Posted on 10/11/2012 5:31:00 AM PDT by STJPII
Romney should say something along the lines of “Mr. President, I know you were a little young and coked up in 1981, so let me tell you, the economy you inherited was many factors better than the economy Jimmy Carter passed along to Ronald Reagan. Amazingly enough, he was able to turn that economy around in just a few years and didn’t spend us into oblivion in the process.”
Well, I think in terms of strategy you don’t want to engage in a way that makes the debate about arguing over whether Bush had the worst economy or not.
While it is one of many untruths, tackling an untruth takes the conversation down a new path, and I’m not sure this election needs to be about 2008. It needs to be about 2012. Just like Clinton didn’t focus on Dukakis vs Bush 41...he focused on Bush 41 and the economy like a laser.
yes that was when I just started voting and Phil Gramm was my rep from Arlington TX. He wasn’t “that” bad back then. And I believe Jim Wright was also that era from over in Fort Worth. I don’t know IF he is still alive . . . last I heard he was teaching a political science course over at TCU.
The worst part of this lie is that they’ve now taken to calling it the Great Recession.
I think Paul Ryan is chomping at the bit to hear Biden bring that up tonight - Ryan will crush that one out of the park........
Exactly! Its just more create a lie and repeat it we have a 1:1 correlation between when the dems took over Congress and things went to hell.
That's not what is going on here.Of course tarp was a joke. It was a huge con and Bush was conned into doing it,IMHO, signing off on it. As I recall many dems were for it as well. The key thing here is that most of the 786 billion was paid back! They have no argument!
Opinions differ.The only reason Bush was sold down the road is that he didn’t fight back and we didn’t fight back hard enough for him.Its never too late.ONce again, all they have going for them is creating a lie repeating it and getting the DBM to repeat it until it is acknowledged as true,but its not.
Sheesh, it hasn’t been paid back. Arguing for TARP and against Obama’s spending is a loser. Just argue that TARP and the reckless spending of Obama are one and the same.
Romney only needs to point out the facts, that the problems began when the RATs took control of congress in January ‘07. By his inauguration in January ‘09, Obama found himself presiding over a major decline and subsequently worsened it with his policies.
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