Illinois Reason, clearly adept at reciting Democrat talking points, is this morning echoing the most absurd of all the left’s talking points this campaign season.

Y’all are clearly running away from the Epic. Failure. of conservative policies over the last 8 years.

Not a single person reciting this myth has bothered to point out which “conservative” policies (notice plural) have actually been followed and have led to “epic” failure. Oh, yes. Iraq. It is debateable whether this policy is really “conservative” and whether or not it has failed. But I’ll concede that one anyway.

Name another “conservative” policy that has been tried in the last 8 years. Let’s see, Bush expanded the Welfare State; failed to control government spending; didn’t even propose a specific social security reform plan; supported amnesty (which I favor actually); bailed out Bear Stearns; passed a Sarbanes-Oxley law that makes it even harder to do business in the US; threw money at speculative alternative energy without doing anything to expanding our capacity for oil and nuclear … Come to think of it, I can’t think of a single “conservative” policy Bush has actually supported, not to mention implemented.

Your ball Rob.