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Originally Posted by crockett
I used to think the Republican nominees were just throw always so they could blame everything on Democrats after the Bush fuck up. However looking at their party today, I'm starting to think that's the best they can put forward.
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I really think McCain / Palin was nothing more than throw away. They knew no matter what that they would loose - the economy was crashing down hard and people were loosing their jobs and then their houses - and at the same time they knew they could blame the next four years on the Democrat party.
Romney was a good choice really, for the most part. His time in Massachusetts seems to have been without drama, and then of course there is Romneycare. My problem with Romney was that his business experience was exactly what the banks were doing and exactly what we didn't need - Romney borrowed large sums of money from other people, bought companies with the intention of turning them around, and then charged massive consulting fees to "manage" the companies they bought. If the company did well or failed on a massive scale was irrelevant because Romney made money either way. This is exactly what the banks had done - They would hand out a mortgage to anyone because the banks made money even if the buyer defaulted.
The problem now is the Republican party took a huge gamble and lost. They thought that four - eight years of a Democratic president would be a struggle without knowing the only one thing needed to fix this was time.... Didn't matter who was in office; We needed 4-8 years to turn this around and another 4-8 years to make progress. Don't tell me things aren't better - They are. Unemployment is down, stock market is up, GDP is up, Economy is up, new construction is up, house values are up, etc, etc, etc.
In the mean time all the Republican has is complaining about healthcare (Romenycare at the Federal level, badly needed, and seems to be working), the IRS thing (which is really nothing more than the IRS giving scrutiny to people who abuse tax laws), and then Benghazi which is nothing more than the US Government denying the CIA was operating in another country, standard practice since the CIA was created in the late 1940s / early 1950s.
The Republican party needs to stop complaining and start doing their jobs - and they better find someone they can put forward for the next election. The country will not accept another Bush in the White House, and the fat cat from NJ is just ridiculous.
If not we'll be stuck with Hillary. I am all for a woman in the Oval Office, but not Hillary.