...se hubiera opuesto al "bailout". Bryan Caplan da buenas razones:
McCain should have opposed the bailout. There was a lot of popular resentment of it; it would have put a mile's distance between McCain and Bush's failures; it would have given McCain a great populist issue to ride; and it would have put Obama in the awkward position of defending Bush to the country. Even though the public wanted to "do something," McCain could easily have screamed "Yea, but not this!" from the rooftops - and people would have listened.
Por el contra-argumento también es persuasivo:
The main counter-argument: If McCain had opposed the bailout, it might not have passed - making it much harder to campaign against it. Indeed, Obama might have seen the trap and opposed the bailout, too, making it even harder for McCain to make the bailout his central issue.
En cualquier caso Caplan cree que McCain hubiera tenido más posibilidades de haberse opuesto al rescate. Tenía que poco que perder, tal y como estaban las apuestas.
