Replies

"It’s a tough sell for some conservatives"

I'm not sure liberals have thought this through either.

That's the main reason conservatives get blamed for everything.

1. Liberals propose a new, utopian program, without thinking through it.
2. Conservatives, accustomed to planning ahead, point out the inevitable downsides and ask for scrapping of or revisions to the proposal.
3. Liberals, who still haven't thought through it, "feel [criticized, oppressed, targeted, etc] and defend the proposal, calling conservatives "bigoted."
4. Proposal is rammed through by liberal double-dealing and lies, assisted by complicit, lying media hysteria and demonization of conservatives.
5. Everything the conservatives feared comes true; liberals blame conservatives because, after all, they asked for revisions, and the failure is "clearly" the fault of the revisions. Or, failure is because conservatives tried to block it, because they are bigots, and bigotry made everything turn out badly, just because! Or...[insert your choice of lies and excuses here].

Spot on.

Or...[insert your choice of lies and excuses here].

Not enough $$. There is NEVER enough money for ANY lib utopian plan.

Exactly. Liberals institute programs like "making mortgages more accessible to the poor". That happened during Bill Clinton's years, and they started handing out mortgages like candy. Then, years later a Republican happens to be in office when the whole thing finally collapses under it's own weight... and voila, it's the Republican's fault.

At some point a Republican president will have to deal with the national debt, which is over $18 trillion now. He/she will have to make some hard choices, make cuts to programs and so on in order to save the overall economy. That president will be hated and mocked for doing so, and no one will ever blame Obama for his contributions to the problem.