Posted on 11/02/2009 5:09:47 AM PST by markomalley
Just as they did in the 2008 elections, Democrats running in the top 2009 elections in New Jersey, New York and Virginia have sought to tie their Republican or conservative opponent to former President George W. Bush. Here's a sampling of the attacks:
"Voters have a clear choice on Tuesday: They can elect to go back to the George Bush economic agenda, or they can vote to move forward," read a statement released Saturday by Democrat Bill Owens, who is opposing Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman for New York's 23rd Congressional District seat.
"What can you expect from Chris Christie? A governor who'll repeat the failed Bush economics," says the narrator in an October advertisement by New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, an incumbent Democrat, against Mr. Christie, his Republican challenger.
"In fact, nearly 300,000 Virginians are out of work, and there have been 110,000 foreclosures in Virginia since the beginning of the Bush Recession. Bob McDonnell may be telling Virginians that Bush represents 'the kind of governor I am going to be,' but the failures of the Bush economic policies are results that Virginians don't want," says the narrator in an August ad for Democrat R. Creigh Deeds, who is running against Republican Robert F. McDonnell in Virginia's gubernatorial race.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
I think bashing Bush is starting to remind people we had it better under Bush than lying Obama.
umm, wasn’t the “Bush economic agenda” a 6-8% unemployed rate and a $400 Billion deficit?
Definitely don't wanna go back to the 4.5 - 5% unemployment rate.
Our chicks are soooo much prettierbettersmarter than their chicks.....
Who’s been Speaker of the House and Senate Majority Leader during the entire “Bush Recession” ...
Bush hasn’t been on a ballot since 2006. He isn’t involved in this election and the Dems will lose by demonizing him this time around.
The Bush years Billions wasted.
The Obama 9 months Trillions wasted.
I choose Bush.
I’m really, really hoping the Dems continue this strategy next year as well.
Conservative women have not battered themselves in shamefully seared consciences.
Our ladies (you say “chicks”) are still ladies. The leftist females don’t know what they are.
We see the same thing among women who want power in China. When you come across female political types . . . look out! They have been to their husband’s barber and taylor, and look as though they have been through sleep-deprivation torture. Mean as a snake.
This is why Republican Presidents and Leaders can no longer allow the left to vilify them and then just expect that "History" will judge them fairly. By George W. Bush not standing up for his beliefs and policies, he sentences all of us to ridicule.
Yep, and Bush hasn't run for anything since 2004. The democrats have finally lost their way. Bush is winning win after all.
Jeb Bush had no business letting that hurricane get past Florida...
President Bush’ economic policies brought prosperity to America, it was after the democrats took over congress that our economy went to hell.
You see, the evil Bush/Cheney team left booby traps to hamper the socialists attempts to reset the economy. It’s never their fault. But the proof is out there. The dimrats are loyal to their party first and everything comes secondary at best. They are just showing us who they are.
George W. Bush, the president who would not fight back against enemies domestic.
For years there were unending stories of families in economic hardship everyday in liberal newspapers and the network nightly news. They were promoting economic failure to enhance a liberal victory in 2008!
Bush came into office with an economy that was slowing and heading toward recession, then the attacks of 9-11-01. Bush’s tax cuts and economic policies helped spur 50 consecutive months of economic growth, more than 8 million new jobs, real GDP grew by more than 17 percent and after-tax per-capita income increased by 12 percent.
Bush stuck with his new tone and would not attack his critics.
Not only were they promoting economic failure they were also promoting military failure.
When will we start treating this nation’s enemies as enemies?
Please give me the definition of the word “Treason.”
You beat me to it - that’s exactly what I feel....this constant Bush-bashing is wearing really thin on people now - heck I’ve even seen some in the MSM say it’s time to bury that line, that it’s almost a year since Bush was the leader of the free world (my words, not the MSM since they would NEVER use any kind of respectful term to be in the same sentence with “Bush”). People are getting really sick of hearing “Bush’s fault” on a daily basis from these bozos! JMHO
The Democrats gained the majority of both houses of Congress in 2006. They inherited nothing, the Democrats have held power since 2006.
Exactly! People remember 4% unemployment, strong GDP growth, and lower taxes under Bush. The 10% unemployment is now hanging around the necks of the Democrats.
More like 4%-5% unemployment under Bush with an average deficit of about $200 billion.
Wowsa...
Don't know about the deficit number, but I do remember a 4.5% unemployment rate...as statistically close to "full employment" as has been in a while. And the bastard horseface Democrats (specifically the haughty John Kerry, who served...somewhere) were calling it "the worst economy since Herbert Hoover".
But double that rate plus some, as it is under Obama...10% and climbing? Not so bad. All depends on the letter after the President's name.
FDR’s economy was worse the Herbert Hoover’s economy so how did the Democrats skip over a worse economy to get to Hoover’s economy? The Great Depression lasted for 11 years until WW II war production.
How bad was Jimmy Carter’s economy? That’s two leaps over worse economies that Herbert Hoovers.
You answered it yourself. No way in hell were the Democrats going to ever throw their god among men overboard, especially when trying to get a democrat elected.
And it is the same template...every damn election.
The Republican runs up the deficit...though I recall that during the last two years of the Bush administration, at which time this recession started, both the House and Senate were under Dimocrat control...
The Republicans want to starve Granny, cut Medicare and Medicaid, yet the biggest "screw you" to seniors is in this four-ream bill (two if they printed double sided) which the Republicans were SHUT OUT of crafting...
Republican administrations lose jobs, yet under Bush and 4 years of Republican Senate and 6 years of Republican House, the UE rate hovered around 4.5 percent...in nine months of this (expletive deleted) and his RAT enablers, it has DOUBLED, and like the Swiss Alps mountainclimber on The Price is Right, it's STILL climbing. "Yo-de-doo-de-do....Yo-de-doo-de-dooooo...CRASH!"
(for those in Rio Linda, a ream of paper is 500 sheets...never mind)
“The Obama 9 months”
I was driving home the other night and heard some announcement on NPR about how Obama had been president for a year now, so they were having some show imminently that would discuss his first 12 months. As best I can tell, they were measuring his tenure “in office” starting from last November’s election. I think this just reflects how badly some wanted Bush gone from the WH. In their eyes, Obama became “our” president the day he was elected rather than the day he actually took office.
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