Why not campaign as the party that gave bread and circuses to the masses?
Since the average life expectancy continues to grow while our reproduction rate stands below replacement (1.96), we need to blow the entire wad faster than bread and circuses. In the modern age, you have to run your Ponzi (I mean prescription pill) schemes much faster than the Roman Emperors did. Ah, progress.
Bush was the best we could get, but he is a RINO. Even the Great Bubba was able to bomb the Serbs into oblivion. We'll soon see whether compassionate conservatism was a brilliant ploy, or just another version of socialism lite.