Only in America can a Right Wing businessman be considered for president just 4 years after...

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7. A guy you would want to have a beer with

and a guy who campaigned, seriously, on a surplus being a BAD thing.

The same right wing radio hacks who tell the base and "liberal" media what to think, the meme 12 year ago, and this is for real, was that you can't trust government with a surplus, because it will buy up things that government has no business buying up, so you had to vote for Bush because he was going to give you your money back.

The same mendacious morons like Blitzer, Gregory, Mitchell, who now grill democrats so seriously about the debt that is going to destroy this country now, 12 years ago they were seriously posing the question to democrats, "but, senator, how can you trust government with a surplus?"

So, we had an election where a decent, intelligent and capable man was marginalized as arrogant and shifty, and the twit born on third base got elected because he was a guy you would want to have a beer with.