Throughout the debates, Gingrich bragged repeatedly of balancing budgets and creating jobs "with President Clinton." You'd have thought Gingrich was Clinton's veep.
Now Mitt Romney's latest chosen trope for painting Obama as an old-line liberal is a faux contrast with that great small-government Democrat...Bill Clinton. In Lansing, Michigan today, this is how Romney cast Obama as a pre-Reagan Democrat:
President Obama chose to apply liberal ideas of the past to a 21st century America. Liberal policies didn’t work then, they haven’t worked over the last four years, and they won’t work in the future. New Democrats had abandoned those policies, but President Obama resurrected them, with predictable results.
