The GOP are ignorant hypocrites for blaming gas prices on Obama

"What is the evidence that such ignorance characterizes Republicans?” Im not here to claim that Republicans are ignorant all the time, im arguing that in this particular case that Republicans are being ignorant since they are ignoring their own facts and reasons from the past when it comes to placing blame for gas prices."What is it Republicans believe, but deny believing, that makes them hypocrites?"Republicans believe Obama, the president, is the only one responsible for high gas prices, but it is hypocritical for them to believe such a thing because in the past under Bush, Republicans blamed many other things for high gas prices and Bush wasnt one of them. The Republicans under Bush believed that it wasnt Bush's fault gas prices were so high, now they believe that Obama is the only one responsible for high gas prices. “What is the evidence that particular hypocrisy characterizes Republicans. Pro refuses to answer any of these questions directly."Ive showed how Republicans were hypocritical over using 9/11 as leverage during an election, Ive shown how Republicans completely change opinions on issues or events mostly because the President has a "D" on his name on the ballot and not an "R", Ive even showed how they make ad campaigns attack only Obama and then when interviewed the producers in the campaign immediately concede there are other factors to blame, Hell ive even shown how Republicans fight legislation that would lower gas prices even though they preach about how they will be the ones to lower it. "Instead Pro asks me to read a list of assorted links, try to figure out what he means by “ignorant” and “hypocrisy,” and that then I should try to figure out what his argument is."The links were all evidence showing the actions of Republicans which can be interpreted as hypocritical in which you responded by copying maybe one obscure line in the text that doesnt even relate to the issue and then focus on questioning that line out of the entire source. "For that to be hypocrisy, Pro would have to show that Republicans believe that nothing effects oil prices but the policies set by whoever is the President. No one believes that"Ive shown that is EXACTLY what Republicans believe. Theyve gone on the media saying that, they have started smear campaigns that say that, and they are only doing it because Obama is a Democrat. "There is no hypocrisy in that, that's consistently blaming restrictions on development."Its not hypocritical for Republicans to blame restrictions on development for one reason why gas prices are so high, thats a very smart thing for them to do. The hypocrisy lies in the fact that 5 to 6 years later when those same restrictions are in often still in place, Republicans are only blaming Obama for high gas prices for political leverage in an election year and have seemed to forgotten about the very things they were opossing before which would indeed lower gas prices. "It also shows that Republicans do not believe that oil prices are solely due to the policies of whoever is the current President."That is only the party's position when the President is a Republican, if he is a Democrat though then suddenly high gas prices are all his fault. "During the Bush Administration, Newt Gingrich wrote a book about oil prices, attributing high prices on lack of development, and uniformly condemning any policy that blocked development." Yes, during the BUSH ADMINISTRATION, Gingrich went on record claiming that gas prices arent the presidents fault. 5 years later when Obama was president, Gingrich went on record saying how Obama is intentionally trying to raise gas prices to European levels, as I have shown before (heres the link again). http://www.factcheck.org...So Gingrich is yet another Republican who under the Bush years gave detailed reasons of why gas prices rise or fall, and when Obama became president he and just about every other Republican changed their tune to blame Obama as the main reason for why gas prices were so high...... THAT is where the hypocrisy lies" Pro supposes that Republicans were somehow obliged to find some other reason to blame Bush for high oil prices. even if Bush was advocating what they wanted. That's ridiculous."Back then Democrats were playing the role of hypocrites in blaming Bush alone for gas prices while Republicans defended Bush by blaming policies and other factors that were truly at fault, during the Bush years Republicans were right and Democrats were being a**holes. Republicans were not obliged to do anything and I dont think they should have done anything different. My problem lies with the fact that 6 years ago Republicans had their facts and arguments together and blamed who and what was really at fault for gas prices, and 6 years later when Obama is president the Republicans go almost out of their way to be able to blame only Obama for gas prices..."He must provide evidence that Republicans really believe something other than what they say, which is that increased U.S. production will lower oil prices"Thats not what we are arguing at all. Im here showing that Republicans claim that only Obama is responsible for gas prices even though in the recent past they have blamed what is truly at fault for gas prices and are now only blaming Obama because its an election year and because hes a Democrat. "Pro seems to assume that anyone critical of President Obama's anti-oil policies is a Republican"I have never once said that anyone critical of Obama must be a Republican, I only claimed that most Republicans are critical of Obama, I never said that Democrats arent critical of him either. " I challenged Pro to distinguish Republicans from non-Republicans in his collection of links, and to show that the Republicans didn't believe what they said. Pro responded with another batch of links without identifying who is supposed to have been ignorant or hypocritical about what."Character limits prevent me from doing such a thing, I gave more links to show more evidence about who is denouncing Obama so that voters can see for themselves who is blaming Obama only for gas prices. Im not going to spell it out for voters because voters arent idiots and they can see for themselves who is saying what by clicking the link and reading."Pro argues that any Republican criticizing President Obama's anti-oil policies are obliged to give a full account of every factor that influences oil prices, and if Republicans do not do that, it's hypocrisy"Im not arguing that either, Republicans arent obliged to give a full account of anything when placing blame, im only showing how their previous accounts of who or what is to blame are contradictory to their latest accounts of who is to blame which would appear to be hypocritical of them."Politicians operate in a debate context, meaning that they know that the other side is there making their case."Politicians only use evidence to support their own arguments and evidence that goes against their case is deliberately attacked or ignored. If anyone on DDO has ever argued a case and found polls and statistics contrary to their claims and ignored them then they are in that case hypocrites since they are ignoring evidence and raw data that shows they are wrong. Let me sum up my case1) Republicans under Bush blamed many things for why gas prices are so high, then when Obama became president many Republicans changed their opinions to blame only Obama for high gas prices.2) Republicans are critical of Obama for high gas prices when Republicans fight legislation that would lower gas prices, like bills that would increase mass transit.3) Republicans would have an entire different argument for whats to blame if Obama was a Republican4) Republicans have been hypocritical in the past5) Most Republicans blame openly blame only Obama for high gas pricesI thank Roy for a great debate :D