In the 2012 Presidential election, republican party nominee Mitt Romney went out of his way to dodge President George W. Bush's failed administration and could not articulate any accomplishments by the republic party on Bush's watch. As a result Romney could not run a positive campaign and settled on personal attacks against President Obama. And now, almost 4 years later, republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump, who also supported Bush's failed policies including the Iraq war is taking the same approach, only this time his personal attacks are against Hillary Clinton also.
In the mean time Hillary Clinton is on the campaign and often cites the accomplishments of President Obama and his administration and articulates her determination to improve on those accomplishments and her own plans to make that happen and to make things better. Her story for America is about the future. Trump and the republican party are all about the failed past. The media has taken up sides with Trump and last week made a point of telling the people that Hillary held her first press conference in 270 days. But they failed to say that 365 days has past and Trump still has not made his tax returns public.
Democratic administrations have a positive record of accomplishments they can talk about and relate too. Republicans do not and as a result all they have left are personal attacks. The November elections are about the future and that disqualifies Donald Trump and the republican party.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
