More Republicans are starting to turn away from John McCain.
He endorsed John McCain in the presidential primary, but now former Republican Gov. William Milliken is expressing doubts about his party’s nominee.
“He is not the McCain I endorsed,” said Milliken, reached at his Traverse City home Thursday. “He keeps saying, ‘Who is Barack Obama?’ I would ask the question, ‘Who is John McCain?’ because his campaign has become rather disappointing to me.
“I’m disappointed in the tenor and the personal attacks on the part of the McCain campaign, when he ought to be talking about the issues.”
Milliken, a lifelong Republican, is among some past leaders from the party’s moderate wing voicing reservations and, in some cases, opposition to McCain’s candidacy.
I find it astonishing that we are facing the biggest financial crisis since the great depression, and McCain’s staff are more or less talking openly about how the need to change the subject off of economics.
In the same situation, Reagan, as much as I disagreed with him, would have had his allies do some negative campaigning for him and I am sure Reagan himself would have stood tall and expressed confidence in America. McCain lurches uncontrollably from one attack to another and seems to be trying to motivate Obama haters to do who knows what.
That’s not a leader
TWO SOCIALISTS ARE NOW RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT
The situation is now so bad that Republican presidential candidate, John McCain, tried to move to the left of the Democrat, Barack Obama, during Tuesday night’s debate by proposing that he would “order the secretary of the treasury to immediately buy up the bad home loan mortgages in America…” McCain didn’t explain where this authority would come from. But this proposal, which is estimated to cost $300 billion, followed his statement that “We obviously have to stop this spending spree that’s going on in Washington.”
On top of this monumental gaffe, in a tragic but humorous example of Washington doublespeak, the McCain campaign issued a statement calling this socialist proposal the “American Homeownership Resurgence Plan.”