It bugs the heck out of me too. Interest rates, inflation, gas lines, unemployment . . . MUCH WORSE than what Obama “inherited” from Pelosi and Reid.
GOP should have countered this LOUD & LONG.
And yes, Reagan turned it around contrary to what Bill Clinton said nobody could have turned this one around which wasn’t nearly as bad.
People my age or older have to remember that. Yet, I’ve never seen anyone shoot down this lie.
The answer is simple. The GOP doesn’t want to, and shouldn’t, get into a detailed discussion trying to convince people that the Bush economy didn’t suck as bad as Obama says it did. That’s a losing argument. The facts don’t matter. Bush is a poison pill in politics. Nothing but time can change that.
Of course, in those days, we actually had some Democrats who cared more about their country than their owners-- people like Phil Gramm and Scoop Jackson.
Romney should say something along the lines of “Mr. President, I know you were a little young and coked up in 1981, so let me tell you, the economy you inherited was many factors better than the economy Jimmy Carter passed along to Ronald Reagan. Amazingly enough, he was able to turn that economy around in just a few years and didn’t spend us into oblivion in the process.”