[TwelveOfTwenty]

Scholars speculate that Ross Perot's 1992 third party candidacy gave Bill Clinton victory, since Perot garnered 19% of the vote that most likely have tilted to George H.W. Bush. If Clinton had not been elected, 9/11 could have been avoided through Osama Bin Laden's capture, and the financial crisis of 2008 could have been averted through absence of the Clinton administration's manipulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Worth repeating.

[Ann Archy]

AMEN!! But hey, Clinton was COOL....Bush was SQUARE and SERIOUS....A country like ou just can;t tolerate SQUARE ANYMORE....to our DEMISE!!!

[Jacquerie]

So true. The downwind consequences of Clintonism you itemized, plus SecState Hildebeast, federal judges, the petty progeny like Rahmbo, George Stephanopolis, the various marxist think tanks . . . have done incalculable damage to our republic.

[Tublecane]

Republicans controlled Congress under Clinton and dominated the federal government for 8 years off and on afterwards. You can hardly say 08 was all Bill’s fault. As tor Osaka, he wasn’t the “indispensable man.” They might have pullef it off anyway. Or if not 9/11 then some other attack. You can’t reasonably after four decades of terror point to one decision not to nab one guy as determining the issue.

[conservaterian]

I have no doubt romney will win but not with my vote and I won’t be jumping up and down with joy. No, I certainly won’t be jumping up and down for Obama either (which is the first thing you Romneybots yell when anybody says anything about your new hero). Did you hear his speech today on cooperation with the dems and working across the aisle? Yeah, good luck with that. The bitching and moaning on this site will start by the end of January and it will become deafening. Conservatives will NOT have a chance to take over the GOP with Romney at its head, conservatives will NOT be able to fight both the GOPe and the Dems when he starts “cooperating”. Jim has warned for years about a Romney presidency but he has been ignored and I’m afraid we are all going to pay for that. Romney is going to destroy the chances of having a conservative in the next two elections (assuming Hilary doesn’t kick his ass in ‘16).