Posted on 12/28/2019 5:15:31 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
Bill Clinton aide James Carville once famously remarked that when it came to winning elections, its the economy, stupid.
This dictum has led many observers to surmise that the currently strong U.S. economy makes President Trump a shoo-in for re-election in 2020. But what these observers overlook is that between now and November 2020 there can be many an economic slip between cup and lip. This would seem to be especially the case at a time when the IMF estimates that 90 percent of the world's economies are now already experiencing slowdowns.
This was the lesson that John McCain (R-Ariz.) painfully learned as the U.S. and global economies took a nosedive on the eve of the November 2008 presidential election, after having started the year on a seemingly sound footing.
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This “writer” is an idiot.
He’s right. The economy doesn’t make Trump invincible. What does is running against a Borg collective of dumbasses who will destroy it if they win.
No, people like you are what makes President Trump invincible.
If Soros plunges the economy right before the election, the election fraud to defeat Trump could be accepted more credibly.
If it weren't a republican, the media would conclude cause and effect: Our economy is strong because of our president. But it's Trump, so the propagandists pretend that it's only a coincidence that we have a record economy during a global economic downturn. The legacy media is disgustingly dishonest.
I doubt the bubble will burst unless the fed decides to collude with the Dems...and President Trump will not be shy in calling them out and making a good argument for shutting down and/or reorganizing the Fed...
Some small dips and bumps and coming on like gangbusters around election season is my guess.
2008 and 2020 couldnt be more different.
Trump is an incumbent President, running for a second term after keeping faith with his campaign promises to put Americas interests first. President Trump is BELOVED by his pragmatic voter coalition of Republicans, patriotic Independents, and blue collar Democrats who are sick of their partys rejection of free enterprise and the entrepreneurial spirit, in favor of minority pandering, socialism and the global corruptacracy. Anyone who voted for the President in 2016 simply CANT WAIT to vote for him again, joined by tens of millions more who will choose the known incumbent over the unknown Democrat jackass.
McCain was a nasty, old, two-faced, global establishment RINO Senator, beloved by no one, who had the misfortune of running against the clean, well-spoken affirmative action candidate. If he hadnt picked Sarah Palin as his running mate, I doubt he would have won a single state.
As for the economy stupid - the US economy in 2008 was a bubble in the midst of bursting, not the capital rich, job-creating envy of the world as it is in 2020.
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776)Considering that the wire services and their memberships are in continual virtual meetings, you have to be naive indeed to assume anything other than that they conspire against the public.Hint: journalists are objective is a logical fallacy, sheer propaganda, and motivation for all jouralists to go along and get along with each other.
Agreed
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