"I cannot in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us at the expense of middle-class Americans who most need tax relief," McCain on Bush’s 2001 tax cuts for the wealthy.
"The tax cut is not appropriate until we find out the cost of the war and the cost of reconstruction," McCain on Bush’s 2003 tax cut for the wealthy.
Well there it is! The Republican Party’s idealogical Dead Elephant in the room. They see those very honest and reasonable quotes – nobrainers to honest and reasonable people – as the black death. This is what they are all about. Reducing taxes for themselves and their class. It is not about making anything or anyone better off but themselves. And anyone who calls that idealogy into question is accused of initiating Class Warfare.
They have two secondary issues. Keeping the war in Iraq going indefinitely to keep their war portfolios soaring and denying Global Warming to keep their oil and coal profits rising. Their issue tailings are building the longest, widest and highest wall in the world, rounding up 12 million Hispanic families to put in prison camps and deport, denying women the right to an abortion and gays the right to marry, refuting evolution and forced prayers in schools, eliminating affirmative action and putting more guns in more hand are all irrelevancies they use only to get the Dumb as Mud vote, which they have been very successful at, so far.
If you have any doubt about this, tune in Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity or the rest on AM radio. Watch Fox News, Bill O’Reilly or Glenn Beck on cable TV. Read columns by George Will, Robert Novak on the editorial pages of our newspapers. Click on worldnetdaily.com or maxnews.com on the internet. The conservative hatred of John McCain is at this moment even greater than their hatred for Hillary Clinton. Hate and no new taxes! It has been the winning political combination in America for a generation. Have we changed enough to change that?