Conservative economic historian Amity Shlaes tiptoes around it a little bit, but her take on the Phil Gramm affair boils down to this: (1) Phil Gramm was right, but impolitic. (2) McCain needs to stand by Gramm ideologically, if not tonally.
Conservative backlash against McCain
Conservative economic historian Amity Shlaes tiptoes around it a little bit, but her take on the Phil Gramm affair boils down to this: (1) Phil Gramm was right, but impolitic. (2) McCain needs to stand by Gramm ideologically, if not tonally.