Where do the Republicans stand?

There is an important issue which the Republicans regularly face and they stand firmly on three sides of a fence. It's untenable, but their voters haven't notice and don't care.

When it appears Democrats are coming to power the first argument we begin to hear is that the DEFICIT is far too high and growing and the Democrats have to be responsible to control it. Of course, it was Republicans who gave us the federal debt and deficit problem. Of course, the Republicans don't want the Democrats to be free to do anything but clean up the Republican messes. Pres. Obama spent a big part of his eight years as president fixing the problems they created.

Okay, that's simple. Where do the other two stances come from?

How do the Republicans propose fixing the problem? Cutting spending all across the Liberal social program they say they don't support. They make this argument to convince their voters they have a solution. But, the fact is they won't touch those programs because their own voters are very big users of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and many others. On the other hand, they claim the Democrats are going to raise taxes to solve the deficit gap and their voters hate higher taxes. They often go even further and claim the Democrats are Socialists who will spend more and more and more and create even bigger problems. This, despite the record which shows Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama (with full support of Democrats) kept deficits low or decreasing.

Democrats ARE the party of fiscal sanity.

During the Clinton presidency the economy boomed, despite ZERO support from the Republicans at the beginning and they brought down the deficit to reach a BALANCED BUDGET. The next Republican presidency and Congress immediately destroyed that progress.

During the Obama presidency there was a huge recession at the beginning (2007-2010) and yet the Democrats stopped the recession, brought down the deficit faster and more than ever before and still fought a war and passed the ACA and did financial industry reform regulations.

Of course, when Pres. Trump came into power the first thing they decided to do was to spend more on the military AND do a tax reform which would blow up the debt by several trillion dollars

Republicans are completely irresponsible with the budget.

Now the record is clear, how do the Republicans explain themselves during campaigns? They are currently discussing everything else and ignoring it. What else could they do?

It's up to Democrats to remind the voters that Republicans destroy the fiscally responsible budgets and Democrats immediately work to fix our problems instead of making them worse.