financial attitudes thus creating more government
revenue as did happen under tax-cutting Kennedy and Reagan? It's possible
for people to have the same goals but use different means to acheive them,
particularly among honorable people (which would exclude all republicans).
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