Hungry for red meat? Pete Wilson delivers! Posted on September 2nd
“I know we’re supposed to temper the combative tone that might otherwise escape,” former Gov. and U.S. Sen. Pete Wilson told Republican delegates from California Monday. “I confess to you that I am a lesser mortal. I find that difficult to do. But I’ll try.”
He didn’t try very hard. Wilson gave California Republicans everything they wanted to hear about Barack Obama and his Democrats: they are a tax-crazy, redistributionist, substance-free lot, and a little shady to boot.
With Republicans taking the high-profile step of lowering the convention’s profile — out of respect for Gulf Coast injured or displaced by Hurricane Gustav — there was little in the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul to get the blood pumping. But in the delegations, it was politics as usual.
“The audacity –- it’s a word that’s somewhat in vogue now, along with ‘change’ and ‘hope’ and ‘unity’ -– the audacity that Barack Obama is offering to us and to our children, the change that he is offering … quite frankly, is socialism,” Wilson told the breakfast crowd. Individual judgment is to be replaced with central planning. Taxes will skyrocket, and money will be taken from people who work for a living and given to people who don’t.
“One thing we know for certain is that Barack Obama is going to have a massive tax increase were he elected president,” Wilson said. “He would roll back the break of capital gains to discourage investment and job creation.”
Here, by the way, is part of what Obama said in Denver last week on taxes: