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What has the Right been right about ?

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If you think the country should go in the direction you advocate. Then at the very least you should have a track record of having been correct in your predictions. So far I don't see where that has happened. Even though the right acts as if it has. Even worse they rant about problem of their own doing.

For instance. Weren't their tax cuts supposed to lead to surpluses ? Weren't their wars supposed to be cheap and beneficial ? Wasn't deregulation supposed to be safe ? Wasn't austerity suppose to inspire confidence and investment.

Sure they can come up with all kinds of excuses as to why things didn't happen the way they predicted it would. But that doesn't change the results.

I wonder if any Rightie out there that can point to some big important issue where the Right has actually been right ?
 
That's a trick question. You're just playing the "blame game", aren't you?

Mama don't allow no playing the "blame game" 'round here. ;)
 
Zoar said:
Spamature---Well said. Amen!
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I still remember a post by a right winger before the invasion of Iraq. He predicted that the entire Iraq war would be rapped up in a matter of 6 weeks if I recall correctly. Its hard to wrap your mind around that kind of hubris. But it seems as if they are incapable of anything else.
 
Spamature--THAT was what THOUSANDS of right wingers / Republicans were saying BEFORE and even in the first year of the invasion occupation.
 
NightSwimmer said:
That's a trick question. You're just playing the "blame game", aren't you?

Mama don't allow no playing the "blame game" 'round here. ;)
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Looking at Right wing rule is like looking at the aftermath of the Titanic. All I see are right wingers bobbing up and down in a sea of disaster desperately hanging on to the slogan of the week, like the "blame game" for instance, praying it will keep their lost cause afloat.
 
LeRoy_Was_Here said:
Wasn't that Dick Cheney?

Or, as I call him, Big Bad Dick.......
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No it was Kurl from the old fray with a post entitled " Iraq through rose colored glasses" He had the entire scenario from beginning to end laid out.

Dick Cheney back then was too busy trying to keep the admin's lies from falling apart by piling more lies on top of the first ones.
 
Great question. Unfortunately, political conservatism has all the hallmarks of a religious faith, and thus real-world facts can't touch it. Think about just how frequently it's been proven wrong. Its not just like tax cuts triggered deficit growth under Bush. They did it under Reagan, too. And tax hikes triggered the elimination of deficits under Clinton. But facts dont matter in the Republican religion. In the same way, when a minimum wage hike was supposed to trigger massive unemployment increases, in the 90s, and instead was followed by massive unemployment DECREASES, it didn't phase them a bit. When the invasion of Iraq proved to be a decade-long cluster-f--- rather than a cakewalk, that didn't phase the, either. They're uneducable.
 
Reagan did a big tax cut for the rich....deficits went up.

Dubya did a big tax cut for the rich....deficits went up.

Oh, but "next time", when Romney does a big tax cut for the rich....we'll FINALLY get surpluses.

They promise!!!! Pinky swear! :)
 
In the aftermath of the Bush election, a bunch of us on the Fray predicted what the future would look like, under his rule. The most liberal posters were most correct (economic malaise, social regression, and war). The farther to the right a person was, the more wildly incorrect his predictions turned out. They really did expect us to hold onto budget surpluses while the strong economy turned even stronger. It would almost be worth it if they were capable of learning.
 
Arkady said:
Great question. Unfortunately, political conservatism has all the hallmarks of a religious faith, and thus real-world facts can't touch it. Think about just how frequently it's been proven wrong. Its not just like tax cuts triggered deficit growth under Bush. They did it under Reagan, too. And tax hikes triggered the elimination of deficits under Clinton. But facts dont matter in the Republican religion. In the same way, when a minimum wage hike was supposed to trigger massive unemployment increases, in the 90s, and instead was followed by massive unemployment DECREASES, it didn't phase them a bit. When the invasion of Iraq proved to be a decade-long cluster-f--- rather than a cakewalk, that didn't phase the, either. They're uneducable.
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I don't know about that ? They seem to fast learners when it comes to picking up on new lines of BS. All they need to do is have some conservative figure tell them this black is white or white is black and they become aficionados. They went from deficits don't matter to deficits are the most important thing since oxygen almost overnight.
 
arkady--SO True! and yes the book "the Republican Brain" reinforces all that you posted and has hundreds of studies to establish additional proof.
 
Republicans still insist that WMD were found in Iraq despite the FACTS that NATO report said none were found, US Military reports stating none were found and even George WMD Bush publicly admitting none were found... Yet the Right Wing Republican today will tell you: "WMD were absolutely found in Iraq!"

They are not educate-able. They refuse reality and truth. They prefer their myths and their idealism.
 
They are about personal and economic destruction. They know that's the only way they can win. They certainly can't win on policy. They are on the wrong side of policy.
 
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