Democrats Trash McCain At Convention
The Associated Press rounds up a day of McCain-bashing from speakers at the Democrat convention, and I thought some of the criticism was worth responding to.
First up, a Planned Parenthood big wig:
Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said the Republican has voted against “real sex education, voted against affordable family planning. And if elected, John McCain has vowed to appoint Supreme Court justices who will overturn Roe v. Wade,” she said, referring to the landmark 1973 case that affirmed women’s right to abortion.
Affordable family planning? Richards means tax payer funded abortions. Now I realize that abortion is one of the most controversial issues in America, but are abortion entitlements really that controversial? Many Americans may think (wrongly in my opinion) that women have a right to an abortion, but I doubt many Americans think that women have a right to demand that other people subsidize their abortions.
Besides, with Planned Parenthood already sucking in approximately $500,000,000 tax dollars per year, all Richards is doing here is a bit of rent seeking. Planned Parenthood is in the abortion business, and they’d love to have taxpayers fund their industry.
Next up, Ohio Governor Ted Strickland:
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland focused on economic issues. “While families are losing sleep tonight trying to figure out some way to make their paycheck stretch through one more day, John McCain is sleeping better than ever,” he said, recalling that McCain had recently said Americans were better off because of President Bush’s policies.
I find the Democrats’ attempts to woo the middle class to be fairly dishonest given that they want to raise all sorts of taxes on the middle class. Obama supports raising taxes for people making as little as $41,500/year and supports nearly doubling the capital gains tax on things like investment income. Given that most Americans these days are invested in the stock market, be it through stock trading or long-term retirement and education investments, that’s a massive new tax on all of us.
The Democrats can say what they want about middle class Americans stretching their paychecks, but the simple truth is that Democrats want to make those paychecks smaller.
Next up, Senator Leahy of Vermont:
“John McCain offers four more years of the same Bush-Cheney policies that have failed us,” summed up Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont.
I know tying McCain to Bush is pretty much the sum total of Democrat campaign efforts this year, and while the liberals in the media have been pretty effective in giving a lot of Americans the vague notion that they shouldn’t like President Bush the simple truth of the matter is that Bush has done pretty good during his term in office. America’s last official recession (meaning two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth) happened in 1990/1991. The record for the amount of time between economic recessions in America was 11 years, and we broke that record in 2002 and have extended through the present to 17 years. Eight of those years have come under President Bush.
Despite the endless negativity about the economy from the media, and attempts from leftist politicians to capitalize on that negativity, this country still hasn’t had a recession since the early 1990’s. Our economy may be in a bit of turn down of the sort that’s natural for our cyclical economy, but our GDP isn’t recessing. And that’s mostly due to the policies of President Bush.
Personally, I think Bush could have done a lot better. I think he could have cut taxes more, and done less to expand our nation’s already unsustainable level of spending, but McCain could do worse (in the eyes of observers not blinkered by partisanship) than to have himself compared to Bush’s economic record.
Certainly if Democrats want to contrast their tax-and-spend policies with Bush’s, and now McCain’s, they’re going to come out on the losing end.
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