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Originally Posted by Rochard
Yes, we voted the Republican party into the White House and told them to give us the biggest recession we've had since the Great Depression.
I don't think the Republican party understands what just happened here. During the second Bush term, we were brought down to our knees and we dragged down the rest of the world with it. This isn't a little boo boo. This isn't a little mistake. This is worst case scenario and a massive colossal fuck up. Tens of millions of Americans lost their jobs and their houses. This isn't something that is going to be forgotten or forgiven in the near future. And this isn't something that any President on either side can fix in four or even eight years.
Thus, The Republican party lost the white house twice in a row.
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We didn't vote "the Republican party into the White House"
Just like we didn't vote the Democrat party in.
We voted BUSH into the White House. He's a great candidate and a likeable guy.
We voted OBAMA into the White House. He's a great candidate and a likeable guy.
In my opinion this election was once again NOT about the issues...but who we think was the guy we would like to have a beer with.
And Obama won that hands down. Just like Bush did.
When Bush won re-election against John Kerry, it wasn't about ideas...it was because Kerry was stiff and looked like he had a Frankenstein head. Bush meanwhile was loosey-goosey and confident and just looked at ease in his own skin.
Same thing this year. Romney was too vanilla and too stiff. Obama is smooth, confident, and feels great in his own skin.
Nobody voted an entire party into the White House. Obama does not 100% represent the Democrat party. Yes, their leaders will fall in line publicly for the sake of politics.
And Bush in no way represented the Republican Party 100% either. His spending spree was the exact opposite of what fiscal conservatism is.
EDIT: And no....we were not "brought down to our knees" during the second Bush term. What the fuck world were you living in? Unemployment was at record lows. The market was at record highs.
The crash came during the last few months of his term. He took over in a mini-recession as the tech bubble busted. And then there was 9-11
But Bush did show some good leadership in the months after 9-11...and the economy and the country did great after that.
If not for the wars, we wouldn't be running a deficit. And if not for the housing market collapse (I don't know how many times you need to be told this to understand it), the economy would still be good.
And Bush did not cause the housing market to collapse and the economy with it. Congress during the 1990's passed the bills that led to our current economic problems.