Losing one fellow’s vote
In the New Hampshire debate, McCain asserted that corruption is the reason drugs currently cannot be reimported from Canada. The reason is “the power of the pharmaceutical companies.” When Mitt Romney interjected, “Don’t turn the pharmaceutical companies into the big bad guys,” McCain replied, “Well, they are.” There is a place in American politics for moralizers who think in such Manichaean simplicities. That place is in the Democratic Party
