Synthaholic
Diamond Member
If Romney had been elected in 2008, we would have been worlds better. He would have overseen a robust recovery. Can blame Huckabee's supporters for hating Romney so much that they would help the least conservative candidate win the nomination when they saw Huckabee couldn't do it.
I don't know how much better we might be if he had won in 2012. Obama had already done so much damage, Romney would have had to be careful not to make things worse. It would have been tricky no matter what. But Obamacare could have been quickly stopped by executive order if Romney was willing to follow Obama's example and disregard what the law actually said. And without all those disincentives to full employment, there would likely have been at least slightly faster improvement on the employment front.
A robust recovery based on what? Republican dreams?
Really, where does this come from? I thought the government did not create jobs. Are you now telling me that a Romney one would?
Look, I understand the sentiment that Obama is getting in the way but the reality here is that our economy is experiencing some fundamental flaws and Romneys policies were not so different from Obama that we would have seen a stagnated mess suddenly explode into a great recovery. What exactly do you think would be driving the excellent recovery?
Romney would have let the stimulus measures deployed in 2009 take hold. He wouldn't have gone out of his way to stomp all over them with destructive measures like the ACA and destructive attitudes such as that which allowed Democrats to think it was a good idea to push the ACA through with lies and tricks no matter how great the angst of the nation was.
Republicans and Right-Wingers were uniformly against the stimulus, Romney included.
Are you now saying that they were wrong, and Obama was right, and it was needed?