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Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy
Timmy is actually right. Four years of Romney will make Hillary's task much easier. That's why I don't think Bill is sincere in his support of Obama. Four more years of Obama, and Hillary stands a much smaller chance of being elected President. Almost any Republican could beat her, but against Romney in four years, she'll be a shoo-in.
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I agree.
If Romney is elected, the immensity of the fiscal challenge will make it impossible for him to meaningfully tackle the problem without failing politically. In fact, I don't think he'll try to do so any more than Obama, who made an already bad situation markedly worse. Romney will try to cut taxes (or at least keep rates low) while failing to cut much of anything in the way of spending, and failing to effectively reform the financial system -- leaving us at high risk of more crises. In other words, it will be the fourth term of the Bush/Obama policy agenda; simply another iteration of a long term "can-kicking" process.
The probabilty is high that the recklessness of this agenda will be exposed within the next four years. You can't keep covering up structural economic problems with endless pseudo-Keynesian deficit spending and money-printing. We are digging a deeper hole and asking for a heap of trouble.
Obama has obviously demonstrated that he has no intention of making anything remotely resembling a tough decision. If he gives us four more years of the same anti-growth policy initiatives, voters are not likely to want to see a Democrat anywhere near the White House in 2016.
That's why I believe that whichever party wins the White House in 2012 is almost sure to lose it four years later.
