Say NO to Socialist Bailout AND McCain

The Senate, with the voting support of John McCain and Barak Obama, today passed the great socialist, pork barrel bailout plan in which the government indefinitely continues to supply funds to promote liberal social engineering. No more will Americans need to concern themselves with buying only what they can afford, because the culture of handouts was officially ratified by the Senate today. The only obstacle left is the House, and how much longer can they hold out? We hope forever, but obviously the opposition numbers won't hold up much longer.

From now on, the United Welfare States of America will happily supply minorities and the impoverished with unqualified loans despite the fact that they have no money, no steady employment and no security. When the banks that hand out the politically correct money are subsequently stuck with the defaults they won't need to worry that they'll go under, or lose there ability to compete in the market. Nope, they'll hand the bad note over to the Treasury and tell them to print some more money and write it off.

The McCain campaign had a golden opportunity to stand for the 80% of Americans who loathe the bailout. He had a fierce opposition in the House that represented the overwhelming majority of Americans who are getting handed the bill without being given a proper voice. This was the moment for him to stand up, make the bold decision to stand against the socialist bailout and to support the American people.

He failed us.

McCain went staight into the tank with the corrupt, affirmative action left who are on the take with social activist groups like Acorn and LaRaza. He led nothing, did nothing, and followed the lead of Bush/Pelosi/Reid/Dodd/Frank/Paulson and Obama against the American people to support legislation to continue business as usual in Washington.

If McCain were really any sort of "reformer" he would have stood up on the Hill and said "NO! NOT ON YOUR LIFE WILL I SUPPORT THIS BILL!" It would have made him a hero for the average American that rightly thinks this deal is foul. It would have authenticated his claims to being a maverick who will end the waste and corruption in Washington.

He didn't, he turned his back on everything he claims to stand for, and everything that the American people who supported him believed him to be. I was disgusted with McCain before the campaign began because of his failure to stand for core conservative principles on the economy, immigration, interrogation and global warming.

I had hope again when he nominated Sarah Palin as his VP, because she stood for everything we doubted him for, and made us believe again in the conservative movement that Bush & Company had given such a bad name to over the past 8 years.

Alas, just as Palin has proved to be a mirage, so, too, has McCain's credibility as a leader of the conservative movement. We so hoped for more, we so wanted to believe in the illusion of two idealists going to Washington on their white horses to save the day, but what we got is a leader of empty promises and a sidekick with an empty head.

I look at McCain, I look at Obama, I look back again at McCain and can no longer tell one from the other. Whoever wins is irrelevant, because either way we are the real losers who will be stuck with their trillion dollar tab at the end of the day.

-MZ