In his speech today, just broadcast on CNN, McCain let loose some real zingers.
He attacked Democrats and Republicans alike for their big spending, without bothering to mention how he's going to pay for both permanent tax cuts and his desired perpetual military presence in Iraq. LOLZ!!!!111
He suggested that certain government programs and even departments should have limited shelf lives, and then blinked blankly as the Giant Invisible Hammer of Irony struck him upside the head.
He attacked Congresscritters on the issue of earmarks, but as his example of "outrageous spending" he cited a $1 million earmark from Senator Clinton for a Woodstock museum. I mean, it's not like anything of cultural or historical importance happened on Max's old farm. That statement alone should lock up the aging hippie-hater vote for him... oh, wait, he already had them locked up.
He thinks it will save billions of dollars if he makes Warren Buffett and Bill Gates pay for their own prescriptions. I had no idea they were so sick.
Oh, wow. My head hurts. He just said that the bankers and lenders who spurred on the sub-prime housing crisis were not representative of the free market. What, they were too heavily regulated, John?
He finished the speech well, including a very nicely-turned subtle dig at Obama's "elitism" (McCain said he wasn't running because he was so superior that he thought he was annointed to save the country), but his utter cluelessness about basic economic issues, especially the clear effects of free trade on the country (his pro-free trade rhetoric was such a totally retro '80s moment I expected to hear Mister Mister suddenly start blaring over the PA behind him) is just sad.