Reagan's heir

In 1980, Ronald Reagan promised three things:

• Lower taxes
• A balanced budget
• Increased military spending

This was obvious bullshit from day one, but the media didn't care to notice about the last Teflon candidate.

In the end, we got one of them, increased military spending. Those early tax cuts had to be replaced because the deficit was so far out of control.

In 2008, John McCain promises three things:

• Lower taxes
• That "runaway Federal spending will end on my watch"
• A hundred years in Iraq if ever - oh so hopefully - the killing stops, merely indefinitely if it doesn't
  

Take a guess at which one we'll get if we elect this pretender.

Of course, McCain's not as handsome as the Gipper, and he can't deliver a speech as well, but at least he's older.