The Eyes of a Goat

Posted on August 9, 2012 at 7:34 am by Bob Cesca

Ed Kilgore nails the cynicism of the Romney lies, specifically regarding the latest welfare reform lie:

How did the Romney campaign’s response to this rather categorical rejection of the ad’s claims? It just repeated them. I swear, trying to engage these people in any sort of reasoned discourse is like looking into the eyes of a goat: nothing there but the determination to keep on keeping on, truth be damned. Team Mitt has a lot riding on this latest effort to tar (racial allusion intended) the president with the “welfare” meme, which unsubtly links repeated GOP claims that Obama is a wild-eyed socialist “redistributor of wealth” to the least popular and most racially explosive programmatic element of the New Deal/Great Society legacy. The welfare ad is going to be in heavy rotation according to Romney campaign sources, and no number of refutations of its central claims (by Clinton or by “fact-checkers” like PolitiFact, which quickly gave the ad a “Pants on Fire” designation) will stop them.

Right. They’ll just keep going because they realize the system favors the lies and buries the corrections. AM talk radio and Fox News will repeat the laws by rote and the rest of the press will hesitate to debunk them because of the liberal media smear. So, then, lie all you want.

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  • D_C_Wilson

    We knew this was coming. Romney’s very first anti-Obama ad took a clip of Obama quoting McCain in 2008 and made it look like it was Obama talking in 2011. When confronted about this distortion, his campaign response was essentially to say, “So what?”.

    These people have no shame and they’re working to elect a man who has no principles. If he wins, he will be exactly what Grover Norquist wants: A puppet who will rubber stamp whatever the extreme right asks for.

  • GrafZeppelin127

    Here’s another one:

    Romney is not going to repeal the Affordable Care Act (a/k/a “Obamacare.”) Here’s what’s going to happen:

    Sometime in 2013, Congress will pass, and President Romney will sign, the Restoring American Freedom And Liberty Care Act of 2013 (RAFALCA).

    In reality, RAFALCA will make a few nominal, cosmetic changes to the ACA that won’t really do anything except maybe save the insurance and pharmaceutical companies a few million dollars. Fox “News,” however, will “report” that RAFALCA -fully- repeals and replaces the ACA. Fox will also “report” that RAFALCA effectively eliminates all of the bad things in the ACA, including [X], [Y] and [Z] (none of which are actually in the ACA), and adds some good things to the ACA, like [A], [B] and [C] (things that the ACA in fact already does or is scheduled to start doing by 2014). Fox will also announce that health care reform in America, now that the ACA has been repealed and replaced by RAFALCA, should now rightly be called “RomneyCare.”

    In 2014 the exchanges will go online and millions of people will now have access to affordable health care. Fox “News” will “report” this as a triumph for Romney and RomneyCare.

    By 2016, Fox will “report” that RomneyCare has cost far less than ObamaCare would have cost, and has actually reduced the federal deficit, another triumph for Romney and RomneyCare that should ensure his re-election.

    The script is already in rehearsal over at Fox.

    • http://drangedinaz.wordpress.com/ IrishGrrrl

      Graf, I’ve said this before, you really should have your own blog. If you don’t want the hassle of maintaining your own, you’re more than welcome to come post as a guest writer on my blog whenever the mood strikes you. I’ve already quoted from your comments on here a few times, BTW.

  • http://drangedinaz.wordpress.com/ IrishGrrrl

    “AM talk radio and Fox News will repeat the laws by rote…”

    Did you mean “repeat the lies”?

  • incredulous72

    Here’s the thing . . .

    Romney’s preachin’ to the choir. Whoever’s listening to this dog whistle nonsense felt that way to begin with. Romney’s not winning independents with this mess, nor is he bringing any Dems into his camp (unless of course like I said, those particular people thought this way to begin with).

    Romney believes he can use the tactics of the Bush administration (denial, bullying, lying, rinse and repeat) to win this election, forgetting that the majority of Americans remember those tactics and are not falling for it again.