Whatever happened to Bush’s promised balanced budget? Did it go the way of his compassionate conservatism?

Remember the surpluses of the Clinton years that Bush and anti-tax Republicans squandered? Remember when John McCain opposed tax cuts skewed toward the wealthy? Mr. McCain is now walking in lockstep with GOP deficit hawks and embracing the spend and borrow economic policy of the Bush administration.

This seems redundant, but, will the Republican Party change its economic ways with John McCain in the White House?

Barack Obama will return America to economic resposibility and feasibility and just possibly to surpluses again. The Democratic financial advisors who helped Clinton correct the prior Bush’s mess are ready in waiting.

Ron Lowe

Grass Valley, Calif.