Republicans Say the Darndest Things: Republican Writes Great 2016 Slogan--for Democrats!

Kevin Hassett, Republican Economic Adviser

Kevin Hassett is a senior fellow and director of economic policy studies at the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute.  Mr. Hassett was a campaign adviser to George W. Bush in 2004 and John McCain in 2008, as well as the Mitt Romney campaign's economic adviser in 2012.

He is a prolific writer.  In 1999 he co-authored "Dow 36,000."  Currently, along with his work at AEI, he writes a weekly column for Bloomberg and a monthly column for the National Review.  He also  contributes occasional articles to The New York Times.

His credentials earn him a certain amount of Republican respect in the area of American economic policy and planning.

Recently he  reminded his fellow Republicans that Bill Clinton inherited an economy with record deficits and 10 million unemployed Americans from Bush the Elder, but ended his presidency with a balanced budget and unemployment at 5 percent. George W. spent eight years un-balancing the budget to the point of free-fall, and now, with two years left in the White House, Barack Obama is captaining robust economic indicators..  Mr. Hassett voiced the opinion that these turnarounds will present a challenge for the GOP's economic message in 2016.

In an attempt to make the GOP see the problem they will face, he came up with the perfect economic message for the Democratic candidate--whoever that person may be: 

"The Republicans gave us a crappy economy twice, and we fixed it twice.  Why would you ever trust them again?"

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