Back in the early nineties I was out on a date with a guy and we got talking about Jimmah Carter. This supposedly intelligent guy insisted the former President Carter was a great President. I just looked at him like he was an alien who never was around during the 1970’s. I asked him about the high unemployment rate, the high interest rates, the Iran hostage debacle, high inflation and oh yeah, how about the gas crisis (like there was no gas) and he had no response but he said he’d read a book about how great the wonderful Carter years. Oh, btw, never saw this fellow again. I just couldn’t go out with someone with such flawed views.

At last week’s Nashville Tea Party my sign was the same as this one:

Jennifer Rubin has a great article at PJM called The Obama Administration: That 70s Show

We are, it seems, in a state of collective amnesia. The 1970s formulas (both domestic and international) proved to be a dismal failure. It is only when we turned to economic policies of sound money, low taxes, reasonable regulation and free trade and to robust defense of American interests abroad that America enjoyed a period of peace and prosperity. But disregarding the lessons of the not-so-distant past, the Obama administration now casts aside policies which promote economic growth, domestic energy production and military readiness in favor of a hodge-podge of government-centric programs, debasement of our currency, and displays of international weakness. The results are unlikely to be different that they were 30 years ago.

Unfortunately for the Republicans, we don’t have a Ronald Reagan waiting in the wings.

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