McCain Bashes Bush

I really have to question the wisdom of this rant:

(CNN) — John McCain lashed out at President Bush's record on a host of issues Wednesday, perhaps the Arizona senator's harshest criticism to date of his party's standard-bearer for the last eight years.

"Spending, the conduct of the war in Iraq for years, growth in the size of government, larger than any time since the Great Society, laying a $10 trillion debt on future generations of America, owing $500 billion to China, obviously, failure to both enforce and modernize the [financial] regulatory agencies that were designed for the 1930s and certainly not for the 21st century, failure to address the issue of climate change seriously," McCain told the Washington Times when asked to name his criticisms of the current president.

"Those are just some of them," McCain said, laughing.

While it might be popular among Democrats to bash Bush, I'm not so sure it's popular among the Republican base that McCain needs in order to win. He seems to think he can win by appealing to Independents and moderate Democrats, but without enthusiastic support among Republicans he hasn't got a chance.