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”