Can McCain Win if There’s a Recession?

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Thomas

I'm a life-long Democrat, but I confess that I can't vote for the Democrats this time. How many times can they promise me socialized medicine and an end to these wars for oil in Iraq and Afghanistan before I learn?

Thomas of KS @ Mar 08, 2008 10:34:46 AM

Fantasy

This is a manufactured "economic crisis" - kind of like our "global warming crisis", our "health care crisis" our "housing crisis" and a host of other crises that liberal depend upon to remain competitive economically and ultimately rule us as the elites they are.

4q 07 had strong economic growth, then the media looked at the political calendar and realized that to help "Hillary" they had to make it seem like the worst economy since Hoover. Kind of like her slimy, lying husband beat George Bush 41 saying the economy then was the worst since Hoover -- and not one media figure called him on that lie.

Everyone I talk to in business is busy. My consulting company is sold out. Headhunters are calling me weekly. Railroads are carrying record freight.

Who is in a downturn? Cable Stations - Lenders who made stupid loans - Newspapers-. To our information elite, there is a bad economy and significant layoffs. Perhaps if they changed their business model from syncophancy to the DNC to telling the truth, people would by newspapers and news magazines again.

As for Bush's education, he beat John "reporting for duty" Kerry like a drum --- it wouldn't even have been competitive if the media hadn't carried Kerry towards the finish line -- , owned the Congress for 6 years, and yes, liberated millions of Afghani's and Iraqis. Hillary doesn't sound as smart now that she is fighting for the presidency with an unknown Senator from political cesspool Chicago. "Oh - he wrote a kindergarten essay about being President - he's a power monger" Talk about the pot calling the Kettle off white.

red of WI @ Mar 08, 2008 10:31:57 AM

Fantasy Land spreading out of DisneyWorld

Apparently FantasyLand has burst its borders and engulfed the media. George W. Bush, our ruling Republican has spent more money in office on totally indefensible garbage like the war in Iraq, than any Democrat ever did and now we should elect McCain who supports a 100 year war effort? You are mad as a hatter. If McCain does get elected it will only hurry the economic destruction of this nation begun in earnest by this Yale and Harvard graduate who can't even express himself as well as a 5th grader.

You tell me these are the best candidates our once great nation can muster? You tell me these are my only choices, yet you tell me the system isn't rigged? We have a president who can't eat a pretzel without choking himself and getting a black eye in charge of our nuclear missiles. We have a vice president who shot a lawyer in the face while "hunting" possibly for another beer.

This whole nation is mad, but it is you who pretend to see normalcy and hope where in fact lies only ruin and despair that makes me wonder what they are smoking in the media these days!

John McCain indeed, you couldn't tase me to vote for that fellow and I'm a registered Republican, or was.

John Peel of FL @ Mar 07, 2008 19:46:23 PM

Idol worship

Where exactly does US Snooze get these right-wing, Republican-inclined McCain-loving columnists? Trolling the sewers beneath the American Enterprise Institute?

I mean, is there anything in the political history of the past 50 years that suggests recessions are NOT really bad news for the presidential candidate of the incumbent party? Could this dimwit have twisted more artfully to ignore the overwhelming evidence that this is true? I think not.

Next up: Why a giant asteroid hitting the earth would be GOOD for Republicans.

Peter Principle of PA @ Mar 07, 2008 16:58:00 PM

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