“The people of America recognize that the slowdown in jobs that occurred during the early years of the Bush administration were the result of a perfect storm. And an effort by one candidate to somehow say, ‘Oh, this recession and the slowdown in jobs was the result of somehow this president magically being elected’ — people in America just dismiss that as being poppycock. And they recognize it as that.”

– Mitt Romney, defending President Bush in 2004.

Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire