Obama is a Republican

[finnbow]

Or so says Bruce Bartlett, a historian whose area of expertise is supply-side economics who served as a domestic policy adviser to Ronald Reagan and as a Treasury official under George H. W. Bush.

Obama has governed as a moderate conservative—essentially as what used to be called a liberal Republican before all such people disappeared from the GOP. He has been conservative to exactly the same degree that Richard Nixon basically governed as a moderate liberal, something no conservative would deny today.

http://www.theamericanconservative.c...-a-republican/

[d-ray657]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Or so says Bruce Bartlett, a historian whose area of expertise is supply-side economics who served as a domestic policy adviser to Ronald Reagan and as a Treasury official under George H. W. Bush.

Obama has governed as a moderate conservative—essentially as what used to be called a liberal Republican before all such people disappeared from the GOP. He has been conservative to exactly the same degree that Richard Nixon basically governed as a moderate liberal, something no conservative would deny today.

http://www.theamericanconservative.c...-a-republican/

It seems that I've heard that somewhere.

Regards,

D-Ray

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

It seems that I've heard that somewhere.

Regards,

D-Ray

I'm betting it wasn't on Fox or Talk Radio.

[nailer]

That would mean Bill Clinton was a Republican.

[bobabode]

I was so counting on FEMA re education camps.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by nailer

That would mean Bill Clinton was a Republican.

That would be a fair assessment of the Clinton presidency.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by nailer

That would mean Bill Clinton was a Republican.

Both Clinton and Obama are what I would call Eisenhower Republicans.

[donquixote99]

So is Carter the last actual Democratic president, or do we have to go back to Johnson?

Interesting that neither of them was elected to a second term....

[nailer]

I see Carter as a conservatve Democrat and Nixon as a moderate Republican. Some may see Nixon as a liberal because he signed all that Democratic legislation. Other than Vietnam, Nixon was willing to leave domestic policy in the hands of the Democrats. He knew they were doing the nation good. His focus was playing The Great Game and if it wasn't for his paranoia he might just be remembered as a great president.

[bobabode]

Leaving Nixon's complete lack of ethics and the morals of an alley cat in heat out of that assessment, are we?