Financial Crisis: Confused and Angry McCain Lashes Out

[babylonsister]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/17371

Financial Crisis: Confused and Angry McCain Lashes Out
by Brent Budowsky | September 23, 2008



First McCain takes both sides on bailouts. Then McCain says the fundamentals of the economy are sound, being completely out of touch. Then McCain lashes out about whom he will fire. Then McCain makes personal attacks on Barack Obama.

McCain's anger, ill temper, and penchant for personal attacks leads even conservative columnist George Will to criticize McCain for what Will (correctly) calls "slander" and to say what many Republican senators have long said, questioning whether McCain's temperament would be dangerous in the presidency.

Some significant bailout will be needed because of the economic failures of Bush, McCain and Republicans in Congress who now seek almost total economic power to reward their catastrophic economic failures. Yet as in the 2002 Iraq war resolution, they use fear to seek power. As in the Patriot Act, they seek panic to attack checks and balances. The trademark of Republican rule is to try to use enormous failure to seek enormous powers and to use fear and panic as weapons for this power.

It's a turning point in the campaign. Republican failure. John McCain's lashing out. The hunger for pure power. The use of fear and panic in the quest for power. The rewards for the rich and powerful and the punishment heaped on the middle class and the poor. The violation of every principle of principled conservatism and now, a leading conservative columnist questions McCain's temperament and tires of McCain's personal attacks and lashing out.

Congress should pass a solution with checks and balances, with common sense, and with intelligence and caution that Bush, Paulson and McCain lack.

The campaign has reached a turning point, and tolerance for McCain's personal attacks, lashing out, angry politics and confused policies has run out. This is exactly what voters do not want in a president, in a crisis.

[nichomachus]

1. They need to keep up the pressure on McCain

They've got to make him pop his cork in public. If we can get him to use the C-word on camera, he's finished.

[SuperTrouper]

5. No, he'll use the N-word

[nichomachus]

6. No, his "base" will love that

[irish.lambchop]

2. I assume he is being prepped for the debate this Friday

specifically as it relates to his propensity to blow his lid and run his mouth without thinking. I would love to be a fly on the wall for that prep session. If he doesn't lose his temper in the first one, he most certainly will in the second - especially if he receives negative reviews for Fridays performance.

[Disturbed]

4. McLiar's team will insist that he take a couple of tranqs an hour

before the Debate.

[irish.lambchop]

7. Probably from Cindy's purse :)

[nichomachus]

9. Does anyone else

think of Karen Walker (Will & Grace) when they see Cindy?

[nichomachus]

8. That's a dicey proposition

You've got to find the balance between keeping him relaxed and having him fall asleep. The other side effect of too much tranquilizer is that he will be less inhibited -- and actually more likely to say something damaging. They don't want him telling the truth by accident.

[southpaw]

3. Yep, keep the pressure on!

McCain is feeling desperate, you can feel it.

He's never been able to handle pressure with any degree of grace, and that's not about to change.

I'm looking forward to seeing him totally lose his cool with the cameras rolling.

[CitizenPatriot]

10. if only there were protestors

outside the debate who could greet him with chants of

"John McCain, where's your honor? John McCain, you're a liar!" rinse and repeat. He'd blow for shizzle.