W Is BACK - The LAST GUY Mitt WANTS In The News

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" In 2008, John McCain kept as much distance from the then-president as possible, appearing with him for a brief, perfunctory endorsement announcement at the White House and relegating him to a pre-taped video appearance at the GOP convention in St. Paul. This time around, Bush was absent when his parents offered a high-profile show of support to Mitt Romney in March, confirming his backing of the presumptive GOP nominee weeks later in a quick, off-camera comment to a reporter while boarding an elevator.



By contrast, Romney and his fellow Republicans have spent the last three years doing their best to pretend W’s presidency never happened, acknowledging him only when they’re forced to and changing the subject as quickly as possible. The politics are understandable: The GOP’s strategy since 2009 has been to channel the public’s intense economic anxiety into a backlash against Obama that will restore the GOP control of the legislative and executive branches. That much of the country’s suffering can be linked to the epic economic meltdown that came on W’s watch in 2008 is not something they’d prefer anyone to dwell on.



But, polls show, most voters do remember what happened in 2008, and who was president at the time. This offers President Obama a potential opening to win reelection under economic conditions that you might think would doom an incumbent president. As I’ve noted before, there is research that suggests Obama’s approval rating and standing in head-to-head match-ups with Romney is significantly better than it should be based on the state of the economy – evidence, it would seem, that the uniquely catastrophic circumstances under which he came to power are affording him a benefit of the doubt from some voters.



In that sense, Bush’s reemergence this week is only bad news for Romney, and only good news for Obama. So it’s not surprising that the president scheduled a campaign swing through Texas this week, playing the Bush card without actually mentioning his predecessor’s name:

“We spent almost a decade doing what they prescribed,” Mr. Obama said. “And how did it turn out? We didn’t see greater job growth. We didn’t see middle-class security. We saw the opposite. And it all culminated in the worst financial crisis in our lifetimes, precisely because there were no regulations that were adequate to the kinds of recklessness that was being carried out.”He added, “I don’t know how you guys operate in your life. But my general rule is, if I do something and it doesn’t work, I don’t go back to doing it.”


http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/17/in-texas-a-presidential-duel-over-the-economy/

http://www.salon.com/2012/07/18/the_last_guy_mitt_wants_in_the_news/

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2. After ten years of the Bush Tax Cuts, Romney needs to shows us the JOBS.

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3. the greatest political mind of our century just can't keep his mouth shut

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4. The country definitely needs a reminder of what it went through under El Chimpo Diablo. n/t

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6. The Obama Campaign needs to do a better job of marrying Romney to the Bush years.

Bush's absence is an obvious sign that he has been told to lay low.

Bush = Romney.

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5. Our last MBA President.

Yeah he was going to run the country like a business and fix what Clinton broke.

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8. Making these comparisons are very legitimate reminders as to where and how we find ourselves today.

Voters need to be reminded of Bush's own words:

"....There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again." —President George W. Bush


Bush = Romney.

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7. Mitt's probably happy for anything in the news that isn't Bain...nt

Sid

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9. He is toxic to ALL Republicans.

They want to disown him. And Palin. And Romney. Unfortunately for the GOP -fortunately for us- nobody is running the GOP clown show any longer.

It's the clown show of the century as Republicans feebly grasp for air.