Lie, Lie, Lie
a good compil of Romneys Big Lies.
Lie, Lie, Lie
AUGUST 21, 2012 BY MARIO PIPERNI
"So this will be the entire point of the Romney-Ryan campaign. Lie lie lie. Muddy the waters. Turn day to night, fire to water, champagne to piss."
The above quote from Michael Tomasky describes perfectly the strategy in play by Mitt Romney in this election season. It’s a version of the Big Lie (make it big and repeat it often) which Republicans have used effectively over the last decade. It was used on John Kerry in 2004 when Swiftboaters successfully turned a Kerry strength (war hero) into a liability (war fraud). The entire Iraq debacle was a Big Lie on steroids as was most of what transpired during the Bush presidency.
The election victory of a black liberal in 2008 elevated the Big Lie to a new level and this time it was tinged with racism as the right worked overtime to cast doubts on Obama’s patriotism, his religion and even his place of birth. The intent, of course, was to portray Barack Obama as being anything other than a true blue American.
And now, finding themselves unable to fight against the real Obama, Republicans and the Romney campaign have created a fictional Obama to do battle with as a means to divert attention from their own failed policies and ideas which they are unable to defend. Muddying the waters and blatant lying are the tools they use to accomplish the task.
The lies to date have included:
Obama wants to gut Medicare
He has raised taxes on the middle class
The health care law will increase the deficit by a trillion or more
The stimulus failed
Obama is a reckless spender
The Big Lie of late is Romney’s claim that President Obama has removed work requirements in federal welfare law.
Blatantly untrue but that hasn’t stopped Romney from pushing the lie with a series of ads and stump speeches. Republicans feel empowered to continue with the Big Lie strategy because of a media which has allowed them, for the most part, to get away with it.
It is going to have to be up to the Obama campaign to hammer home the truth day in and day out and call the liars out at every turn. That and forcing Republicans to defend their indefensible positions on taxation, health care, abortion, gay rights, women’s issues, Medicare and Social Security is the only way to go.
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