Posted on 09/27/2012 3:39:06 AM PDT by Kaslin
We can analyze it to death, but the main thing is - massive voter turnout to vote out the usurper is what it takes this November!
Massive voter turnout to destroy their chance to steal the election!
Spread the words to the ‘leaners’, the Independents, the undecided - vote out the usurper/traitor obozo!
Our lives, our country depend on it!
True but I'm now starting to conclude he's incapable of doing that. I don't think he has it in him to blunt the types of attacks on him that Obama's making. First and foremost is that Bush's mess is still being cleaned up and Romney's going back to Bush. He has no ability to articulate exactly why Obama's wrong. I get the feeling he doesn't think there's any point in trying. In fact I just heard on the radio that Romney seemed to back away from his tax cut proposal in an Ohio campaign stop.
And it can be as simple as: "Mr. Obama's theory requires that we believe we have 23 million unemployed because we don't pay enough taxes. Americans are smarter than that."
Romney can also easily point out that lower taxes and less regulation resulted in the longest economic growth - into the Clinton years - when implemented by Reagan.
Anyway, I believe it can be done, I've heard Romney do it. Doing it right at the right time in a debate will be something to look for.
thanks for your reply.
Well it’s not really as simple as that but that is exactly the type of response he gives and will give in the debates.
That doesn’t address the question of why exactly the recovery is so bad - if there even is a recovery at this point. Nor does it point out USING NUMBERS the fact that it is terrible. It doesn’t explain why Obama’s at fault. It doesn’t challenge the FALSE idea that there is some Bush mess that Obama’s still cleaning up. In polls I believe more people still blame Bush for the bad economy than Obama. And it only indirectly disputes the ridiculous idea that Bush’s tax cuts caused the problem.
That is in fact a LOSER’S response. Which I’m starting to conclude is what Romney is.
I don’t agree. “Not because we’re not taxed enough” is a paraphrase of Reagan. By no means is it a full explanation of economic theory of the free market though.
I do agree that much more should have been done by now to refute the meme that Bush economic policies (instead of mortgage devaluation by government action) caused the crash.
I don’t know if it is too late to counter this. And, I think it may well be a mistake to refer back to Bush at all; but rather speak common sense on freedom and free markets.
thanks for your reply.
He doesn’t have to refer to Bush by name. But he has to dispute that there’s still some mess he’s cleaning up. And he doesn’t even have to go back to the cause of the mortgage mess.
This is what he could say:
“There was something that needed to cleaned up, the huge bad mortgage debt owned by financial institutions. However, whatever you think of them, the bailouts (TARP etc.) did clean that up more than 3 years ago. Further, tax cuts didn’t cause trillions in worthless mortgages to be lent out - the idea is idiotic. Obama’s not cleaning anything up, he’s actually making a new and bigger mess.” Then run through the numbers like plummeting household income, continuing high first time unemployment claims, 3 million more people in poverty, the labor participation rate down to levels from 30 years ago etc. etc. Lot’s of numbers.
See how that works? But Romney will not say anything like that. He’ll give essentially a one sentence explanation (”I don’t think higher taxes will help the economy”).
Not according to that (well 2%). He would have an excellent change if he knew how to articulate things in a detailed forceful way. He has “Republican disease” though where you can’t explain anything in any detail that people can understand, and you can’t forcefully attack Democrat premises. He’s just counting on people wanting to fire Obama and he has to just be not offensive. So 2% may be about right.
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