“What the GOP doesn’t understand is that ‘socialism’ is not a bad word for the unemployed.”
More importantly, the Dems DO understand that making more people dependent on Govt will “HOOK” them
” If the GOP had fair trade and had not bled jobs from this country, they would not have lost the election.”
Disagree. We created jobs and had unemployment at the remarkable low level of under 5% in 2006 ... and we still lost the Congress. Since then, the Dems have mucked things enough to weaken the economy. That weakening had nothing to do with ‘bled jobs’, when in fact trade has created the best high-paying jobs in the economy. It did have something to do with Democrat threats to raise taxes.
“My Grandpa was a big FDR fan. He told me once that ‘everyone knew that FDR cared about the people’. He believed without FDR, millions of Americans would have starved.”
Your Grandpa was sold a bill of goods.
FDR lengthened the great depression and his policies failed to cure unemployment and haremd the ability of the country to grow:
http://www.parapundit.com/archives/005635.html
It was ironically the Great Depression precisely
The scary thing is that FDR’s PR was better than his economic policies and the Republicans were not able to offer a credible alternative. The fact that your Grandpa and millions like him revered a man whose policies made them poorer is a testament to the dangers of patronage socialist economics.
The GOP will need to be ready with pro-growth policies.
Unfinished thought above: It was ironically the Great Depression precisely because FDR made it so with his bad economic policies.
If FDR hadnt been so bad, it would have just been the Hoover Depression, and we would have been back on track by 1933 instead of waiting until WWII to improve.
Even if all you say is true...FDR was elected four times as President. I would say that while your argument may have some merit (many do not agree you know), it doesn’t matter. perception is everything. The GOP will be perceived to have caused a depression, destroyed the auto industry with good paying jobs. The GOP lost Ohio this year. They still have a chance to win it back in 2012, but not if they allow the big three to go under. How many GOP presidents were elected without Ohio? I can’t think of one in my lifetime.