That Old Time Depression

Reported from a Mitt Romney event:

“I’m crazy about him,” said Blanche Gibbes, a stately 91-year-old Columbia matron in a gray sweater and matching hair. She stood for more than an hour to see Romney, although she said that any Republican will get her vote in November. “We’ve got to get this country back in order. This depression feels so much different than the last one.”

That would be the Great Depression. She was a teenager for that one.

If it felt like the last one, then things would be okay?

Ms. Gibbes is right that "any Republican" is capable of making this depression just like the Great Depression.