Deficits Do Matter

The GOP base wakes up (after eight years of total amnesia):

74 percent of Republicans in the new poll expressed grave worry about the deficit, 29 points higher than in December when George W. Bush held the reins.

Those of us cynical about Republicanism will hardly be surprised. The good news, however, is the rebirth of fiscal conservatism on the right. My advice to Republicans: your message against Obama will be stronger if you have the intellectual honesty to indict Bush and Cheney.