The Tea Party Got It Right, Mitt Got It Wrong

FrontPage Magazine ^ | November 7, 2012 | Daniel Greenfield

[antceecee]

Agree. Great post. Hope there are people out there who think the same and can implement these actions.

[Darksheare]

Creepers?
You’re really working it tonight.
Just so precious.

[tsowellfan]

Conveniently forgetting the economic collapse on Dumbo Dubya’s watch

YOU are the culprit, my friend. According to the exit polls it is your statement that was the reason why many voted for Obama.

I'm NO big fan of GW Bush especially his second term. But your statment is what gave us Obama in 2008 and it gave us Obama in 2012.

Here's the truth

... From 2002 through 2006 Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid continuously called 4.7% unemployment under Bush, the GOP led Senate and the GOP led House as the worst economy since Herbert Hoover. They spent 2 years campaigning with this mantra.

The democrats spent 2 years campaigning against the "terrible economic" numbers threatening to raise taxes on businesses. They won.

The day after the democrats won both the Senate and House is when the economic downturn really started. Busnesses started tightening their belts the day after the elections. Just like to see the reaction of the stock market today.

Unfortunately Bush's silence on these accusations and some republicans including Romney who publically accept this false narrative as truth (because they hope to get some democrats to move to their side and vote for them)the American people have no reason to doubt that Obama's economy was Bush's doing. This is a democrat economy that started after the democrats won both houses.

Your statement is the primary reason why we lost last night. The exit polls show that.

Lame duck Bush's bailouts didn't help either. But if the economy was good under Pelosi/Reid, there would be no need for a bailout in the first place.

[KantianBurke]

“The democrats spent 2 years campaigning against the “terrible economic” numbers threatening to raise taxes on businesses. They won.”

Actually that was due to Rummy the Dummy mismanaging the Iraqi occupation to the point the country was tearing itself apart but nice try at rewriting history. And odd how you make no mention of Medicare Part D, NCLB, CFR or any of the other big government fail that a GOP controlled Congress pooped out.

[tsowellfan]

The chart provided in my post #243 is proof that the only one rewriting history is you.

[tsowellfan]

FlashBack: Nancy Pelosi: "Worst Economy Since Herbert Hoover"

[publana]

A voice of reason. Thank you.

[KantianBurke]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/08/politics/main2161309.shtml

Yeah. Iraq had nothing to so with it. - rolls eyes -

[tsowellfan]

A cBS link?

NO thanks

[KantianBurke]

- shrugs - If you’d like, a quick Google search will turn up plenty of articles from Fox News or NR laying out the same case. But you wouldn’t want to have your fantasy land disturbed now would you?

[cdcdawg]

All Mitt had to do was get out as many voters as the pathetic John McCain managed. All the talk about the 47% (looters), the “browning” electorate, the gender gap, and all of that is mostly noise. The Republican base stayed home. Mormon issue? RINO issue? Both? Something else? That question of why is of the utmost importance, and I have no doubt that the GOP’s collective brain-trust will get it wrong.

Again, the Republicans stayed home.

[tsowellfan]

The economic downturn started under Pelosi/Reid.

The stats show that.

I was no big fan of Bush. He had many faults. I'm not going to lay all of them out here because he is not the issue. Obama is President and continues to blame Bush for his economy (with the help of some republicans who feel that conceding that false narrative will somehow help them gain a Christie/Obama type relationship with democrats and win their vote).

It's not going to happen. You don't win by participating in a lie. Especially when that lie is created to beat the republicans whether they be RINOs, Conservatives, Constitutionalists, Tea Party or Birthers and yes Libertarians too and any other party that is NOT the democrat party.

This false Herbert Hoover charge was made DURING good economic times under President Bush and continued until they finally took control of both Houses which resulted in the economic situation we are in.

[tsowellfan]

I don’t need to Google this issue. I was here. I was watching it unfold. I was in agreement with 99% of the Freepers who were outraged that Pelosi was claiming that the economy which was at a 4.7% unemployment rate was the worst economy since Herbert Hoover. I watched other Freepers as they commented that this lady’s trying to manipulate a good economy to turn bad for political reasons. When you live it, you don’t need to Google it. But I can Google back-up to the facts I laid out but since I’m on FreeRepublic and not DU, USENET or Twitter I feel I should not have to. That’s YOUR job.

[dowcaet]

Karl Rove and Dick Morris have been exposed as the worthless hack punditry clowns that they are. I can’t believe both these guys were actually part of winning presidential campaigns.

[Feline_AIDS]

But how much of their female support is from single moms on welfare voting to keep the welfare coming?

Not that many. Most of the female support is from the low-information social-issues voter who believed the war-on-women narrative.

Most young women are gullible, and they really desire stability. They don't want it from a husband anymore, so they turn to Uncle Sam.

[dadfly]

finally after holding my tongue since the primaries.

romney was an incredibly weak candidate. the weakest of all of them.

my gosh, he couldn’t even get close to mccains 2008 totals. the simple reason, he was to the left of mccain!

[dadfly]

we even won down ticket with the romney boat anchor.

people i supported down ticket. bachmann, rothfus, barr, arpaio, ... got through. we even played a role in getting rid of stark “raving mad” with our guy pareja weakening him.

and as for west, i think senator west has a nice ring to it.

we can continue to fight no matter what the circumstances.

[D-fendr]

I agree with your post, except for this:

>> the leadership has foisted worthless presidential candidates on the party

I don’t feel like anyone was foisted on me. I never liked the field that ran, and the one I picked of the bunch, not enough others - on here and elsewhere - wanted him to win either.

We need some good conservative candidates, but I don’t know who. I don’t blame the party or the leadership for that.

[D-fendr]

Most people I talked to said “ there’s not much difference between them”

I think that's just as stupid.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

You were’nt talking to a conservative.You got played.