{"id":8802,"date":"2012-09-09T09:06:54","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T16:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8802"},"modified":"2012-09-09T09:06:54","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T16:06:54","slug":"willards-top-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/09\/willards-top-ten\/","title":{"rendered":"Willard’s Top Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s hard to remember any political endeavor that even approaches the current Republican campaign in dishonesty and hypocrisy.  That makes it a daunting task to choose the ten most hypocritical acts of Romney and his minions.  Mark Howard has done an admirable job assembling that task.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"9romney-hypocrite\"Modern Republicans give us an opportunity to peer into the soul of a party that has embraced an open aversion to the truth<\/strong>. Meanwhile, their hypocrisy has reached historic proportions. It\u2019s as if they have lost the ability to recognize the obvious contradictions they put forth. Or, more likely, they just don\u2019t care, since lies and hypocrisy are an efficient way to score political points and smear opponents.  The hyper-hypocrisy of today\u2019s GOP has spread through the party\u2019s bloodstream. Below is a sampling of the most recent examples of rank right-wing hypocrisy. <\/p>\n

1. Romney has promised that his first action on day one of a Romney administration would be to repeal Obama’s Affordable Care Act. Of course, he wouldn\u2019t have any authority to do that and attempting to pass legislation in congress would get stopped short in the Democratic-controlled senate. However, he may want to have a discussion with his running mate. It was recently disclosed that  Paul Ryan quietly applied for funding <\/a>for a Wisconsin healthcare clinic in his district. The funds would come entirely from the Affordable Care Act that Ryan and Romney now propose to repeal<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

2. In an interview on the Bill Bennett radio show, Mitt Romney  lashed out <\/a>at what he considered to be false ads by a pro-Obama super PAC. In the course of his tirade he lamented that \u201cin the past, when people pointed out that something was inaccurate, why, campaigns pulled the ad.\u201d Romney said this even as he refused to pull his own ads that had been rated \u201cPants-on-Fire\u201d lies by  PolitiFact<\/a>. Subsequently, the Romney campaign decided to  abandon any pretense to honesty <\/a>and declare that fact-checkers had \u201cjumped the shark,\u201d and that they would no longer \u201clet our campaign be dictated by fact checkers.\u201d In other words, we will lie if we feel like it<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I only provided two of the ten, so I urge you to click through for the other eight.  Every American voter should understand them.<\/font><\/p>\n

Of one thing, I am certain.  Before the day is over, the Republican War on Truth will have moved some of these off the list with fresh assaults.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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