Political strategist Robert Creamer asks the intriguing question as to why George W. Bush has not been campaigning for Romney - at all. The Gadfly too has been wondering where the former Republican President has been during this critical election year. Unlike Bill Clinton, who has been stumping for Obama since day one, Bush has been completely a non-entity in the Romney effort.
The whole piece is worth reading, but this excerpt from the piece really kind of sums it all up as far as The Gadfly is concerned:
But of course there are many other reasons why the Republicans have failed to ask George Bush to campaign for their Presidential ticket. Two stand out.
We have had two great economic experiments in America over the last 30 years. One succeeded. The other failed – in fact, it was a man made disaster.
The first was led by President Bill Clinton. Clinton believed that you grow the economy from the middle out – not the top down. He understood that businesses don't invest and hire unless there are customers out there with money in their pockets – that they are the "job creators" – not a bunch of hedge fund managers on Wall Street.
Clinton proposed a federal budget that would eliminate the deficit mainly by calling on the wealthiest Americans to pay a little more in taxes -- and by investing in infrastructure and education to grow the economy. And Clinton forcefully defended programs like Medicare when Newt Gingrich wanted to cut them to give tax cuts to the rich.
When his budget was debated in Congress, Republicans predicted it would lead to massive job losses and recession.
The Republicans were dead wrong. Clinton presided over the most prosperous period in human history - literally. On his watch the economy experienced robust growth and created 22 million new American jobs. Clinton eliminated the Federal deficit and left his successor with budget surpluses as far as the eye could see.
Then came George Bush. He cut taxes for the rich – arguing that this would turbo charge job growth and that the deficit would take care of itself. In fact, Bush's Vice President, Dick Cheney – a man who has also been noticeably absent from the campaign trail this fall – famously said that "deficits don't matter."
The result: Bush left office having presided over the worst record of job growth since the Great Depression – zero net private sector jobs created – that's right, zero.
Worse, his failure to regulate Wall Street set the stage for the worst financial collapse since the Great Depression, costing 8 million Americans their jobs, wiping out 40% of many people's pensions, collapsing of the housing market, and causing the worst economic downturn in 60 years.
Bush's trickle down tax policies not only failed to create economic growth – they left the Federal Government saddled with more debt than all of the previous Presidents had racked up since the beginning of the Republic. And remember, that debt load made it even harder for President Obama to clean up the economic mess once he came into office in 2009.
It's not surprising, then, that you don't see George Bush on the stump trying to convince Americans that Mitt Romney's economic policies will create a better life for the middle class. Of course he could step in for Mitt, he certainly knows the script – in fact he wrote the script.
After all, Mitt Romney is promoting exactly the same economic policies that Bush used to create zero private sector jobs, crash the economy and run up the deficit just a few short years ago.
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17610-why-hasn-t-george-bush-campaigned-for-romney
These are the facts folks. Oh yes, as certain as the sun will rise in the morning, The Gadfly's conservative detractors will don their tin foil antennae hats and begin zombie-like chanting in unison that black is white, up is down, 2+2 = 5 and that facts have a liberal bias.
The Gadfly is truly sick of you childish, reality denying fuckers. Just grow up will you?
The highlighted section above excerpted from this article is just fact. Fucking accept it and if you can prove it wrong with evidence instead of just stomping your feet, pouting and calling it "liberal bias" then fucking do it!
Anyhow, the bottom, very uncomplicated explanation as to why George W. Bush is the invisible man in this year's election is because it was he and his incompetent, greedy, and very fucking stupid political cronies who drove the country into the economic and foreign policy ditch by lying through their collective teeth to the American people over and over again - and when confronted with their malfeasance simply continued lying and denied they had any fault for the crisis that America found itself in at the end of Bush's term.
And as the article's writer astutely points out, Romney and Ryan are continuing the lies because they have every fucking intention in the world of going back to the ruinous Bush policies which will continue to benefit the undeserving 1% elites in the country at the expense of quality of life and equitable economic prosperity for the 99% rest of us.
These are facts - and the only bias these facts are infused with is the bias of undeniable reality.
The Gadfly advises all of you to seriously think long and hard about it before you walk in to that voting booth on Tuesday.
----TFG
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