This is why the Republican campaigning is filled not with running against Obama, but against a straw man they make.
The candidate they're running against is 'at war with religious liberty', and 'the most dangerous president we've ever had', and a hardcore socialist', and a 'Saul Alinsky follower who only wants to apologize for things the US didn't do', someone who wants to 'destroy the US military' - and just maybe a non-US born Muslim illegal president.
You see them campaigning against this straw man more than the actual Obama, rarely seeing his actual policies - just, say, his 'tyranical takeover of healthcare'.
So it's not really an election about Obama - but the ability of Republicans to lie.
There's a reason there has been little mention of Bush in the 20 debates (Reagan mentioned twice as often) - they're not wanting to talk about their actual policies.
Republicans do better when they can make things up. That's why when Bush ran, after Clinton balanced the budget, Bush could run as a 'fiscal conservative' who would keep the balanced budgets - and only wanted to return some of the surplus to citizens in tax cuts. No mention it was Reagan and his father who had shot up the deficit in the first place - he'd protect us from those big spending demorats.
And it worked on many voters - and then Bush turned right around and shot the deficit back up, and passed his tax cuts - now all borrowed - anyway, weighted to the rich.
And now Republicans would do the same thing, but they won't admit it much.
Just 'Obama the tax crazy guy' instead of Obama who has cut middle class taxes.
The candidate they're running against is 'at war with religious liberty', and 'the most dangerous president we've ever had', and a hardcore socialist', and a 'Saul Alinsky follower who only wants to apologize for things the US didn't do', someone who wants to 'destroy the US military' - and just maybe a non-US born Muslim illegal president.
You see them campaigning against this straw man more than the actual Obama, rarely seeing his actual policies - just, say, his 'tyranical takeover of healthcare'.
So it's not really an election about Obama - but the ability of Republicans to lie.
There's a reason there has been little mention of Bush in the 20 debates (Reagan mentioned twice as often) - they're not wanting to talk about their actual policies.
Republicans do better when they can make things up. That's why when Bush ran, after Clinton balanced the budget, Bush could run as a 'fiscal conservative' who would keep the balanced budgets - and only wanted to return some of the surplus to citizens in tax cuts. No mention it was Reagan and his father who had shot up the deficit in the first place - he'd protect us from those big spending demorats.
And it worked on many voters - and then Bush turned right around and shot the deficit back up, and passed his tax cuts - now all borrowed - anyway, weighted to the rich.
And now Republicans would do the same thing, but they won't admit it much.
Just 'Obama the tax crazy guy' instead of Obama who has cut middle class taxes.
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