Thanks, DG.

I believe that you are correct on the latter.

On the first part, I believe that they would try to take credit for the recovery: “See, just the anticipation of a Romney presidency has turned the economy around….” or some similar malarkey.

But then again, I am a cynical partisan.

I also concede. That was a piss-poor example to make a point. You got me there. I admit.

The lousy 80,000 jobs gain in June certainly is nothing to crow about and as your rightly say, may even help Romney.

But let me ask you, do you think that Romney and his GOP buddies would relish the idea of the economy, unemployment, etc. drastically turning around for the better between now and November?

On second thought, don’t answer that.

Actually I think he believes in money, a LOT of it, by any means necessary, and then hiding the trail as much as possible. As for bedrock beliefs relating to character and morality? I think Ron is right. On one hand republicans have every reason to be unhappy with Romney, on the other he pretty well represents the vacuum of standards they seem to revel in anymore.

Seriously, my reply to pathetic in the headline is apathetic in the populace, and hence a vote for the incumbent.

I concede your point to a point. Behind the Labor Department number is a revised increase of 77,000 jobs in May, while I cite that private firm with a number double Labor’s. Meanwhile, Bloomberg reports a June figure of 100,000.

The bottom line is that until jobs growth reaches about 250,000 per month and that is sustained the economy — and Obama — are not out of the woods.

Is Romney’s campaign pretty pathetic – sure, but this jobs report will probably help Romney if anything.

How sad: Good news for our economy, for our country is bad news for the Republican Party…

Go figure

At the same time, he wants us to believe the HUGE fiction that running Bain Capital somehow has taught him how to fix the American economy. Anyone who believes that needs to get their head examined. Unless something changed recently and it turns out we can solve the Social Security issue by firing all our old people.

Oddly enough, the one thing that the GOP is ripping on him for recently, stating the Obomneycare thing is not a tax, is the one bit of backbone I’ve seen in him this entire election cycle. He passed an identical law in his state, and its actually not a Tax per se, and he’s sticking to his guns on it. Mittens finally tries to make a point, its legit, and both sides of the fence are trying to make him look like fool for it. Yay politics.