Or maybe he is so caught up in the Obamania that he can’t see anything good in anything but Obama. Listen to how Rosenbaum talks about the Obama fundraiser he went to. “Walking in the door, things were different. There was no huge Obama For President banner… Wainwright performed his song "Going to a Town."…[it] has the theme 'I'm so sick of American."…But then - in a hopeful note, he closed with "hallelujah" which was incredibly moving…. The seriousness of the event was strangely inspirational….I left the Paula Cooper Gallery on Saturday with a real sense of the important work ahead, and the opportunity to be part of something really important.” Need I refer Rosenbaum to www.getoverobama.com? But I digress.

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Rosenbaum complains, “Yesterday, under pressure from someone or something, McCain came out with his economic 'plan'…McCain gets to continue in Iraq. The Bush tax cuts are made permanent (the tax cuts McCain opposed!). There's relieve for foreclosures that are the result of the mortgage mess, and - wait for it - CORPORATE TAX RELIEF. I love that one.”

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First off, McCain opposed the Bush tax cuts because he wanted Congress to come up with a better plan for tax cuts, not because he opposed them in principle. Secondly, as far as spending, Rosenbaum’s self-identified “man,” Barack also supports relief for foreclosures. The difference is Obama wants to spend more than McCain does.

As for the corporate tax relief, I have a few questions for Rosenbaum. How do you expect to keep American companies that provide jobs and tax revenue in America if you don’t relieve these excessive taxes? Do you suppose your man’s socialist policies will keep companies here while his policies limit the amount that a CEO can earn to 5 times the amount of the lowest paid full time employee? Or should we break our trade agreements that so far have helped stabilize our economy in a downturn?

Look, the problem with all of this is that these socialist policies are the very things that are driving American individuals down. This is so basic; I often wonder why it is even controversial. If more companies are here (and taxes are lower), tax revenue will increase because work and productivity will increase. More Americans will have jobs and they will pay taxes. Here in California we’ve lost tax revenue because companies and wealthy families are forced to move because they can’t afford the high taxes. It’s even worse in San Francisco. For example, restaurant owners can’t give their cooks a pay raise because the city keeps raising the minimum wage which forces the owner to raise the pay for servers who make tips. Meanwhile, this liberal policy hurts the cooks. The hard-working, blue collar, (often Mexican) laborers are actually hurt by liberal controls on the market.

Protectionism and trade is a different issue. I don’t claim to understand the issue fully. It is complicated. The only point I want to make here is that with open trade, you gain jobs and you lose jobs. That’s the nature of the market. Ohio, as I understand, lost jobs in steal manufacturing because of trade, but they gained almost as many jobs in steal distribution because of trade. I won’t say anymore for fear of misspeaking.

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Then Rosenbaum reiterates his confused thinking:

“By rolling back the Federal Government's 18 cent per gallon gas tax. Really. Truly. This is great math….

We'll collect less taxes. We'll spend more money. We'll give tax breaks to corporations. And in the end - we'll come out ahead.

[McCain’s] proven that he's prepared to continue the 8 years of Bush reckless spending.”

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I know Rosenbaum doesn’t understand that lowering taxes will actually help Americans and may actually increase tax revenue. But he criticizes McCain for promulgating Bush spending after McCain explicitly stated that Republican’s, including Bush, need to restore the GOP as the party of fiscal responsibility and stop all of the irresponsible spending. McCain’s record, unlike Obama’s, actually supports this view.

Finally, Rosenbaum accuses McCain of pandering. I’m not sure if Rosenbaum is aware that responding to the American people is not pandering. If Americans want lower taxes, why not give Americans lower taxes? I know Rosenbaum believes liberals like him know how to spend other peoples’ money better than they do, but really?

You know? I get my news from the Google News page. Why do they even allow Huffington Post blogs on their page? Huffington Post is perverted, twisted, and their posters use sarcasm to cover up a lack of thoughtful commentary. I’d like to see a well-written Townhall.com column up on Google News. But Google is run by the same liberals that run the news media. Alas, conservatism survives in the hearts and souls of the American people and the news media is left to wonder why they are losing the culture war.