NYT: The Shallow End of the Campaign

[TroyD]

EDITORIAL

September 10, 2012

If the first weekend of Mitt Romney’s general election campaign is any indication, the country is in for eight weeks of wild, often random answers to some of the most important policy questions. Voters trying to understand the positions of Mr. Romney and Representative Paul Ryan are going to have a harder time than ever.

On issue after issue raised in the first weekend of interviews after the conventions, Romney and Ryan actively tried to obscure their positions, as if a clear understanding of their beliefs about taxes, health care or spending would scare away anyone who was listening. Aware that President Obama’s policies in these areas are quite popular once people learn about them, the Republicans are simply sowing confusion.

Here are a few examples:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/11/opinion/the-shallow-end-of-the-campaign.html

[Scuba]

1. When you can't win on policy ...

... lie about your policies, purge voters from the rolls, require ID's to vote, place "intimidators" at the polls and oh, by the way, make sure you have a 24 X 7 media machine propagating your lies, spreading fear and instigating hate.



All our side has is better policy.

[The Blue Flower]

2. Not a single Rmoney supporter in the comments

We get it.

[TomCADem]

3. Republicans Say They Want To Campaign On The Issues, But...

...They then do the best they can to duck any discussion of the issues and how they will address them.