Republicans have a history that clearly demonstrates who they represent, what they favor, and how competent they are to govern. Because of this, the political elephants must forget that history and act as though a different set of facts had occurred. One example is that the party that brought us 9/11 claims that their policies against terrorism have succeeded, while those of the party that brought the perpetrator of 9/11 to justice, have failed.
There appears to be a strange misconception floating through the Republican Party. For some reason, members believe that history began on Jan. 20, 2009. This is very convenient for Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, because it means that everything bad happening in the world and everything that prolongs the suffering of the American poor and middle class is President Barack Obama’s fault.
That is no small advantage when you are trying to defeat an incumbent president. Unfortunately for Romney and the GOP, there is also a reality-based world out there, and despite wishful thinking and political denial, the past is not going away.
Recently, one of my long-time conservative correspondents wrote that Obama will not be running against George W. Bush in 2012, but I believe he is wrong. As much as conservatives would like to forget the worst president in modern history, his legacy still hangs over America like a pall of L.A. smog on a hot August day.
If I were a Republican politician, I would do exactly what Romney is doing: put Bush into the memory hole and pretend that he was never the head of the Republican Party. Nobody wants that political albatross around his or her neck.
However, Democrats will not allow that to happen because, to understand Obama’s presidency and his case for re-election, the economic Armageddon he inherited from Bush has to be taken into account. So let’s hop into the Wayback Machine and travel to those thrilling days of yesteryear… [emphasis added]
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The sad thing for us is that the mainstream media will, for the most part, do nothing to expose these disingenuous tactics and allow Republican obfuscation and projection stand unchallenged. That means it becomes our job to hop in that Wayback Machine and keep people informed that the Republican politicians are doing what they are always doing, whenever their mouths are open and they aren’t snoring.
So long, flip-flopper. Hello, right-wing extremist.