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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	No worries
	Date:	3/23/2009 2:58:06 PM

On several issues I will grant you that McCain would not be a whole lot better than Obama. Yes he voted for TARP like a lot of Republicans. He and others believed that was necessary to stem the bleeding and they were all wrong. I supported Romney in the primaries but the media selected our candidate and we had to make do as best we could.

However, McCain has always been a hawk on earmarks and he voted against the BO Stimulus-Porkulus Plan (the only Republicans that voted for this craziness were the RINO's Specter, Snowe and Collins). He has been outspoken against many of the hidden provisions in the plan such as the billions in earmarks or pseudo-earmarks, the health care provisions, etc.

I also think McCain understands fundamentally that the long-term solution to this economic situation is permanent tax relief. He said in the campaign and I believe he would have tried to make the Bush tax cuts permanent. Not sure with the makeup of Congress he would have been successful but he would have tried. That act alone would eliminate a lot of uncertainty and prompt business to begin making investments versus holding onto cash in anticipation of higher taxation.

I base this not just on his statements during the campaign but on his actions as a Senator. It is mere conjecture on my part but one thing I can say with absolute certainty is he is not a socialist like Obama and would have been incrementally, if not significantly better than what we currently have running the government. And finally, he would have at least provided a counterbalance to the wackos running the House and Senate (Reid/Pelosi) rather than the rubber stamp that BO has become (not by the way any surprise to many of us who warned that he has never gone against party orthodoxy). By all appearances BO is the Celebrity in Chief or the Teleprompter in Chief and Reid/Pelosi are running the country. There is no way McCain would have let that happen.

But Hound would say we're leaping over mouse turds or some other highly intellectual analogy.