John Harwood on John McCain\"Morning Joe\"7:05amPanelTOPIC: McCain calling Obama Socialist\n\nTRANSCRIPT: WILLIE GEIST: Now (the Redistribution of wealth issue) just fell into his lap, because of something Barack Obama said, why haven\'t they been seizing on this earlier? [..]\n\nJOE SCARBOROUGH: [...]They really should have seized on it earlier, [...]the second Obama talked about spreading the wealth, they should have been a lot more aggressive, you\'ve got- what is your theme? And you go with one theme and you hammer it home, especially when you have all of this- the clutter out there, and they haven\'t done that...\n\nJOHN HARWOOD: It may be thoughguys,[...]because they knew about this ahead of time but an earlier point in the campaign, when they weren\'t as needy as they are now, thought it was ridiculous, because it is ridiculous. \n\nSCARBOROUGH: What\'s ridiculous?\n\nHARWOOD: This whole redistributive change stuff. \n\nSCARBOROUGH: That\'s ridiculous to you?HARWOOD: John McCain favors redistribution, okay? He favors a progressive tax system, he favors refundable healthcare tax credits to people who don\'t pay taxes, which is what he\'s attacking Barack Obama for, his solution for social security is to take money that\'s scheduled to go in benefits for rich people and give it to people who make less money...\n\nSCARBOROUGH: Okay, you\'re talking about John McCain and [...]\n\nHARWOOD: I\'m talking about John McCain and what I\'m saying is the exact charge that he\'s making against Barack Obama- that he favors policies that take more from people at the topand give to people at the bottom- he also favors.\n\nSCARBOROUGH: Okay, if you want to go down that path, you can say that John McCain also is one of the only two republicans that voted against this tax, the Bush tax cuts, which he\'s now championing [...]\n\nHARWOOD: Yes, yes! Which is part of the incoherence problem that you mentioned earlier, saying he was against it and now he\'s for it. \n\nSCARBOROUGH: But if this is the tack they\'ve decided to take they should have weighed in, and I agree with you completely[...]\n\nHARWOORD: You\'re right\n\nSCARBOROUGH: But I will tell you, I am personally concerned by any politician that talks about the redistribution of wealth- that the Warren court was not radical enough, I\'m concerned when somebody tells a guy that wants to start a small business that he should be for spreading the wealth- these are things that cause concerns, not just conservative- fiscal conservatives [...]\n\nHARWOOD: It\'s a matter of degree \n\nSCARBOROUGH: [...]McCain, in the end, is just not the man to fight back against this message is he?[...] There would be better fiscal conservatives to carry this message forward, right?\n\nMARK HALPERIN: There\'s no question. [...] But isn\'t itthe case, that if one of these guys is president for eight years, after eight years, if Barack Obama\'s president, the government would be substantially bigger, than if John McCain were president for eight years [...]\n\nHARWOOD: I would say bigger, I don\'t know how substantially bigger. [...]When thecandidate who\'s accusing him of wanting to redistribute, is also proposing the same thing, it sort of sounds like just words.\n[...]\n\nLABEL: JM JM MSNBC 10-28-08 7.05 (LAD#63)U "Morning, Joe", McCain, Obama, Socialism