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Club for Growth likes McCain

Posted by cavalier973 on Thursday, March 27, 2008 11:21:14 PM
And I can't say I blame them, at least on this issue:
 
McCain is Right on Free Trade

 


Washington – The Club for Growth commends Senator John McCain for calling for a new free trade agreement with the European Union.

Currently, the United States and the European Union have low tariffs on most manufactured goods traded between the two entities. Even with these tariffs in place, U.S. trade with the EU accounts for the largest bilateral trade relationship in the world. These tariffs, though, function like a tax on goods and services at the international level. Tariffs penalize American and European consumers for engaging in business with their transatlantic partner and serve as a disincentive for commerce. Removing these tariffs would be a huge boon for economic growth for all countries involved.

Just as the American economy has benefited from increased commerce with Canada and Mexico following NAFTA’s passage in 1993, an agreement with the European Union would produce similar economic benefits. With the American economy on the verge of a recession, opening up the country’s doors to more commerce around the globe is exactly what is needed right now.

“In an increasingly protectionist and demagogic atmosphere, it is encouraging to hear a voice of sanity on this issue,” said Club for Growth President Pat Toomey. “The Democratic Party, led by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, are determined to isolate America from the global marketplace with calls for renegotiating NAFTA and a freeze on future free trade agreements. But the protectionist utopia Clinton and Obama are selling is a dangerous nostrum with the potential to do much damage to the U.S. economy. We commend Senator McCain for standing up for free trade and the prosperity that comes from it.”

 
This is one of the reasons (see my above post about joining the McCain Borg) that I have to vote for the guy.
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Today's vocabulary word is "mensch"

Posted by cavalier973 on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 11:22:26 PM
If you would like to hear Gov. Huckabee's take on the whole Obama/Wright controversy that's roiling the current news cycle, then click here:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTFLOu8fjxU
 
The reason that I mentioned the word "mensch" is because in the comment section below the video, that was how one person described Huckabee.  I thought they were being deleterious, but I looked up the word, and it means, "a decent, upright, mature, and responsible person."  And that is what I think Huckabee has demonstrated he is.
 
Even though I disagree with him somewhat on the Obama/Wright situation.  Huckabee says that Obama gave a good speech;  since I haven't listened to the speech, then I am not in a position to evaluate it.
 
Huckabee also says that the things Wright said were said in "the heat of the sermon",  but I have heard these things, and I disagree.  Pastor Wright was not "taken out of context", as it were, and even if the inflammatory rhetoric Wright used was not part of the written sermon, they reflect an angry, angry heart, and a mind that has been misinformed about what Christ was really all about.
 
Read this article, about "black liberation theology":  www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JC18Aa01.html
 
The big question in all of this, which has been posed by numerous people now, is "What does this say about Obama's judgement, that he would choose to attend the church of a raving hatemonger for 20 years?"
 
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Romney's not orthodox on economics

Posted by cavalier973 on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 8:07:57 AM
Some of us need some serious education when it comes to economic issues.  I've had a few discussions with people on the Townhall blog sites concerning Mitter the Quitter and his supposed economic brilliance.  The argument from the Mittwitts is that McCain needs to put Romney on the ticket to give McCain support in the economics arena.  Since Romney was such a whiz at his business, and in turning around the Olympics, and turning around the state of Massachusetts, then he MUST know about economics, right?  Well, first let me direct you to this:
 
 
Now, Romney may understand economics perfectly, but he has shown in his governorship and in his presidential campaign that he's not willing to act on what he knows.
 
In Massachusetts, he got a law passed that used government power to force people to buy health insurance.  How's that for allowing the free market to work? 
In the campaign, he demonstrated that he still has no qualms about using government money and power to help specific industries.  He told the people in Michigan that he would use government largesse to prop up the failing auto industry.  He (as Hazlitt says) is a bad economist, because he only considers what effect that policy will have on that specific industry, not what effect it will have on consumers or on other industries.  Now, if he really understood economics, or really believed in the free market, then he would have said he would deregulate and lower taxes, and continue to let the auto industry compete in the global market (which is pretty much what John McCain said).
 
Romney is not for any sort of tax reform, either the Fair Tax or a flat tax.
 
McCain is for free trade, lower taxes and lower government spending.  If you can get him to appoint a Fed Reserve Chairman that will quit printing money, then that's about all you need in a President when it comes to economics.
 
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Assimilating into the McCain Borg

Posted by cavalier973 on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 11:19:55 PM
I wasn't any happier than anyone else that McCain got the nomination, but I knew that eventually I would hunker down and be the party man I claim to be.  The reasons against voting for McCain are well documented.  Ususally, only one reason is ever mentioned why one SHOULD vote for McCain, and that's the War on Terrorism/War in Iraq/National Security.  Here are some other reasons I've found to vote for him:
 
McCain's pro-life.  Well, he leans federalist on the pro-life issue, but so did everyone's superconservative, Fred Thompson.  They both want to repeal Roe V. Wade and return the issues to the states, then fight the abortion industry state-by-state.
 
McCain's for free trade.  This is a big one for me, and is an issue that I think a lot of people don't realize about McCain.  Late last fall I was a Mitt Romney supporter, until I heard him say in a debate that he was for "free trade but fair trade."  (Which is what Barak Obama is saying now)  That kind of squishiness on the issue really bothered me, and I switched to being a Huckabee fan because of the Fair Tax (which Romney did not support.  Romney wouldn't even support a Flat Tax.  Romney apparently likes the tax system the way it is now).  But McCain is a Free Trade supporter, and despite his coy assertion that he knows little about economics, his support of Free Trade shows he's not such a lightweight on the economic issues.
 
McCain's for cutting government spending, and keeping taxes low.  And he wants to reduce government spending.  And eliminate the AMT.  Did I mention he wants to cut government spending?  According to Michael Medved, McCain's the only Senator that hasn't engaged in all that earmarking.  Of course, his support of environmental policies could totally offset any spending cuts, but maybe we can slap him around and get him to forget about the tree hugging.
 
McCain is for choices in education.  He makes a brief, lateral, mention on his website about homeschooling, saying that he's for it.  With what's happened recently in California, this has become a much more interesting issue for me.  My wife and I have decided to home school our kids, at least in the early years.
 
McCain is pro-gun rights (mostly, I think.  Check with the NRA).  He voted against the assault rifle bans.  He opposes attempts to hold gun manufacturers responsible for crimes committed with guns.  He opposes the waiting period for purchasing firearms.
 
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