I wound up voting for him. I’m not convinced we would have done more than 25-40% better.
He would have solidified nationalized health care. We would never have gone back to private.
He would have allowed the military to languish.
He would have spent like there was no tomorrow.
We would probably have granted amnesty to the illegal aliens by now.
There would be no closed border.
We wouldn’t have a guy running now that wants to do about 90% of what we want him to.
I think that's why both McCain and Romney lay down and "took one for the team". The deal was done in 2008 before the election, and I will remember forever that American Enterprise Institute fronted for the Lords Ordainers, the ones who tell the GOP what to do.
The GOP put employer-paid healthcare in the toilet and gave the Dems all those sick babies and old people as their political hostages forever through Obamacare and its successors.
Notice that, if Obamacare is abolished, nobody's getting his employer-paid healthcare plan back. Everyone will be on his own, facing costs and premiums jacked up by 70 years of third-party-payer-fueled price inflation. Which is exactly what all those Fortune 500 CEO's and CFO's wanted. Stiff the working stiffs, and take your management bonuses to Hawaii.