[rabscuttle385]

*Ping!*

[Vaquero]

NOT IN QUESTION!!!

the question is how the messiah and Soros orchestrated it???

[Diogenesis]

And there at the top of AIG kickbacks is GOP-backstabber, and poor sport "Spoiler" Myth Romney.

How Romney is that?

"Top 20 Recipients of AIG Contributions in 2008"

[EGPWS]

House Minority Whip Eric Cantor and former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said in an interview airing on CNN's State of the Union Sunday morning that the GOP wasn't directly responsible for much of the party's electoral misfortune in 2008.

Good gawd, "party before country" disease is communicable and highly contagious apparently.

Liberalism is 100% to blame and conservatism has yet to have a political say.

[raybbr]

House Minority Whip Eric Cantor and former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said in an interview airing on CNN's State of the Union Sunday morning that the GOP wasn't directly responsible for much of the party's electoral misfortune in 2008.

"I frankly believe that much of what happened in the last election revolved around the fact that the economy fell apart at the time we were, if you will, holding the hot potato. Republicans and Democrats have been playing this game, passing the hot the potato, spending money like there was no tomorrow," Romney told John King.

And, who was in charge of the GOP and the economy?

I still contend that Bush and his policies opened the door for Obama. If Bush had used conservative principles in dealing with the economy instead of just focusing on the war we would have not had Obama elected.

Please, don't try to convince me that the democrats are solely to blame for the housing meltdown. It's been shown by several FReepers including myself that Bush was just as much an advocate of low income mortgages as anyone else. He even advocated the use of taxpayer money for down payment support for low income loans.

The idea that Romney and Cantor can ignore the facts and reality is just damn sad.

We have NOT ONE leader in the GOP who is capable expressing the truth.

[dirtboy]

Oh, the market meltdown played its part - but it didn't help that McCain completely misplayed it politically. And that Bush pushed TARP and then compounded the error by turning TARP into pure bailout money, an approach at odds with the legislation that was passed and signed.

But outside the bailout, the GOP lost ground in 2006 due to petty corruption and profilgate spending. And in 2008, McCain was stupid enough to have a pinhead like Phil Gramm as an advisor - one of the men most responsible for the economic crisis (between Gramm-Leach-Bliley and the Commodities Futures Modernization Act) - and who then had the gall to call Americans caught up in the downside to his actions 'whiners'.

IMO both parties have turned their backs on hard-working middle-class and working-class Americans - and the party that can put forward an agenda that lowers taxes, cuts government jobs, fights amnesty and illegal immigration and outsourcing of jobs, gets Wall Street under rational regulatory control, and gets more drilling going - will win. The question is, will the GOP tell its corporatist/spending wing to STFU - they blew it and as long as they keep clamoring to be leading the parade, we're gonna follow Stork down that dead-end alley.

[gusopol3]

As always, defensive and apologetic, Republicans never on the look-out to formulate a line of attack, like, “We got outspent 10-1 by Obama, who lied that he would take the same public financing that McCain did, then reneged and accepted hundreds of millions of dollars in bundled cash from hedge funds and foreign sources— whoever saw so much money buy a 6 point victory margin and act like it was a coronation?”

[truthguy]

I for the most part agree with this. At least this is a huge part of the reason for the loss.

Look, only the most foolish people currently believe in the innate intelligence of the American Public. Most Americans are economic ignoramuses. They could not understand the mechanics of the financial meltdown and the are prone to vote against the party in power (at least the president) when we have economic problems.

Sorting thought the technical details of the Wall Street failures and the Mortgage mess is beyond the capacity of most voters. Simpler to just blame it on the current occupant of the White House. Never mind the congress, they don't count. Heck one half of US voters can't even name their two senators and house representative.

That isn't the only reason McCain lost but it was the difference I think.

[ejonesie22]

Cantor is starting to really disappoint me. Maybe he has been too busy working to notice Slick Romney is a snake...

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Sure. And the fact that Bush and the rest of the Republicans spent and grew government like the Constitution didn't exist had nothing to do with it. Dream on.

[yldstrk]

I really don’t listen to pols on the economy.......

[G Larry]

One doesn’t need to be much of a conspiracy theorist to conclude the financial crisis was a well orchestrated effort of the left.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

The RINOs seriously continue to “not get it”, when it comes to the definitive explanations as to why the GOP lost in ‘08 as well as in ‘06! All RINOs really need to look in the mirror at themselves as part of the reason. When the GOP really equals a conservative political party, then conservatism and the GOP wins, as a whole political entity, but when the GOP really equals “Democratic Party Lite”, then conservatism as well as the GOP loses, as a whole political entity, no matter how many times it’s seriously tried.

[texican01]

The Bushites and Republican Party and about one half of Republican Congresscritters were DIRECTLY responsible for the 2007-2008 economic debacle.

They were stupid, incompetent, corrupt and most of all cowardly when confronted with truth.

These Congresscritters still don’t get it. They need to take a tutorial at a tea party. There will be some more held on July 4th

[VRWC For Truth]

"the GOP wasn't directly responsible for much of the party's electoral misfortune in 2008"

1) Showed no backbone in fighting 'Rat propaganda
2) Reckless spending like Liberals
3) Traitor McLoser at the top of the ticket
4) 12 years of a GOP majority with little to show for it
5) Laid down with 'Rats and got up with fleas

Moderation after moderation isn't working. It is the STUPID party aka LACK OF LEADERSHIP.

[Cboldt]

The party of “nothing is our fault” wants to be put in powwer so it can continue to deny culpability for its own failures. Thanks guys, but no thanks. Bye bye.

[MortMan]

STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES.