Former Texas Republican Sen. Phil Gramm late Friday stepped down as co-chair of Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) presidential campaign. "It is clear to me that Democrats want to attack me rather than debate Sen. McCain on important economic issues facing the country," Gramm said. The former senator had been criticized for a remark in which he said that the economic slowdown was a "mental recession," and that the U.S. was a nation of "whiners." The campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) had seized on the remark and used it for a barrage of attacks on Gramm and McCain. "That kind of distraction hurts not only Sen. McCain's ability to present concrete programs to deal with the country's problems, it hurts the country," Gramm said. "To end this distraction and get on with the real debate, I hereby step down as co-chair of the McCain campaign and join the growing number of rank-and-file McCain supporters."
"It is clear to me that Democrats want to attack me rather than debate Sen. McCain on important economic issues facing the country," Gramm said.
The former senator had been criticized for a remark in which he said that the economic slowdown was a "mental recession," and that the U.S. was a nation of "whiners." The campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) had seized on the remark and used it for a barrage of attacks on Gramm and McCain.
"That kind of distraction hurts not only Sen. McCain's ability to present concrete programs to deal with the country's problems, it hurts the country," Gramm said. "To end this distraction and get on with the real debate, I hereby step down as co-chair of the McCain campaign and join the growing number of rank-and-file McCain supporters."
The Waaaaahmbulance has finally arrived, saving Bunsen from the Nation of Whiners.
Bye, Phil. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
What a smug, self-serving, hollow rattling empty shell of a human being.
