Watching hardball today, i couldn't help but yell at the top of my lungs at the tv when Governor Tom Ridge started defending John McCain with his idiotic and baseless arguments.
First, Governor Tom Ridge and Matthews talked about McCain's assertion that Obama is a socialist. Tom Ridge made the misleading claim that Obama is the most liberal senator in the senate, and is therefore most liberal than the senate's single socialist, who I'm guessing Ridge was referring to Senator Bernie Sanders.
The argument on itself is very misleading since the National Journal made the ranking during 2007, when Obama missed 1/3 of the 99 votes for the senate. While 65/66 liberal votes is nothing to sneeze at, one can only speculate what his other 33 votes would've been like. Matthews also countered that it was ridiculous for Republicans to call for higher taxes for more affluent Americans socialist when Republicans spent the last eight years running up the bill, with no answers on how to fix it.
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Later in the discussion, Matthews showed Ridge the clip of Powell calling out McCain's campaign for not knowing how to respond to the economic crisis and changing its opinions daily on how to fix the situation. Ridge then threw out an ignorant baseless deflection, saying that while McCain might not know everything about the economy, he knows the importance of lowering taxes and that as a second point, Powell's endorsement of Obama was counterintuitive? Counterintuitive why you might ask, because troops clearly would rather have McCain as their commander in chief during America's two wars. While this may be a couple months old, i believe it is still relevant - http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/...
Where does Tom Ridge get his facts? One could support his arguments if they were surely based on valid facts, but they're not. Anyone else tired of seeing McCain surrogates who spout idiotic talking points and naive platitudes on hardball?