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A lot will depend on who the Repugnican candidate is. The Huckster surely isn't a Wall Street Repugnican and would present a far different agenda than a Mittens or McCain. If anything, the "fiscal conservatives" may just sit home this November...counting their dividends from their offshore accounts while the recession destroys the consumer market.
For years, the GOOP game was to bullshit about the economy and if times were tough, then that was YOUR fault...you deal with it. The long-time mantra has been that greed is good and the only way to get rich is through greed...now the bill has come due and those who went along for the ride are wanting to get off. They know that booosh, his war for profit and his hideous tax cuts have been a disaster for this economy and they now expect the Democrats to clean it up.
Iraq and the Economy are very much joint issues. The money wasted on that occupation takes away from money available for infrastructure and domestic programs...it's money that can't be pumped into local economies to create jobs unless you make bombs or are a vulture capitalist.
Last night Conservative Norm Ornstein was on the Daily Show and all but blamed all the economic woes on the booosh regime. And he works with Gnewt Gingrich at the American Enterprise Institute. The natives are very restless.
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