Originally Posted by buggyone

Nice try, my friend, but you did get your figures wrong. Unemployment was at 7.8% when Bush left office. As for the downgrading of the credit rating, there is no one but the Tea Party Republicans to blame that on. Americans have seen what happened and the Tea Party Republicans are going to find themselves in deep yougurt next times they come up for re-election.

Richie, we were frustrated at gas lines and high mortgage rates. However, some of us did really good with long term CDs with interest rates of 18%.

You just have to look at the exit approval rates. GW Bush had the lowest approval rating in history. Jimmy Carter was more than double his approval rating.

Would McCain have done better or worse? If Palin had not been his VP candidate, we might have known the answer. Even though you admire Palin, you have to admit she was the main reason the Republicans failed in 2008.