Posted on 09/04/2012 4:37:54 AM PDT by Kaslin
One difference between 2012 and 1980? President Obama retains a reservoir of goodwill President Carter never acquired.
Goodwill ACQUIRED? Goodwill bought with our tax dollars!
Yet, one wonders: After such a campaign, how does Obama unite and lead the country should he win.
Obama, he’s a leader not a uniter.
It will be toe the line or be crushed.
Another small difference is that Mitt Romney is no Ronald Reagan!
Exactly! He’s far from a Ronald Reagan, and that’s worth a few worry wrinkles IMO.
Pissin and moaning about Romney is not going to get us through this election.
Perhaps the problem was that with "every remedy he tried", he tried too much.
There was another economic collapse in 1920; President Harding essentially did nothing but cut tax rates, and that depression ended quickly.
Pat, you're smarter than that.
It should be obvious to you that The Wøn does not want to unite the country; he wants to balkanize it and then lead it down the road into a third-world socialist hell-hole.
You have a problem with a statement of fact?
You are right, Duncan.
Romney can look to Hoover for what not to do. Hoover’s progressive policies were little different from FDR’s crap.
Harding’s VP did even more after Harding’s death.....
Coolidge’s taxation policy was that of his Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew Mellon: taxes should be lower and fewer people should have to pay them.[115] Congress agreed, and the taxes were reduced in Coolidge’s term.[115] In addition to these tax cuts, Coolidge proposed reductions in federal expenditures and retiring some of the federal debt.[115] Coolidge’s ideas were shared by the Republicans in Congress, and in 1924 Congress passed the Revenue Act of 1924, which reduced income tax rates and eliminated all income taxation for some two million people.[115] They reduced taxes again by passing the Revenue Acts of 1926 and 1928, all the while continuing to keep spending down so as to reduce the overall federal debt.[116] By 1927, only the richest 2% of taxpayers paid any federal income tax.[116] Although federal spending remained flat during Coolidge’s administration, allowing one-fourth of the federal debt to be retired, state and local governments saw considerable growth, surpassing the federal budget in 1927.[117]
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This is why Obama is not going to debate Romney.
He might appear on the stage with Romney, but the “moderators” are going to cover for him. It won’t be a debate. It will not be a debate - it will be a “roast” of Romney with Obama an the MSM working together.
It will not be a debate - it will be a “roast” of Romney with Obama and the MSM working together.
IMHO this is why Romney should refuse to debate unless he can name half of the moderators.
A lot of Northern Democrats never warmed up to Carter because he was a Southerner and openly religious. Liberals had an alternative to voting for Carter in 1980—John Anderson. Obama doesn’t have to worry about a third-party candidate dividing his vote. I don’t remember in detail the media coverage of the 1980 election but I’m sure the mainstream media is much more committed to Obama than they were to Carter.
“IMHO this is why Romney should refuse to debate unless he can name half of the moderators.”
Well ... You just read how Reagan won by debunking the Carter lies by merely getting on a stage and being his genial self.
Romney will do the same. No matter who moderates it, just having the chance to challenge obama’s lies face to face will bring dividends.
BS. His statist response severely exacerbated the problem.
Had Coolidge been in there and behaved sensibly we might remember the event as the Panic of 1929.
bump!!
Thus gave us the roaring 20’s. Tax and spending cuts.
[ This is why Obama is not going to debate Romney.
He might appear on the stage with Romney, but the “moderators” are going to cover for him. It won’t be a debate. It will not be a debate - it will be a “roast” of Romney with Obama an the MSM working together. ]
exacrly. I hope Romney is prepared to call the moderators out. I hope enough Americans eyes have been opened to the hyper-partisan, lying media.
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