It’s Bizzaro World on the Campaign Trail
I guess if you live long enough, you see everything. This week, John McCain proffered a multi-billion dollar plan to have the federal government buy up all the home mortgages in the country that have fallen into default and then revalue them to current home values. A plan that would put us billions more into debt and reward the lenders who made bad loans and the homeowners that got themselves into mortgages they knew they couldn’t afford.
Did I mention that the plan was put forward by John McCain, the REPUBLICAN candidate for president? And guess who’s opposed to the government intervening in this way. Yeah, “that one”, the Democratic contender. If I’m not mistaken, aren’t the Republicans supposed to be in favor of smaller government and less intervention in the free market? And isn’t it the Democrats who have traditionally been accused of being the “tax and spend” party? And isn’t this the same John McCain who pretty much made his career on being a fiscal conservative, the watchdog for your tax dollars?
Apparently not. Apparently we’re living in some kind of election year Bizzaro World in which up is down, left is right, and Republicans are Democrats. Except, of course, when it comes to keeping the government out of your bedroom and other personal business. Then they’re still Republicans.
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by David Boaz or 
by David Bergland, both excellent books on libertarian thought.
