Vengeance, on 11 May 2018 - 06:53 PM, said:
Malankazooie, on 11 May 2018 - 03:49 PM, said:
Uh, did McCain run in 2000?
He demonstrated how poor of a decision maker he is when he choose Palin for VP. So thank goodness he never won the presidency.
Yes he did and he lost the nomination for GHB. Then GHB went on to lose the popular vote to Al Gore and have the supreme court vote to stop counting the hanging chads and allow for Florida's electoral votes to go to GHB based on less then several hundred votes.
I liked McCain 2000, his tax plan was unlike Bushes too, surprised at how many of you forgot:
“I don’t think the governor’s tax cut is too big—it’s just misplaced. Sixty percent of the benefits from his tax cuts go to the wealthiest 10% of Americans—and that’s not the kind of tax relief that Americans need. … Gov. Bush wants to spend the entire surplus on tax cuts. I don’t believe the wealthiest 10% of Americans should get 60% of the tax breaks. I think the lowest 10% should get the breaks. …
“I’m not giving tax cuts for the rich.”
—Discussion with media, reported in “Bush, McCain Snip Over ”
“have never engaged in class warfare. I am very much in favor of tax cuts for middle-income and lower-income Americans. I’m deeply concerned about a kind of class warfare that’s going on right now. It’s unfortunate. There’s a growing gap between the haves and have-nots in America, and that gap is growing, and it’s unfortunately divided up along ethnic lines.
“I feel very strongly that we ought to have middle-income and lower-income tax cuts, and we’ll be getting into it, I’m sure, later on in this program. Mine are basically comparable to Gov. Bush’s, in some cases far better. But I’m not sure we need to give two-thirds of that tax cut, of that money, to the wealthiest 10% of America.”
“I always thought that class warfare was to take away from the rich. I always believed that that was what class warfare was all about. As I said, there are tax breaks and money for the richest in America and the very rich, but I think that it’s clear that there’s a growing gap between rich and poor in America, the haves and the have-nots. And many studies have indicated that, and I think that the people who need it most and need the relief most are working middle-income Americans and that’s what I want to give to them. And at the same time, the greatest benefit that I can give them is to make sure that their Social Security benefits are there. And I also don’t think it’s fair for us to lay a $ 5.6 trillion debt down on future generations of Americans.”
McCain lost a piece of himself losing to Bush 2k. I always wondered what if.. ?? too bad though.. McCain would have been a better president than GHB.
This post has been edited by Nicodimas: 11 May 2018 - 11:34 PM
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