Adventures in Postmodern Conservatism:
The Economy: It's About How You Feel

We in the reality-based community may be relieved that the economy is improving, largely as a result of Obama's policies, and no thanks to the GOP. We might even think that this will give the Dems a boost in November.

Not so fast, say GOP pollsters...

“What matters a lot more than the specific unemployment rate is what voters feel in their communities and in the lives of their families,” GOP pollster Whit Ayres said. “Focus groups demonstrate that while people feel the economy is marginally better, that it is still very weak, and that the president’s policies have done little or nothing to generate the kind of growth that we have historically been used to coming out of a recession.”

See? What matters is how voters feel.

Whose policies actually helped most to torpedo the economy? Whose helped most to save it? In which direction is it really going? How fast ought it to be going, and which parties policies are speeding it up? Which parties policies are slowing it down?

Doesn't really matter. It's all about how you--or, rather, "focus groups"--feel...even if you don't really know the answers to the above questions.

Oh, conservatives. Remember when you used to at least pretend to be hard-headed and no-nonsense?

Yeah, I miss that.