I like McCains 3R plan better:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: JOHN McCAIN???S 3R ECONOMIC PLAN 2008
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Progressive Candidate John McCain comes through for America with his 3R economic plan.
In the persona of Theodore Roosevelt, McCain???s plan just makes sense.
1. RETHINK: America must rethink the global views on what America is capable of in our current state of technology, engineering and the demands that face the world.
???RE-Think??? the basic job goals involve the dwindling retirement, health care and social security plans that are failing Americans. With a strong base and a higher Gross Domestic Product (GDP) America has a new bargaining chip in the way we live and the ways we retire.
The framework is already in place through existing laws to make this happen. The Progressive attitude of John McCain to get things done by crossing party lines will resurrect America.
2. REFORM: America must rise to these demands and compete aggressively in a global economy. American people must demand higher quality products and less restricted trade routes for Made in USA components.
The USA will reform its dead manufacturing base to create the most innovative and green-engineered products possible. We will compete in a world market along with other high quality products. Once again, the world needs American success in these new ways of manufacturing.
3. REINVENT: America and Americans must reinvent themselves to reach and maintain these standards and by sheer American ingenuity, control the world???s marketplace in the competitive manner, as we have always been proud to be #1. Can you hear Theodore Roosevelt shouting this?
Americans are going back to a 3R-schooling program where they are paid to reinvent their skills and learn new skills to design and lead their personal LLC, Corporation or joint venture company. That???s easy enough to comprehend and just as easy to implement. The 3R plan is designed as a six-month rapid advancement system. Graduates may return for additional skill enhancements from time to time, or step up after new advanced training in executive management.
McCain???s 3R is about technical, closely monitored and rapid hands on training from pros to create new pros. Thousands of currently-job-displaced ???once leaders in the manufacturing arena??? will be asked to train and play instructor rolls in the 3R plan. Paid, of course, as these new leaders will help create a whole new style of prosperous America. A new guard for Social Security.
The McCain Scenario
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Should McCain win South Carolina, it's on to Florida, which is supposed to be Rudy Giuliani's best state but wouldn't be any kind of firewall against McCain by that point (Giuliani's already slipping in polls even there). By Super Tuesday, McCain's lack of big TV money won't be so significant, because no one else will be able to make saturation ad buys in 20 states either. Given his views on campaign finance reform, it would be fitting if his campaign were the one to prove that money isn't everything it's cracked up to be in presidential politics.
McCain wouldn't even be in the race now if not for Gen. David Petraeus. He bet everything on the surge working (at least as perceived by Republicans)—and won. While he's out of step with his party on this year's hot GOP issue, immigration, it's not as if any other plausible candidate is in step. Romney employed illegals at his mansion, Giuliani ran a "sanctuary city" that protected them, Huckabee gave their children college scholarships, and Fred Thompson doesn't have the mojo to even make this point.
But the bigger reason for McCain's improved prospects is that he's increasingly emerging as the adult in the "daddy party." On Wednesday he was joined by former secretary of state Henry Kissinger (who endorsed him, breaking his tradition of not backing a candidate in the primaries) and by former CIA director James Woolsey. You could argue that guys like that got the country into a lot of trouble. But to GOP primary voters they convey gravitas.
Republicans traditionally give their nomination to the heavyweight establishment candidate. Until recently that was Romney or Thompson, who has turned out to be the dud of the race. McCain was the maverick, widely despised in the Washington Republican establishment for his frequent jabs at Bush and departure from party orthodoxy. But fealty to Bush doesn't matter so much anymore. It's hard to imagine that Romney won many votes for going on "Meet the Press" to defend the president's honor against attacks by Huckabee, who accused Bush of a "bunker mentality" on Iraq.
On the bus, McCain was careful to avoid endorsing Huckabee's view. He's still as open to reporters as he was eight years ago—a welcome relief from the way other campaigns are managed—but the man doesn't run his mouth as freely as he once did. He acknowledged the "failure" of Bush's execution of the war without making any news that could be used against him.
I continue to find a problem at the core of McCain's message. For obvious political reasons, he now favors making permanent the Bush tax cuts he once opposed on principle, which means he's just as irresponsible as the other Republicans in passing down the costs of the war to the next generation. (This is the first war in American history unaccompanied by a tax increase.)
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