I dreamt that John McCain was President last night.<\/p>\n
I know, I know…he’s not the most Republicanny Republican and all, but think about it for a moment.<\/p>\n
We’d have three highly qualified<\/em> candidates waiting in line<\/em> to be Commerce Secretary instead of Obama’s “sometimes it takes three tries to get it right.”<\/p>\n …yah, I am sure you think that sounds pretty smart Obammy, but I’d like to know what Michelle<\/em> thinks of that.<\/p>\n I think you meant it takes three tries to find someone desperate enough to put “Obama Administration” on their resume knowing full well what his policies are going to do to with what’s left of “commerce” in America.<\/p>\n It’s why we don’t have a Titanic II. No one would want to be Captain, let alone sail on her.<\/p>\n If John McCain were President, we would have a cabinet packed with people that actually pay<\/em> their taxes, have actually started business (vs. reading about it<\/em> in a textbook), hired employees, owned homes and paid mortgages – versus trading favors with a Chicago criminal to put a roof over their head.<\/p>\n There’d have been no speculation of Oprah’s official capacity either.<\/p>\n As for the\u00a0speech last night, McCain\u00a0would probably have We’d have his nervous ticks instead of Obama’s sweeping, graceful poise.<\/p>\n …and no Hopey Changey Messiah talk.<\/p>\n But McCain’s math would have been better.<\/p>\n Obama’s Math:<\/p>\n Socialize Health Care<\/p>\n + Cap and Trade<\/p>\n + Increase Taxes on + Halve The = Fatal Error. Please Reboot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Either way, we’d still have Nancy Pelosi’s assenine permagrin dental work burned into our pixels (I actually had coffee with someone this morning that had to put a towel over the right side of the TV screen last night so he could watch Obama’s sermon).<\/p>\n If John McCain were President, Congress would still be hashing out the “Stimulus” bill under threat of a veto, and chances are in the end there would have been less pork hanging on it’s bones – it would still be a terrible mistake, but to a lesser degree.<\/p>\n …and we’d all actually have some true hope for the economy and our dollar.<\/p>\n McCain would be fighting for government policy that might actually have a chance of stimulation, like cutting taxes to corporations, business owners and consumers, and forcing government to do more with less, like the rest of us poor saps that have the audacity to pay our mortgages, live within our means and respect our commitments and responsibilities.<\/p>\n As it stands, the only thing Obama has proposed to cut is military spending – in the era of the only successful terrorist attack on American soil – barely a footnote in Obama’s monologue last night.<\/p>\n John McCain’s speech would have been shorter. He’d be less talky-talky and more worky-worky. He would have ended his campaign once elected. Obama can’t stop his.<\/p>\n John McCain likely would have tackled our nation’s issues like the decorated hero\/servant that he is. He’d likely have picked the most urgent, pressing target, (it’s the economy, stupid) trained his sites and directed his resources and political capital in a focused campaign dedicated to it’s destruction, and we’d have some semblance of a plan right now.<\/p>\n Contrast that with Obama’s reckless design to force-feed thirty years of pent up and failed liberal agendas, without regard for the timing or capacity of our economy to absorb the costs or overcome the additional friction borne by the conduct of commerce.<\/p>\n The President and his book-learned liberal turd-squad think you can make a train start moving again by building more track and adding more cars. McCain would feed the boiler with more coal.<\/p>\n In all fairness, neither <\/em>President would have a clue how exactly<\/em> to solve an unprecedented, systemic and global financial and credit crisis; but one would have the good sense of what not<\/em> to do right now.<\/p>\n …but he’s still the Senator from Arizona.<\/p>\n A guy can dream, can’t he?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I dreamt that John McCain was President last night. I know, I know…he’s not the most Republicanny Republican and all, but think about it for a moment. 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Not a lot of charisma or flash. Not a lot of big words. Very little emoting.<\/p>\nThose That Actually Pay Taxes<\/strike> The “Rich”<\/p>\nNational Debt<\/strike>\u00a0Deficit<\/u><\/p>\n