CNN Money: 3 of 4 GOP candidates would add to deficits

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Romney is the only one who knows what it means to budget. As Romney puts it, if you're not a fiscal conservative in business, you go out of business.

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(* - Clinton is a bit of a special case - he was a true Democrat in 1992 but 1994 pushed him to the center and made him a relatively non-partisan centrist.  He should thank Gingrich for his legacy.)

Actually, Clinton owes Dick Morris more anybody else. Without Clinton's adoption of Morris' Triangulation, Clinton would have been a spectacular failure of a president. But I agree with your other sentiments. I also find it mind-boggling how some Democrats act like Clinton was a quintessential Democrat. That's only true for 1993-1994. Youngsters don't know any better, but older Democrats should not be pushing revisionist history and they know it.

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The GOP is the party of deficits. The Democrats are the party of fiscal responsibility. That's been the case since the 1950s.

Seriously? Eisenhower was the one trying to reduce the deficit and his monetarist policies even contributed to his unpopularity in 1958. LBJ on the other hand was mister guns 'n' butter. At least say since the 70's. Attaching LBJ to fiscal responsibility and Eisenhower to fiscally liberal republicans is entirely false.

This is true. LBJ practically perfected tax-and-spend liberalism.