If I was a Democrat running against a Republican in any election I would paint the Republican economic platform as essentially playing high stakes black jack with the American economy.
Coolidge/Wilson were Conservative Republicans...they were Presidents leading up to and well into the stock market crash in 1929 and the Great Depression.
George H.W. Bush was a Conservative Republican, a man who inherited a strong economy and left it in recession in just 4 short years.
George W Bush was a Conservative Republican who inherited Bill Clinton's economy and left it in the worst crisis in nearly a century.
By contrast, Democrats brought the country out of the Great Depression from 1932-1952 and since 1961 created almost twice as many private sector jobs in 4 less years than Republicans.
Sure, there have been successes in Republican administrations. Eisenhower and Reagan come to mind, but there have been an equal amount of catastrophic failures.
If you want a track record of fixing these messes, and generating economic growth with almost no economic crashes vote Democrat.
If you want to play blackjack with the American economy in an effort to get rich quick where we might succeed, but we also might fail catastrophically, vote Republican.
If this, or something like this, is the closing argument for Obama's domestic policy debate...I think it's hard, on its face, to argue with it.
Coolidge/Wilson were Conservative Republicans...they were Presidents leading up to and well into the stock market crash in 1929 and the Great Depression.
George H.W. Bush was a Conservative Republican, a man who inherited a strong economy and left it in recession in just 4 short years.
George W Bush was a Conservative Republican who inherited Bill Clinton's economy and left it in the worst crisis in nearly a century.
By contrast, Democrats brought the country out of the Great Depression from 1932-1952 and since 1961 created almost twice as many private sector jobs in 4 less years than Republicans.
Sure, there have been successes in Republican administrations. Eisenhower and Reagan come to mind, but there have been an equal amount of catastrophic failures.
If you want a track record of fixing these messes, and generating economic growth with almost no economic crashes vote Democrat.
If you want to play blackjack with the American economy in an effort to get rich quick where we might succeed, but we also might fail catastrophically, vote Republican.
If this, or something like this, is the closing argument for Obama's domestic policy debate...I think it's hard, on its face, to argue with it.
