tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4053585.post2442129409650539494..comments2024-03-26T17:44:07.430-04:00Comments on Viking Pundit: Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15911276942829790135noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4053585.post-24451574281010682212011-08-02T22:45:17.086-04:002011-08-02T22:45:17.086-04:00Perhaps your optimistic eye spots a rising superst...Perhaps your optimistic eye spots a rising superstar and formidable opponent in the 2012 GOP dung heap. Happy hunting.<br /><br />Even when equating sunk costs to estimated future bills as you've done, the Bush fiscal case loses. Still, it’s a little jarring to see conservatives using tax cuts and war expenditures as pieces of the liberal spending spree. Truly the end of a rhetorical era.<Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4053585.post-42635914734578714182011-08-02T21:49:27.230-04:002011-08-02T21:49:27.230-04:00"Tons of non-partisan economic analysts assig..."Tons of non-partisan economic analysts assign the majority of blame for the fiscal hole to Bush's Iraq/tax cuts/free pills trifecta."<br /><br />I'm sure Americans will understand the important and principled distinction of Obama's Afghan surge/Libya, extending tax cuts/Obamacare trifecta.<br /><br />Heaven help Obama if this election is a referendum on his non-governing (Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15911276942829790135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4053585.post-38212250208541729772011-08-02T21:26:36.368-04:002011-08-02T21:26:36.368-04:00Tons of non-partisan economic analysts assign the ...Tons of non-partisan economic analysts assign the majority of blame for the fiscal hole to Bush's Iraq/tax cuts/free pills trifecta. <br /><br />No non-partisan election analysts propose that the 2010 midterms were tilted by voters sending a message that it's time for those finger-pointing Dems to leave Dubya alone.<br /><br />Polls continue to show that the American public isn't P.P.P. Raspewgallupnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4053585.post-73859065934353115762011-08-02T19:03:23.770-04:002011-08-02T19:03:23.770-04:00Polling guy: Sometime before the midterm election ...Polling guy: Sometime before the midterm election "shellacking" I urged Obama and the Democrats to keep blaming the Republicans and especially Bush. "People love that!" I think I wrote.<br /><br />Now even Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg is telling the Dems to cool it:<br /><br />"Against this backdrop, Greenberg warns the Obama administration and Democrats that "Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15911276942829790135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4053585.post-28359403746318696962011-08-02T18:28:24.960-04:002011-08-02T18:28:24.960-04:00Here's what the official Republican Party webs...Here's what the official Republican Party website, GOP.com, predicts for the 2012 election.<br /><br />http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/08/picture-of-the-day-gop-site-touts-jan-2017-as-obamas-last-day/242881/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4053585.post-23287136033371503302011-08-02T17:26:38.887-04:002011-08-02T17:26:38.887-04:00Translation: If you're against hard right poli...Translation: If you're against hard right policies, you're abnormal!<br /><br />Or as Pauline Kael supposedly said in 1972, "I don't know how Richard Nixon could have won. I don't know anybody who voted for him."My itsy-bitsy circlenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4053585.post-13996711478715890432011-08-02T11:42:23.696-04:002011-08-02T11:42:23.696-04:00Did MSNBC tell you that?
Smaller government, less...Did MSNBC tell you that?<br /><br />Smaller government, less debt, more freedom.... Crazy extremes! <br /><br />I know a few die hard statists who hate us - and a whole lot of normal people who are fed up.Bramnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4053585.post-60664792479654360022011-08-02T11:04:52.770-04:002011-08-02T11:04:52.770-04:00The tea party is pulling the GOP to such unpopular...The tea party is pulling the GOP to such unpopular extremes that it's hard to imagine a presidential candidate emerging the primary melee with any potential for broad nationwide appeal. Unless the country decides they really want <i>even more </i>obstructionist, self-destructive, partisan grandstanding, Obama will be re-elected by default.another Eric Lindholmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4053585.post-14734296509913514632011-08-02T01:22:59.211-04:002011-08-02T01:22:59.211-04:00Sitting Presidents who lost reelection bids in the...Sitting Presidents who lost reelection bids in the modern era: Ford, Carter, Bush Sr. <br /><br />That's the whole list. You might have a little "sample size" issue there.<br /><br />Also, in those elections, the public wasn't blaming ex-Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan for causing the bad economy by a 2-to-1 margin. That skews the usefulness of the projection ever so P.P.P. Raspewgallupnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4053585.post-28957530041193813982011-08-01T21:39:55.386-04:002011-08-01T21:39:55.386-04:00That's true and you won't see me with the ...That's true and you won't see me with the "Obama's toast" banner flying since anything can happen in 16 months.<br /><br />However, nobody believes unemployment will be significantly below 9% by November 2012 and no President in the modern era has won re-election when unemployment was over 7.2%.<br /><br />Obama's slogan of "I got Osama!" isn't going to Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15911276942829790135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4053585.post-92224027277760047012011-08-01T20:58:56.953-04:002011-08-01T20:58:56.953-04:00Quite the opposite, actually. Presidential electi...Quite the opposite, actually. Presidential election years don't play out like midterm election years. It's the GOP that needs the swing to occur, when everybody's voting.<br /><br />Don't fall for those polls featuring Generic von No-Name vs. the bum who's in office, either. Bush was losing to Unknown Faceless Democrat in 2003, and Clinton was losing to Republican to Be Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com