Mitt Romney made a good tactical move today. He praises Bill Clinton’s fiscal and economic Conservative policies. Although many Conservatives hate Clinton, one has to be intellectually honest. Post 94 Bill Clinton was the last fiscally responsible President. The economy boomed under his tenure and most Americans look back at the 90’s peace and prosperity with fond memories.
LANSING, Mich. — Mitt Romney has a new hero on the stump and it’s Bill Clinton.
In seeking to drive a wedge between centrist and liberal Democrats, Romney spoke here on Tuesday in glowing terms of the Clinton era’s balanced budgets and rosy economy.
“President Obama chose to apply liberal ideas of the past to a 21st century America,” Romney said. “Liberal policies didn’t work back then, they haven’t worked during these last four years, and they will not work in the future. New Democrats had abandoned those policies, but President Obama resurrected them with the predictable results.”
[….]“President Clinton made efforts to reform welfare as we know it,” Romney said. “But President Obama is trying tirelessly to expand the welfare state, with more promises of more programs, more benefits, more spending.”
This is a smart tactical move on Mitt Romney’s part. In 1992, Bill Clinton took away the wealthy suburbs for the GOP. The Democrats have held them at both Presidential and Congressional level until 20120, when the GOP made inroads. Now Romney wants those voters back and praising Bill Clinton is a way of wooing those voters. It also sends a signal that he will be fiscally responsible.
Tags: 1990's, Bill Clinton, New Democrats, Rockefeller Republicans
