[maryz]

“We are going to use this convention to answer those questions,” said Obama campaign press secretary Ben LaBolt. “We're going to have an honest conversation about where we were in 2008 when we were losing 800,000 jobs a month, 3.5 million jobs lost in the six months before the president took office, manufacturing was in decline, the auto industry was on the brink.

I wish the Republicans weren't so determined (apparently) to distance themselves from Bush and would pound home -- in every race -- the fact that Bush's first 6 years were quite good economically (I read that even the deficit was going down due to increased revenues from the "Bush era" tax cuts). Of course, there's that MSNBC story castigating Bush for playing golf when unemployment had hit 5.4%(!!!). The economy started to tank when the Dems took Congress.

Surely there are Republican staffers who could put together charts showing the economy through those years at least (maybe even go back to Clinton and how the economy was at best lack-luster -- until after '94 when the Republicans took Congress) and how a Dem Congress is a disaster no matter who has the White House!

Comparing now to especially those last months of Bush isn't so dramatic a contrast as they need.

[sirchtruth]

It doesn't matter right now. Obama and the dems have DESTROYED themselves with their over zealous socialist implementation. Republicans can never match this to show the dems utter failure with anything they have that's comparatively better, popular, good or productive.

I'm not disagreeing with your point I'm just saying stay out of the way of the socialist/marxist destruction and let America fire Obama's sorry ass!.