Wot!!?

What's to complain about? Finally, the Republican party in the United States appears ready to nominate a candidate for president of their country who may be interested in performing worthwhile actions on behalf of the country. And all of its people, not merely the haves.

Heaven knows, America could use some help right about now, given its pathetic state of self-doubt, so unlike America.

Mired in a miserable war it imposed on another country's people, a war that is costing its treasury painfully huge debt, much to the delight of other countries, like China. Complacent in its erstwhile economic plenitude and eager to haul the underclass into the American dream of home ownership, something went awry on the oversight, and now there's economic collapse.

Bad enough that millions of Americans cannot afford decent medical care, nor take comfort in medical insurance in the event of personal health catastrophies. Plain painful that huge multinationals with their huge advertising and public relations leverage over peoples' common sense, inform government.

Now here's a candidate who actually has a conscience, some thought for the underbelly of society, the working poor, those who struggle daily to achieve a bare minimum of requirement to sustain their undernourished, under-housed, under-educated, underprivileged families. At least it appears - somewhat - that way.

Yet here's some social curmudgeon of a capitalist neo-conservative, writing in The New Republic to wring his metaphoric hands in despair and contempt over the Republican-seditious bent of the man. Citing his co-operation with John Edwards and Ted Kennedy in co-sponsoring a patients' bill of rights. Good on him!

Grieving over John McCain's having co-sponsored a bill with Chuck Schumer allowing the re-importation of prescription drugs and another permitting wider sales of generic alternatives - all fiercely contested by President Bush and his cronies. Understandably; what do they care that Americans pay more for prescription drugs than any other nation on earth?

Lament that Senator McCain teamed with Carl Levin on bills closing down tax shelters and requiring businesses that give out stock options as compensation to reveal the cost to their stockholders. Ha! More power to him; less power to all those wealth-inspired tax shelters, and sneaky businesses seeking other ways to replenish their power base without informing stockholders.

Measures bitterly opposed by big business? Damn right they would be. And the person on the street is supposed to be fed up with John McCain for his stance on one occasion after another to go to bat for the little guy at the expense of corporate interests?

A break, give us a break.