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Sounds like a great plan to me:

As a senator, I’ve seen the corrupt ways of Washington in wasteful spending and other abuses of power. As president I’m going to end these abuses — whatever it takes.

I will propose and sign into law reforms to bring tax relief to the middle class and help to businesses so they can create jobs…. I will get the rising cost of food and gas under control…. I will help families keep their home, and help students struggling to pay for college…. I will make health care more accessible and affordable. … I will impose a spending freeze on all but the most vital functions of government.

I will review every agency of the federal government, improve those that need to be improved and eliminate those that aren’t working for the American people…. I will confront the ten trillion-dollar debt that the federal government has run up, and balance the federal budget by the end of my term in office…

…on taxes, we see a difference between what Senator Obama says today, what he said yesterday, and what he has actually done. During the Democratic primary, he promised to double taxes on every American with a dividend or an investment. He promised to raise payroll taxes. He promised higher taxes on electricity. He voted for the Democratic budget resolution that promised to raise taxes on people making just 42,000 dollars a year.

And now all of the sudden Senator Obama claims he will give 95 percent of Americans tax relief. What he hasn’t told you is that he would tax half of the income of small business in America. These are the people who have actually added 350,000 jobs at a time when America lost 700,000 jobs. They are the backbone of our economy, and our best hope to get America back on track. When I’m president, their taxes are going down instead of up, and we’re going to help them create jobs for America.

On spending, Barack Obama will increase government spending by over 860 billion dollars. That’s on top of the trillions in debt that we’ve already burdened our children and grandchildren with. He claimed in our debate that somehow he’ll still end up with a net cut in spending, Only Barack Obama could sell an 860 billion dollar federal spending increase as a net reduction in federal spending.

When I’m president, the spending reductions will be real, and I’ll cut the size of government. I will put the government back on the side of America’s working families, and I will get this country moving again. (emphasis added)

Reform, spending reductions, smaller government…was someone out there wondering where the Reaganism had got to? It might have been hidden a bit by campaign finance reform, but it was residing in the heart and mind of John McCain all this time, and now he proposes to give us another dose of the medicine which cured us before, and will cure us again. And to just make things even better, he has selected a Reaganite Vice Presidential candidate – as Senator McCain might put it, “my friends, in McCain/Palin you might get as much as 16 years of unabashed Reaganism”. What more could a conservative and a Republican want?

I saw a longish ad from Barack Obama on TV this past evening, and in it he was earnestly pontificating on how the current financial crisis is proof that “trickle down” economics doesn’t work – which would be fine, if anyone had ever advocated something called “trickle down” economics. That was, of course, the phrase used to denigrate Reagan’s economic plan which, boiled down, was an assertion that the people will be better stewards of the national wealth than government would be. Obama, of course, realizes none of this – back during Reagan’s term he didn’t pay attention to what was going on and preferred to step into the leftwing world of make believe…and somewhere in there he was instructed that Reagan’s plan was “trickle down” economics. And now he says it doesn’t work – because of the financial crisis…which was actually caused by his own Democrats.

While he is well spoken and telegenic, Obama is a man who knows nothing – my concern about him becoming President is now only partially about the hard left policies he’ll pursue because he’s told to do so…my larger worry is that in his faltering, ignorant hands the whole world could go to heck in a handbasket. He’s a man who would actually believe the IMF when it says that all the world’s economies should coordinate their efforts during a crisis; he’s a man who would actually believe that the UN could take the lead in a global crisis; he’s a man who would actually believe that people will respect the United States if we would just conform ourselves to their expectations…he’s a man, in short, who will be played for a sucker on the world stage by every tinpot dictator and corrupt, Euro-trash politician on the make. American policy will become a plaything of the academic left while the real actions of the world are taken by nations who, even if they are wrong, believe in actual actions and actual consequences.

We can prevent all of this by the simple expedient of electing John McCain President of the United States. He will do things which will infuriate, at times, both the right and the left – but he’ll be honest, courageous and realistic. His actions will be governed by actualities, not by half-baked theories from colleges still stuck intellectually in 1968. In the end, I expect it will be so – that my fellow Americans will turn towards the proven fighter for America, rather than the empty suit with a grand, set-piece speaking style. The left will never forgive America for this – but, then again, they’ve always hated America and always will – but I do pray that honest liberals will do the right thing on November 4th – put aside their hatred of President Bush and vote for the better man with the better plan.