Recall the GOP mantra of the 90s.

[Chevy]

"Bill Clinton had nothing to do with great economy and the positive mood the American people
had about the countries prospects.It was the Republican congress that did everything right"
By that logic with a Republican president America should be a utopia by now.
6 years in power the re pugs have now debunked their own talking pointing..Feel free to bash any freeper on the head with this if their peanut sized brain can even comprehend logic.

[MadMaddie]

1. Oh you....talking that common sense and facts again.....

logic.....:rofl:

[Chevy]

3. Thought would catch a laugh or two :P

B-)

[Ezlivin]

2. It's only what they're saying NOW that counts

Everything else is merely "historical".

[Chevy]

4. But but

what about the clenisssssssss:hide:

[WhiteTara]

7. revisonist history. n/t

[TlalocW]

5. I've had Bush-bot friends tell me

That it wasn't Clinton that had anything to do with the great economy, but it was the people themselves who took it upon themselves to work so hard. They didn't like it when I asked them, "Why do these same people apparently hate Bush so much that they've stopped working hard then?"

TlalocW

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

6. 'We've had ONE PARTY REPUBLICAN RULE during shrubco. Happy with

the results?'

[mobyss]

8. A divided government is best

I'm more conservative than probably 99% of DU posters, but I have to totally agree with the premise here.

In reality, despite being an immoral slimeball, Clinton was an ok president when combined with a GOP congress. Both "sides" had to seek compromise, but could also remain loyal to their parties' respective position. Anytime there is one-party control of the WH and Congress, things go badly, whether under Jimmy Carter or George W Bush.

I think there are very, very many mainstream "red-state" voters who would vote for a Democrat president in a heartbeat, if the following were true:

Not an East-coast liberal. Hillary, Kerry, Gore - all nothing but pompous east-coast limousine liberals. John Kerry is personally worth $180 million, with a billionaire wife that won't release her taxes - but paid an estimated 7% income tax rate for 2003 on tens of millions in income, and he's supposed to represent "the people"??? Anyone who has ever appeared smiling in a picture with Ted Kennedy will never win most "red-states", period.

Open to the idea that some people think abortion is wrong. Not necessarily for outlawing it, but not calling every pro-life voter that thinks the idea of hacking up and vacuuming out a developing human being is wrong a "lunatic fundamentalist woman-hater". Once again, the positions of Hillary, Kerry, Gore are too "abortion for all girls and women of any age in any case at any time for any reason" for most middle-American voters.

Taxes - they are too high for most people and need to be reduced. Talk of "Rolling back" Bush's tax cuts isn't fooling anyone - we all know they really mean "we are going to raise your taxes". Let the millionaires and billionaires (Like Tereza Heinz Kerry) fight it out with the IRS over income tax - anyone making less than $100,000 a year should be paying payroll taxes only, which are already 15.3% of income. If this means cutting some government programs, then get out the scalpel.

Guns. Yep - still an issue "out here". Anyone who has ever voted for any "gun-control" program or gun ban that is nothing but a cheap way to blame law-abiding suburban and rural people for the failed social policies of the inner cities is out. AGAIN - Kerry, Hillary, Gore.

Who's left? - how about someone like the Democrat governor of Montana, Brian Schweitzer? Someone like that could win a 40-state landslide. I'd vote for him over someone like John "banning political speech is okey-dokey with the First Amendment to me" McCain in a heartbeat. Funny thing is that he probably WOULDN'T win Massachusetts, New York, or California - he's not liberal enough!