Irony, thy name is Republican in denial

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081018/ap_on_el_pr/mccain

So I read this headline of McCain saying that Obama's economic plans are socialism in disguise. What I as a libertarian find ironic, disconcerting and flat-out aggravating about this contention is: like McCain's policies are any different? This is something that pisses me off severely about the Republican Party: they lie and say they want smaller government but it seems that 99% of them do not apply this in practice. He may blow smoke up your happy asses by telling you he'll give you some tax cuts but I would really like to know how he'll cut your taxes while still wanting to keep government spending high on this dumbass war in Iraq and on his health care plan. (http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=what_is_mccains_economic_agenda) Now I'm no Ivy League economist but I am smart enough to know that if you want to spend money, you have to have the money in the first place. Businesses tend not to like it if you walk in to buy something with a sack of play money. Maybe his brand of government spending and jingoism isn't closer to socialism, maybe it's a bit closer to fascism, which tells you that the government is here to help you, to give you a sense of pride and identity and to rescue you from turbulent, scary times. Damn. *That* scares me. The following quotation can be found on Wikipedia if you woud like to read more:

A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion. – Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism


External expansion. Kinda like keeping this war going and kinda like keeping America set up in its position as the world's policeman? Think about it.