The lack of substance in the McCain campaign was never more evident than in the various contradictory responses that McCain had in the first forty-eight hours following the financial meltdown. First he told us that the fundamentals of the economy were sound. When that came back and bit him in the butt we were given a new definition of the word fundamental. In McCain/Palin World, fundamentals of the economy refers to the American workers themselves. Now some American workers might be properly called fundamentalists, but fundamentals...not so much. It was just another example of the McCain/Palin campaign's obsessive compulsion to turn everything and anything that happens into a chance to either blame Obama for it or dare him to contradict them.
So after being soundly beaten up by the bloggers, the MSM, economists, Democrats and some Republicans alike over McCain/Palin's apparent lack of any understanding of the economy or the crisis it was now in, they played the other card. It was Obama's fault. He is a United States senator. Why didn't he do something about this before it happened. If he's so smart why didn't he see this coming. Blahblahblahblah. One of the most amazing things about the McCain/Palin campaign is how McCain's 26 years in Washington seems to have disappeared into a Black Hole. When you think about it, though, they have more than enough reasons to bury McCain's record. Starting with the Keating Five scandal where he escaped blame or punishment by the
skin of his teeth through all the ensuing years when he was the go-to guy for various and sundry lobbyists in D.C., McCain's record as a "reformer" cannot withstand close scrutiny.
The reactions and responses of the McCain/Palin campaign to this particular issue only served to highlight their dearth of substantive plans and positions they actually have and the concomitant plethora of lies, smears, half-truths and disinformation which are the true fundamentals of their campaign. But this particular example of "out-of-touch-ness" has finally seemed to have awakened more and more Americans to the vapid, vacuous, feckless nature of the McCain/Palin campaign.
And the growing chorus of them is saying: "Thanks, but no thanks".
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