“all of us commonfolk have seen the price of meat, eggs, and milk rise dramtically ...eggs are up 3 times, meat has damn near doubled or more, milk is up at least 50% and the cost of everything else has gone through the roof as well. . . I lay all of this on O’s shoulders.”
Very true today and it was true in 2012 yet we heard nothing about inflation from Romney and the GOP. In 1992, Bill Clinton and James Carville were on television everyday saying the economy was in the worst condition since the great depression. With that untruthful message Bill Clinton brought down a sitting president. Carville knew people vote their pocketbooks.
Why doesn’t the GOP take the economic ball and run with it? They should be pounding Obama and the Dems everyday with the cost of healthcare, cost of electricity, the fact ice cream is no longer packaged in a 1/2 gallon container, higher taxes reducing paychecks, etc. etc. Inflation is potentially the most powerful issue for a campaign yet the GOP ignored it in 2012 when the price of gasoline was more than double what it was when Obama took office. The GOP ignores inflation, immigration, loss of jobs to foreign trade, the deficit, etc. What does the party stand for?
They tried that against Clinton and got accused of "talking down the economy." The charge stuck, and now they are scared to try it again.