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Thursday 18 October 2012

Ask yourself: What in that speech would George W. Bush have disagreed with in 2000? He believed in “energy independence.” He thought the Clinton administration hadn’t done enough to goose domestic production. One of his favorite quips in 2000 was “My opponent says he is for natural gas – he just doesn’t like people to find it or move it.” You could insert that into any Romney speech today without missing a beat. He also believed in cracking down on China, and being fiscally responsible (up to and including endorsing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution), and keeping taxes low on small business. The problem is that presidents never start trade wars with China and Bush wanted tax cuts and defense spending and he knew spending cuts are unpopular (sound familiar?). As for keeping taxes low on small business, well, he did that. So Romney isn’t promising anything Bush didn’t promise. Nor is he criticizing what Bush actually did. All he’s doing is repeating his plan. I would’ve thought he’d have a better answer than that. Ezra Klein

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