The GOP campaign is based on five main themes, three negative and two positive.Negative:
The claim that Obama denigrated businessmen, saying that they didn’t build their own firms — which isn’t true.
The claim that Obama has gutted Medicare to pay for the expansion of health insurance — which isn’t true.
The claim that Obama has eliminated the work requirement for welfare — which isn’t true.Positive:
The claim that Ryan has a plan to balance the budget — which isn’t true.
The claim that Romney has a plan for economic recovery — which isn’t true. (The Economist: “The Romney Programme for Economic Recovery, Growth and Jobs” is like “Fifty Shades of Grey” without the sex).I now remember where the above is from. It is from one of Paul Krugman´s blogs.
By the way, PolitiFact.com and FactChecking.org, very respectable organizations, both show that the Romney has been much more dishonest in his statements and ads so far this year than has been Obama. And I think both of groups compiled those numbers before the convention.
I hope everyone is enjoying the hilarious fact that Romney and Ryan, the entitlement-reform guys, have been trying to pose as the saviors of Medicare against Obama, who is trying to destroy it. I hope they continue with that theme because I have no doubt the Democrats can win any demagogic contest the Republicans choose to start on the subject of Medicare. It is interesting because Romney/Ryan are being dishonest about both Obama and their own intentions as regards Medicare.
And finally, does anyone think that Paul Ryan is so out of touch with his own hometown not to know that the automobile factory closed before Obama ever campaigned in Janesville. It didn´t keep him from making an outrageous "misstatement of fact" about it in his acceptance speech.
By the way, and this is not totally off the topic of competing visions for the country. During one of my summers working on carnivals in Wisconsin, we played the county fair in Janesville. It had been one of the very rare "circus moves," which involved tearing down the carnival one night after closing and driving to another town and setting up in time to open for a matinee the next day. I remember being dead tired and sleeping inside one of the game tents that next morning, probably 4-5 hours before we were scheduled to open, and having the Janesville kids opening the tent flaps and waving money. They wanted to play the games. Probably had something to do with the fact that there were good=paying union jobs in Janesville.
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