This one pisses me off. Steve loves to see me “fired up.” Once again, I am fired up. I hate being the angry conservative. “Angry” is a trait of the left in this nation. But, lately, I have come to the conclusion that there aren’t enough “fired up” conservatives. Blame it on our lukewarm candidate for President or on our lackluster and woeful GOP leadership in Congress (though Steve would disagree).
When a good man like former Texas Sen. Phil Gramm goes down, there is something wrong. Gramm resigned from the McCain campaign as a co-chair because of statements he made to the Washington Times. Here are his remarks from the Times article -
You’ve heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession,” he said, noting that growth has held up at about 1 percent despite all the publicity over losing jobs to India, China, illegal immigration, housing and credit problems and record oil prices. “We may have a recession; we haven’t had one yet.”
“We have sort of become a nation of whiners,” he said. “You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline” despite a major export boom that is the primary reason that growth continues in the economy, he said.
“We’ve never been more dominant; we’ve never had more natural advantages than we have today,” he said. “We have benefited greatly” from the globalization of the economy in the last 30 years.
I’m waiting for the damned crickets here. He is right. He speaks the truth. I guess maybe I’m biased because Phil Gramm is one of my inspirations. As a Texas Senator, he and Reagan really got me going into politics and made me see the conservative light. And just like Reagan he is urging optimism in a time that is painted gloomy by the MSM. And like every other McCain surrogate who speaks the truth, he is thrown under the bus by the McCain campaign. Screw that.
If McCain refuses to back up his people and continues to diss everyone who speaks truth on his behalf, he won’t have anyone left to speak for him. All we’ll have left is John running around praising Obama. I’m about sick of this crap. Gramm was one of his premier advisers and a potential Treasury nominee.
McCain is making it harder for me to defend him everyday. Gramm didn’t resign of his own accord. He was forced out after McCain distanced himself from true and poignant statements. I have no clue where this campaign is going, but I’m done giving financially until they figure it out for themselves.
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