Say It Ain't So

Ye Gods, John McCain needs help with principles?

Bless his heart and call me old fashioned but didn't principles use to be what helped make a man's character?

This is why the Republicans have lost and lost big these last two election cycles. To have to go to an outside source to see what they should believe.

Sen. John McCain is putting together a major economic plan that will be structured, in some ways, off of Newt Gingrich's famous Contract With America.

In an email obtained by the Huffington Post, the Arizona Republican's chief of staff, Marc Buse, asked an outside adviser for help with a "ten principles" program that the senator could use as a "definitive" platform.

"We are looking for some guidance on a definitive plan (aka contract with america style) on the economy...principles," writes Buse. "Ten principles that JSM could point to on what MUST BE DONE to address the problems our nation faces."

No principles to stand on, no character, and no dinner plate at the policy table.