PH, a chara,
I been thinking about this and talking with some really smart people. History almost doesn't apply to this situation; at least not the way most want to apply it. In our current situation, a single group within one party has been in charge all but 12 years of the last 32. They have set finacial policy. During a single 8 year run, they have implemented much of the policy that led to the crash of 2008. What makes this time unique, is that these people were never fired. In the past, the party that screwed the pooch, has either had a blood-bath, house cleansing, or so much time has elapsed that the varmits died or went senile. Look at every major economic downturn, (TR counts as a change because he was such an outsider). This time the Republicans are running the poster boy for the bad economic policy at the candidate. Coupled with the fact that MR could not find a way to communicate himself as anything less than a sexist, racist, elitist if his life depended upon it, and I don't think that you have to worry about the talking heads, conventional or historical political wisdom, this cycle.
Here is the perfect example. Most of the negatives on this list fall under the Clinton explanation for the Republicans strategy this cycle.
Beir bua agus beannacht,
Grehar the Bogtrotter
