'Socialists taking over our country'

Which guy should be running for president?



(Via Hot Air.) Michelle Malkin doesn't like Maverick's reply:

McCain gets a softball -- and bungles again.
Banging. Head. Against. Wall.

She's also sick of Republican socialism:

A year ago, I might have gotten as worked up about this as everyone else seems to be.
But after watching a GOP White House and Republican collaborationists fork over billions upon billions in socialist aid to private businesses, presiding over the most massive nationalization efforts I've seen in my lifetime over the past year -- and then watching John McCain pitch his Treasury Department-as-national loan servicer plan during the debate -- it's hard for me to muster up much more angst than I already have.

This is how bad policy becomes bad politics. Give people a choice between a big-government Republican and a big-government Democrat, and you've taken the size-of-government argument off the table. If it's acceptable for the federal government to take over the mortgage industry, then what's not acceptable? Instead of arguing about policy, you're just arguing about personnel: Put Republicans in charge of the massive unconstitutional Leviathan!

"Jobs For The Boys" is not a winning slogan.