I cannot tell you how many good, hard-working people that I have spoken with that blame George Bush, and by extension, the Republican Party for the collapse of the economy. So many Americans only watch the alphebet media for their news and are basically ignorant of the facts, and simply absorb any story-line or narrative the media feeds them.
I had a long conversation with a couple I recently became friends with last week. They asked me who I was voting for and after I told them it was Romney the female asked me “why I was blaming Obama for all the stuff George Bush did”. When I asked her what “stuff” she said, “are you kidding? look what he did to the economy.”
After fifteen minutes of explaining to her that the problem with the economy was the result the Housing and high risk-Securities bubble and how it was government interference in the housing market that set the table for such a mess, her eyes glazed over and her head started to bob.
She had no clue about Fannie and Freddie taking the risk away from the financial institutions by promising to buy all their paper, never heard of the “Red Lining” controversy that the Democrats engendered to force lending institutions to loan money to their irresponsible constitients. She does not know who Barney Frank and Chris Dodd are and anything about their role in creating this mess. And was incredulous when I told her that Barack Obama is more responsible for the collapse than George Bush is since he is one of the people that helped cause this mess through his work as an attorney for Acorn filing lawsuits under the Fair Housing Act to force lenders to loan money to high risk individuals. (I have a copy of the court docket for the infamous Citibank lawsuit that Citibank eventually settled, and which forced all the other lenders to comply wth the Community Reinvestment Act. Barack Obama’s name is on the document as a lawyer representing the plaintiffs in the case)
My point is this; If the Republican Party does not confront the media when they are perpetrating their latest lying narrative about the GOP and their politicians, there is not enough money in the world to try and change that perception on the part of the public during a political race. The GOP needs to confront the media every single day on these lies and call them out on every one of them as often as possible. If the GOP does not start fighting back and confront them on their shows about their bias, we will always be at a disavantage when they are counting votes.
PF
No one in Congress took her on. Pubbies should have been front and center declaring that this was the result of decades of programs passed by Democratic Congress and implemented by Democrat Beauracrats.