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richardhutnik on 07 July 2012
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Kasz216 said:

I'd guess because republicans have traditionally gotten us out of dicey economic times.

The last 6 or so recessions have stopped under Republicans outside the most recent one, though despite being "technically" over I doubt many people feel it's actually over.

Reagan fixed Carters mess.

Bush Senior had a recession that he stopped after the cold war ending caused spending in that regard to fall apart.  (Who's debt crisis was actually quite like the crisis today.)

Hell, even before the Sub Prime Mortgage crisis happened, Bush Junior got us out of the .com crash/9/11.

Nixon even got us out of a recession i believe.

So really... the reason people would think that is recent historical precedent.  For a lot of people alive, practically any recession they've experienced as been "fixed" by a republican.

Sr. Bush ended up leaving a recession that Bill Clinton arguably got America out of.  If you want to end up saying that Jr. Bush inherited a recession, then he also produced one far worse.  By standards of recovering, things are better off now than they were when Jr. Bush left office.

If there was an ongoing mess with Carter, it was also a linger over from Ford.  You had the Fed jack up interest rates a lot, and fought inflation.  OPEC playing politics didn't help either.

Anyhow, a key would be to look at the GOP the way it is now and then try to answer why it, the party itself offers any answers to anyone who is struggling financially.  Need to look an the entire party and not just one person, or one office.