Phil Gramm Resigns from McCain Campaign. Finally.
Jul 18th, 2008 | 10 responses
More likely pushed out I imagine, and allowed to resign to save face.
What damage Phil Gramm did to Senator McCain’s campaign, with Gramm’s archaic and out of touch epithets about American families who struggle so with sudden and huge inflation regarding food, transportation, ARMs, health costs… a ‘perfect mess of an economic storm– while Gramm is a coddled multimillionaire and has NEVER gone without anything even remotely related to stapes and necessities. Never.
Gramm was both the co-chair of McCain’s campaign, as well as his “economics” adviser. Why or how Gramm put himself ahead of Senator McCain’s best interests by grandstanding last week and trying to shame and ridicule Americans who suffer… calling them ‘whiners– Why Gramm went on blathering like some doddering relic waving his cane and declaiming the recession was ‘all mental’ — we can only guess.
But it stands out in bright red that the ego inflation of a personality that does such things thoughtlessly when so very much is at stake, not only sees those who suffer as a joke, rather than as worthy human beings, but also that his impulse control was shot. Blurting out whatever he feels like saying seems Gramm’s highest priority, rather than protecting his candidate’s HONOR as a visionary and compassionate person who is currently being critically evaluated and judged by potential voters…
Senator McCain is already bucking a rain of arrows about being ‘old’ (he is older, but certainly not ‘old’…. and likely carries the kinds of wisdom that can only come from living long) and being old fashioned… (if having certain proprieties is old fashioned, that may be a good thing). He needs Phil Gramm like a duck needs a raincoat. He needs Gramm like St. Sebastian needs a few more arrows.
If Reverend Wright was Obama’s “crazy uncle,” for certain Gramm with his cross-eyed cannon volley straight through the side of Senator McCain’s ship of state, is McCain’s crazier uncle… crazy because Gramm purports to be a seasoned politician. But also, Gramm is way old enough to realize that his giant and self-referent loose lips can sink worthy ships.
Gramm is not ‘a distraction’ as he will attempt to spin this to hold to his own polluted opinions about Americans while pretending to ‘do the honorable thing.’ There is no honor in his resignation after he has made such a mess. But, Gramm’s archaic, intrusive, off the mark attitudes are a passe form of cadaverous politics. Gramm’s time is over. Dead over.
However, the damage is done. And unfortunately, some voters will wonder if Senator McCain really, at heart, shares Gramm’s Sadducean slanders of American people, otherwise why would McCain have hired Gramm on, and in such high position…
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CODA
July 11, 2008 The Moderate Voice, dr.e: “Senator McCain, It’s Time to Dump Phil Gramm Before He Sinks You”
also, July 18, 2008. The Moderate Voice, Joe. G: “McCain Reportedly To Keep Gramm As Adviser And Surrogate”
10 Responses to “Phil Gramm Resigns from McCain Campaign. Finally.”
His “whiners” comment turned off middle-class voters who have seen their standard of living plummet over the last 8 years, as gas prices more than doubled , food and housing costs increased and wages stayed stagnant.
while Gramm is a coddled multimillionaire and has NEVER gone without anything even remotely related to stapes and necessities. Never.
I wonder what that would feel like. God, it must feel like going into a superbly well-air conditioned store on a beastly hot day. And I would wish that I could know, even for just one day, what it feels like never to have had to worry about how to pay for food or rent even for a minute, but I know at the end of that day, I would feel the same way that I feel when I push open the door of that store from the inside, and walk back out into the heat.
I guess Ben Bernanke was suffering one of those “mental recessions” when he called it a “crisis”. I mean really, Gramm knows more about the economy than the chairman of the Federal Reserve eh?
??? “Finally” makes no sense.
I just realized how right Jim Satterfield really is.
The inablity to accept and absorb new information and changing circumstances is a sign of old age. Only, it seems that a whole political faction is suffering from a premature onset of old age symptoms. That would explain the aversion of science, for one thing.
Anagram:
Former Senator and Rep William Philip Gramm =
Grammar mind melt: “Poor are whiners.” A flip lip!
Jab/kill d.y.y. (dumb Yankee yokels)
JillyDybka,
Personally I think “Radiance Skills as Poster” is a much better anagram for “Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes” but then I, too, am burdened with prejudice.
JillyDybka,
Personally I think “Radiance Skills as Poster” is a much better anagram for “Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes” but then I, too, am burdened with prejudice.
ha that's great!