MCCAIN REMINDS US WHY WE DIDN’T LIKE HIM BEFORE PALIN

Talk about blowing a golden opportunity.

Whenever there is danger – like the Wall Street Meltdown this week – there is always opportunity.  The Meltdown handed it to McCain on a diamond-studded platter, on which Obambi and the Democrats lay so stunningly vulnerable. 

Instead, he goes off on an anti-capitalist rant, demonizing the "greed" of Wall Street instead of the Democrat crooks in Congress who are the architects of the crisis.  He calls for more fascist regulation, when it was the regulatory power the Dem crooks had that caused the crisis.

And to top it off, he scapegoats Chris Cox, Bush's SEC Chairman, the most honest and decent guy in Washington, instead of the Democrat crooks!

McCain is reminding us of why conservatives weren't gung-ho enthusiastic over his candidacy.  We'd almost forgotten in the wake of Palinmania.  We're now remembering his sneering remark during the primary debates that his life has always been motivated by "patriotism," while that of Mitt Romney was motivated by – he spat out the word as if it were a filthy four-letter insult – "profit."

McCain should have listened more to his friend and cell-mate in the Hanoi Hilton, Jim Warner.

Jim once asked him, "John, would you go to a supermarket to buy a pair of shoes?"

When McCain shook his head, Jim continued, "Right.  You only go to a place where what you want to buy is for sale.  The problem with Washington, John, is not all the lobbyists and ‘special interests.' None of them would be shopping on Capitol Hill if what they wanted to buy there wasn't for sale."

Jim continued.  "We're both admirers of Ronald Reagan, John, and think he was the greatest president of the 20^th century.  But what president did Reagan admire most in modern times?  Calvin Coolidge.  He placed a picture of him in the Cabinet Room.  He told me [Jim was domestic policy advisor to the president in the Reagan White House] that one of his favorite quotes of Coolidge was:  ‘The business of America is business'."

"It's a quote you should embrace, too, John," Jim concluded.  "Public or military service is honorable, but only for a few.  The business – the purpose in life – for the vast majority of Americans is to create a prosperous and successful life for themselves and their families.  You can't blame some of them for trying to do that by buying what's on sale on the Hill.  Blame those of your colleagues who are doing the selling."

Jim's words flew right over McCain's head.  If they hadn't, maybe "Maverick" McCain would have demanded the Justice Department prosecute Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) for being bribed by Countrywide Financial and Fannie Mae – along with former Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines, Fannie Mae vice-chairman Jamie Gorelick, Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo, and other banking crooks like Penny Pritzker.

You can read about them in Jack Kelly's Obama's Crooked Cronies – for they are all major supporters of Obambi.

Or you can watch John Gibson on Fox News detail the financial support Obambi has received by the crooks who caused the Meltdown:

 
With Pelosi Galore refusing to accept any Democrat responsibility for the Meltdown, Harry Reid saying publicly he hasn't a clue of what to do, and Obambi up to his eyeballs in bribes ("support") from the folks who caused the Meltdown, McCain had a priceless opportunity to drive all of this home to voters.

Instead, he puts on a populist anti-capitalist act.  He's reminding us of why we don't trust him.  And it's why Obambi has caught up with him in the polls.

The McCain surge in the polls was because of Sarah Palin.  But voters are worried about their livelihoods now.  He better start paying attention to his old cell-mate Jim Warner.

UPDATE, Friday September 19: Maybe he has started to listen.  He just came out with a TV/Web ad connecting Obambi with Franklin Raines:

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