Phil is right, below, to question McCain’s hiring criteria in
general. Now, with regard to the specific choice of Andrew Cuomo,
not only is Cuomo a liberal Democratic showboat a la Eliot Spitzer,
but he also bears a large part of the blame for
the policies that got us into this mess. It’s as if McCain is
just so ignorant that he doesn’t even realize that he is directly
contradicting himself. It was Cuomo who encouraged Fannie and
Freddie to run wild. Now McCain is angry that Fannie and Feddie ran
wild — so he wants Cuomo to be the guardian over a market
suffering from the “wilding” ways of Fannie and Freddie. Like
sending Baker to Israel, it makes no sense. About the only thing it
does is extend a prominent middle finger in the direction of
conservatives, just for the fun of doing so.
