Given the clumsy, clueless and mean-spirited 'debates' dumped out by the passing parade of Republican presidential candidates for much of 2011 and 2012, the final days of their selection of a candidate for president was never going to hold much credibility, was it?
The lack of honesty, ideas, plans and the abundance of denials that their party has stalled Congress for the last 3 years has been difficult to witness. I'm all for opening up a discussion of ideas about political policies - but it just has not happened. What's left is a precarious balancing act which signifies little other than the absence of ideas.
Perhaps it shouldn't be any surprise then that vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan hauled out a litany of distortions and deceptions while attempting to excite the folks in Tampa. Lies are what are cited in one report today (limiting the focus to just the five "biggest" ones):
"I’d like to talk, instead, about what Ryan actually said—not because I
find Ryan’s ideas objectionable, although I do, but because I thought
he was so brazenly willing to twist the truth.
"At least five times, Ryan misrepresented the facts. And while none of
the statements were new, the context was. It’s one thing to hear them
on a thirty-second television spot or even in a stump speech before a
small crowd. It’s something else entirely to hear them in prime time
address, as a vice presidential nominee is accepting his party’s
nomination and speaking to the entire country."
And the most-repeated and lovingly embraced distortions from The Nominee himself, Mitt Romney, are likely to get repeated tonight too.
As others have noted, it's just sad and weird that the only idea the GOP is pushing into the political field is simply - "We still don't like Obama and that's enough for us and should be for you too."
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