Romney:Bush::Obama:Obama

He's surpassed Jimmy Carter, now. I'd say that this robs the GOP of the chance to run against past Democratic presidents, but Obama will be one soon enough that it just might count.

Seems to me that no matter how much folks hate W,

trying to link Romney's policies to his probably isn't going to have much of an effect.

Bush was awful, but the whole argument that he was the one who screwed us all over? It's plain not going to fly. Nobody's interested at this point in how we got into this mess. What they're interested in is how to make things better again.

This is one of the things I find so fucking *galling* about Obama. He takes no responsibility for anything. His campaign sounds like a small whining child.. I don't want to hear about how it's the other guy's fault. Fact of the matter is, Obama made it worse. He made it a lot worse. A man--an ADULT--would stand up and say, "You know what? This isn't working. We need to do it differently, we need to do it better."

Also, arguing the the economy is growing isn't going to work all that well, unless the voters you're going after are the three people in America that think it's good when their paychecks shrink.

We'd have done better with an empty chair.

Gump

I think everybody who knows me knows I hate the hell out of Forrest Gump. I don't figure we need to do any more idolizing of stupidity than we already do in this country. Yeah, yeah, heartwarming, whatever. I've got no patience for it.

Which is why I got such a sinking feeling in my gut all over again at the realization that Bill Quick is right. Gump would certainly win. Which isn't nearly as discouraging as thinking about the percentage of folks who think life ought to look like the movies. I estimate that number at nearly half the population (too lazy to look at the polls, but I'm certain you can figure out which 40-odd percent I'm talking about).