Wall Street Journal editorial board skewers McCain

[Nambe]

Source: CNN

John McCain's recent comments on the economy aren't just coming under fire from Barack Obama's campaign: arguably the country's most conservative editorial board said Friday the Arizona senator's recent "populist rifting" was downright "un-presidential."

A Friday Wall Street Journal editorial sharply criticized McCain for his recent condemnation of Christopher Cox, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Committee. The Republican presidential nominee told an Iowa crowd Thursday Cox had "betrayed the public trust" and should be fired. ...

... Specifically the editorial says many of McCain's allegations against the SEC were misleading — particularly his claim the SEC allowed "naked short selling" and eliminated the "uptick rule that has protected investors for 70 years. ...

... "In a crisis, voters want steady, calm leadership, not easy, misleading answers that will do nothing to help. Mr. McCain is sounding like a candidate searching for a political foil rather than a genuine solution," the editorial also said. "He'll never beat Mr. Obama by running as an angry populist like Al Gore, circa 2000." ...

Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/19/wall-street-journal-editorial-board-skewers-mccain/

[aquart]

1. That board isn't "conservative." It's radical fascist.

But I just love their ire.

[nichomachus]

4. I prefer to think of them as mentally ill

They are batshit crazy. I have friends who work for the WSJ in the news department. They are mortified by the antics of the nutballs who write for the editorial page.

[mrih]

2. Political Foil?

The only "FOIL" McCain has, is the foil he uses to smoke the crack that he is on.

[rosesaylavee]

3. "angry populist like Al Gore..."

:eyes:

McCain wishes he were half as popular as Mr. Gore I am sure.

[AndyTiedye]

6. And All of Us Wish He Had Run as a Populist in 2000

Including Gore himself, I think.

[Piewhacket]

5. Those *wads at the Murdoch Street Journal...

have brain damage issue of their own.

"angry populist"? Gore just won a Nobel Prize for ringing the
global warming alarm bell.

Those prizes don't come in cracker-jack boxes, Murdoch.
So where were you, fool? On the other side of that debate, huh?
Hanging with the rest of the scum?
No Nobel prizes for that, hey!