Oops! The anonymous post above slipped off my keyboard before I was finished and had identified myself.
So I’ll add that, particularly on domestic and financial issues, McCain is somewhat trapped by his past political proposals.
Plans to further reduce regulation, bailouts, and to privatize Social Security into stock portfolios don’t look like very good ideas at the moment.
They really aren’t very good ideas, actually, and this current crisis makes it clear why.
Unregulated or poorly regulated markets and industries create substantially higher investment risk levels for all investors; people below an income level of about $75,000 dollars generally cannot hold on through bear markets and they get burned by them; and even the supposedly safe money market funds are not impregnable.
It was the start of insolvency in those funds that forced the feds to act. There are no truly safe investment havens for Social Security, which is the retirement and disability income of last resort.
So McCain/Palin pretensions to being “agents of change” to the status quo are just that, mere pretensions without a scrap of real substance to back them up.
