“YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE”

John “no more torture and this time I pretend I really mean it” McCain had a “town hall meeting” as part of his 08 campaign, in New Hampshire:

“I’m not getting anything I really need and my grandchildren are getting saddled with $9 trillion in debt,” said Diamond, a Keene retiree. “Why should I vote Republican?”

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Because, McCain replied, Democrats have also voted to increase federal spending. “Maybe,” the Arizona Republican suggested, “you should vote for the vegetarians.”

“Republicans are in charge of three Houses,” she snapped back. “You have no excuse.”
And then McCain overtly expressed regrets that he didn’t resort to Bush-style town hall tactics:

McCain then said:

“I knew we should have cut this thing off.”