John McCain's figured out why the GOP lost big in the last election. Exit polling showed that corruption in government was the biggie in 2006, with terrorism running 2nd. According to CNN, "By a wide margin, Americans who voted Tuesday in the midterm election say they disapprove of the war in Iraq." Other issues mentioned by voters as motivation for their vote were the economy and illegal immigration. But McCain's basically telling us the exit polling is wrong.Not content to take voters at their word, McCain tells us why we really voted against republicans by wide margins -- runaway spending.
Associated Press:
Republicans spent their way into losing control of Congress, presidential candidate John McCain says.
"The reason why we lost that election, my dear friends, was because we let spending get out of control," McCain told a breakfast crowd Saturday. "We came to power in 1994 to change government and government changed us."
Spending has been bad -- really bad, in fact -- and I'm sure that it had something to do with the GOP rout. But to say that it was the reason is more than a little dishonest. It didn't even rate in exit polling. And here's a secret that John McCain may not know -- voters tend to know why they're voting. So if you ask them and they tell you, you should probably believe them.
McCain has good reason to try to make spending the issue. It's probably the easiest for a president to fix, since it's the president who submits the budget. But McCain has his own spending problem -- he's addicted to military spending. He'll throw money down a rathole as long as said rathole has some guy in a uniform standing next to it...
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