FINALLY!

Note to Team Sith: ARE YOU F'ING PAYING ATTENTION?!?  ARE YOU GOING TO GLOM THIS NRCC AD AND BLAST IT INTO EVERY CORNER OF THE FREAKIN' COUNTRY between now and Election Day?

You'd bloody well better:

Ace sez:

More of this. More of this. Nothing but this for the next thirty-two days.

The election hangs on this single issue.

The public believes Republicans caused this disaster, and we'll lose based on that misperception.

The Democrats actually caused it -- but Republicans, beginning at the top off the ticket, are inexplicably shy about saying so.

More of this. More of this.

Ace is right.  But John McCain does not approve of that message:

Expect McCain to make the case on television, but don't look for him to turn to Obama in the next debate, point his finger, and say something like this (courtesy of the Ace of Spades HQ blog):

I stayed away from making these partisan attacks, even though you lied ridiculously about me and your own attempts at 'reform.' I held back, because partisan attacks — even truthful ones — would harm our country and reduce the chances of getting a vital bill passed. Well, the bill is now passed. I put country first. You didn't, and you lied on top of that. And now — only now that this crisis has been dealt with, to the extent we can — I'm going to give you a bit of straight-talk about Fannie, Freddie, my attempts to reform it, and your attempts to block reform on behalf of your big donors and friends in ACORN.

Nope, that is not going to happen. Why not?

1) It is a complicated argument, and McCain is not good at making complicated arguments, not even about earmarks. (Note, additionally, his lack of defense of the war in Iraq during his debate with Obama. Amazing.)

2) There is a racial component to criticism of the Community Reinvestment Act that can make it sound like you are scapegoating minorities for Wall Street's problems.

3) The campaign believes McCain's time is better spent talking about taxes and energy and healthcare. Really.

Or, in still more distilled terms...

1) McCain is an inarticulate boob;

2) The same RINO timidity that dissuaded most Republicans from braving the obligatory Donk racial demogoguery to overrule Chris Dodd and Barney Frank when they were in the majority and put the brakes on the Fannie/Freddie gravy train before it was too late;

3) McCain is surrounded by purblind idiots.

I gotta wonder, though; with The One already running around lying like a rug in order to lay the foundation for the final communization of the American economy, if Maverick does glom the NRCC offering above, isn't that belated straight talk at least somewhat likely to come up in the two remaining debates?  And doesn't that possibility argue AGAINST such straight talk animating Darth Queeg's marketing spots, particularly in light of their highly conspicuous absence so far?

On the other hand, why does the argument have to be complicated?  J-Ger seems to summarize it well:

[T]he market wasn't running free; the government, through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, loaned billions of dollars to people you wouldn't loan $200 to because you didn't trust them to pay it back. Then, through the Community Reinvestment Act, they punished banks that didn't make enough loans to people who do not have the credit, assets, income, or down payment to qualify for a normal mortgage, a.k.a. the subprime market.

No one in their right minds loans money to somebody who they think won't pay it back. But the government said banks had to, for reasons of "fairness".