It is not an American Sucks first campaign, it is a republican sucks period campaign. Either you are too blind or too indoctrinated on the right-wing propaganda to see that our country is in trouble and It is the republicans who caused it by becoming the party for coperate America.
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Either way, Gramm missed the point.
The other lesson he missed is the one that tells rich Republicans who represent banks that they should keep their mouths shut. Evidently, Gramm long since lost whatever political fingertips he used to have when he was a conservative GOP senator from Texas.
Ironically, Gramm initially sold himself as an aw-shucks regular guy. He was always talking about his friend "Dickie Flatt," a small-town small businessman Gramm claimed to be representing—literally and metaphorically—in Washington.
But Gramm, long since out of government, has turned his expertise over to the banks and banking industry he works for. He was a proponent of the kind of anti-regulation philosophy that many observers think contributed to the current mortgage crisis.
Senator McCain, cringing, immediately distanced himself from Gramm and his comments. The two men have been friends and allies for more than a quarter century. In 1988, when Gramm ran an abortive campaign for the GOP presidential nomination, McCain was at his side.
To prove his regular-guy street cred, Gramm used to brag about how he had flunked grades in elementary school. McCain must've been remembering that bit of braggadocio today, as he went to great lengths to reassure voters that he knew their pain was real, whatever Gramm had said. But the damage was done.
When McCain was in the Navy in Vietnam, he knew who the enemy was. These days he's got to watch the incoming from his friends.
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