Finally, Jim Messina, of the Obama-Biden campaign, wrote in a newsletter:
"If you've seen any coverage of Paul Ryan's speech in Tampa, you know that the consensus among journalists and independent observers is that it was ... factually challenged.
He lied about Medicare. He lied about the Recovery Act. He lied about the deficit and debt. He even dishonestly attacked Barack Obama for the closing of a GM plant in his hometown of Janesville, Wisconsin -- a plant that closed in December 2008 under George W. Bush. He also failed to offer one constructive idea about what he would do to move the country forward.
Don't roll your eyes. We can't just groan and shrug and remark to our like-minded friends that this is ridiculous, because this is a significant moment in this campaign.
The fact that this speech, on this huge stage, is this blatantly false represents a huge bet by the Romney campaign -- they've decided that facts, truth and reality will not be a brake on their campaign message. And they just signaled to the extremist billionaires and corporate interests that support them that they should go ahead and spend their hundreds of millions of dollars attacking Barack Obama with whatever lies can work."
Bravo! Someone on the Democrat Committee finally said it. The problem is, the newsletter went to supporters, so Jim Messina is preaching to the choir, if you will forgive the trite phrase. However, what is clear is that the Democrat Party needs to get focused, and call the GOP out on all the lies and obfuscation, and pure racism, that they use to try to scare voters into voting for the GOP.
More snippets about the honesty-challenged Republicans. First from Mike Ryan (irony?) of the DCCC:
Last night, Paul Ryan brazenly lied to the country. Repeatedly.
He lied about Medicare. He lied about Obamacare. He even attacked President Obama for a GM plant that closed while George W. Bush was still President.
In the next 10 weeks, Republicans and their corporate Super PAC allies are going to repeat all those lies you heard last night ad nauseam. Romney's campaign has already admitted that they won't let their campaign "be dictated by fact-checkers."
They're willing to say anything to tear down President Obama.
From the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, Michael Sargent give us a link to the news media, which finally came out with the lies of the Romney campaign. Even Fox News showed up. Take a read.
"I lost count of Paul Ryan's lies last night. And when he blamed President Obama for a factory that announced it was closing almost a year before his inauguration, I wanted to scream.
But an amazing thing happened this morning. For once the media -- even FOX News -- is calling the Republicans out for their lies. Just take a look at these headlines "
Add in the disenfranchisement -- which remains unpunished; nobody has yet even been arrested -- and you have a perfect storm of venal activity, designed to put the wrong man in the White House.
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