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One reason for John McNut's mental meltdown during his answering of the 'FairTax' question could be explained by a Rasmussen poll released before the CNN/YouTube debate.

Survey of 839 Likely GOP Caucus Participants
November 26-27, 2007
Iowa Caucus
Mike Huckabee	28%
Mitt Romney	25%
Rudy Giuliani	12%
Fred Thompson	11%
Ron Paul	5%
John McCain	4%
Tom Tancredo	4%
Duncan Hunter	1%

McNut trails Paul. McNut knows he has no chance in hell of getting the nomination, but it would probably tear him up inside if he loses to Paul in Iowa.

The entire discussion involving the 'FairTax' question :

Cooper: This next question is for Senator McCain.

Ronald Lanham: My name is Ronald Lanham from Mobile, Alabama. And I want you to tell me, do you support the elimination of the federal income tax in favor of a national retail sales tax, also known as the fair tax? Thank you.

Cooper: Governor Huckabee supports it. Do you?

McCain: I do not, and I think we should look very carefully at it. And I think we should look very carefully at some of the provisions, which according to The Wall Street Journal would increase an individual's tax rate up into the 30s.

Obviously, we need a simpler, fairer tax code. Everybody knows that. We need to have a commission that reports out a credible proposal. And then we do what we do with the base closing commissions. Congress can't fool around, they either vote yes or no.

If Congress can't fix the tax code, give me the job and I'll fix it.

I just want to also say that Congressman Paul, I've heard him now in many debates talk about bringing our troops home, and about the war in Iraq and how it's failed.

(Applause)

And I want to tell you that that kind of isolationism, sir, is what caused World War II. We allowed...

(Applause)

We allowed ...

(Audience booing)

Cooper: Allow him his answer. Allow him his answer, please.

McCain: We allowed -- we allowed Hitler to come to power with that kind of attitude of isolationism and appeasement.

(Audience booing)

And I want to tell you something, sir. I just finished having Thanksgiving with the troops, and their message to you is -- the message of these brave men and women who are serving over there is, "Let us win. Let us...

(Applause)

Cooper: We will -- please. We will get to Iraq...

(Applause)

All right. Let me just remind everyone that these people did take a lot of time to ask these questions, and so we do want direct questions to -- the answers. We will get to Iraq later, but I do have to allow Congressman Paul 30 seconds to respond.

Paul: Absolutely. The real question you have to ask is why do I get the most money from active duty officers and military personnel?

(Applause)

What John is saying is just totally distorted.

(Protester shouts off-mike)

Paul: He doesn't even understand the difference between non- intervention and isolationism. I'm not an isolationism, (shakes head) em, isolationist. I want to trade with people, talk with people, travel. But I don't want to send troops overseas using force to tell them how to live. We would object to it here and they're going to object to us over there.

(Applause)

Cooper: All right. We will have a lot more on Iraq coming up. It is obviously a very heated topic. Sticking on the economy, though, a familiar face asking a very simple question.

Wikipedia FairTax article.

Here are some words McNain used in his answer to the 'FairTax' question :

• troops
• war
• Iraq
• isolationism
• World War II
• Hitler
• appeasement
• Thanksgiving

None of those words by McCain exist in the Wikipedia FairTax article. McCain's answer may explain a lot why he now trails Ron Paul even though a year ago, McCain was considered one of the front-runners for the Republican nomination. McCain's FairTax answer shows he's unstable, unable to focus, unable to control his emotions, and ignorant.

Kucinich would make a better president than McCain. The only thing McCain is qualified for is a padded room where he can be observed by doctors wearing long, white lab coats.

When McCain was able to stay on topic, he said :

Obviously, we need a simpler, fairer tax code. If Congress can't fix the tax code, give me the job and I'll fix it.

Obviously? And he'll supposedly fix the tax code if he changes jobs from being a Senator to being a President.

McCain has been a U.S. Senator for 20 years. I wonder if he has ever proposed an idea to fix the tax code? If the issue is obvious, then I assume that years ago, McCain has at least penned a guest column or two about overhauling the tax code.

posted by jr on Nov 29, 2007 at 10:44:27 am     #

Sounds just like Kerry and Edwards fm the last election - that lack of doing anything about our problems during their congressional careers can really come back to haunt ya!!

Even if you tried something and it went down in flames, it looks better than not having tried at all...

posted by billy on Nov 29, 2007 at 01:35:56 pm     #

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