This just in from John McCain’s lips at a Waukesha, Wisconsin town hall meeting, with his sidekick, Sarah Palin.  When asked by a realtor in the audience if he would go after, prosecute, and name names of those criminals responsible for causing the housing crisis, John McCain said he would.  The meeting was broadcast on CNN.

“And you know the names…Congressman Barney Frank and Senator Chris Dodd were willing co-conspirators.”

Unless I’m mistaken, McCain has just alleged that they were not merely wrong in their positions, but were part of a criminal conspiracy.  Anybody from Justice listening?   Perhaps you could have your crack investigators try to locate these two dangerous accused felons and arrest them.  Now that would certainly make for some interesting pre-election news.

But did Candidate McCain actually mean to say that these two government officials are criminals?  Or was that John McCain naming names of people in the Democratic party so that the public will stop looking at the Republicans as being responsible for the fiscal disaster?

One should be a little cautious in making criminal accusations.  I hope McCain was throwing these accusations around lightly.