Scott Allan’s World

John McCain pissed me off last night.  His first proposal was absurd; buying bad mortgages and renegotiating the payments based on the new home value so people can remain in the homes they couldn’t  afford.  Last night McCain said health care is a responsibility and not a right so how did owning a home suddenly become a right.   What ever happened to renting?  Is there some shame in that?   How tempting is it for me to just stop paying my mortgage so that John McCain will buy my house and let me continue to live there?

Despite my annoyance with this latest idea of his, McCain is still the best choice by a country mile.  By all accounts John McCain should be winning handily.   He has the experience.  He has a strong, conservative woman on the ticket.  He wants to cut taxes and freeze spending.   He wants to freeze the growth rate of spending, not actually cutting spending though.  He wants to save the environment and get off foreign oil.   He wants to win the war on terror.

But for some reason he is not winning.   He is losing to a slick newcomer who really has no experience or record to speak of especially on the economy.  He has never run a business nor had any executive experience.   Somehow this makes Obama more of an expert on the economy even though his plan is to take money from the rich and give it to the poor. He literally wants to tax the rich and give it to people who don’t even pay taxes.  He said there is no trickle down economics in the debate last night.  So I guess he thinks that poor people create jobs somehow.  He wants to increase taxes on the pseudo wealthy and small businesses.   He wants to roll back the Bush tax cuts which will increase EVERYBODY’s taxes including the 95% he said he’s not going to affect.   He wants to raise the Social Security Wage Base which will further raise taxes on those making over $85,000, not the $250,000 he always claims. He wants to raise the cap gains tax from 15% to 25%-28%.   That’s really good for investing in a weak economy.  On top of that he refuses a spending freeze preferring to use a scalpel than an axe.  In plain English that means he’s cutting nothing.   If Obama looked and sounded like John Kerry, (imagine John Kerry with no record) he’s be losing handily by now.  In debates and interviews Obama literally says nothing and makes it sound like something profound.

I don’t expect a presidential candidate to be a great debater or a perfect speaker or in perfect shape or attractive (although I don’t mind this at all about Governor Palin).  All that stuff is meaningless crap.  To me, I only care about are you right on most of the issues I care about, do you have a record to back it up, and when you say you will do something that I can trust you to keep your word.    John McCain wins on all accounts.