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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forum10 "Rankest Hypocrisies of Mitt Romney and the Republican Party"
10 Rankest Hypocrisies of Mitt Romney and the Republican Partyby Mark Howard at AlterNet
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/10-rankest-hypocrisies-mitt-romney-and-republican-party?paging=off
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Modern Republicans give us an opportunity to peer into the soul of a party that has embraced an open aversion to the truth. Meanwhile, their hypocrisy has reached historic proportions. Its as if they have lost the ability to recognize the obvious contradictions they put forth. Or, more likely, they just dont care, since lies and hypocrisy are an efficient way to score political points and smear opponents. The hyper-hypocrisy of todays GOP has spread through the partys bloodstream. Below is a sampling of the most recent examples of rank right-wing hypocrisy.
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 wouldnt 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 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.
2. In an interview on the Bill Bennett radio show, Mitt Romney lashed out at what he considered to be false ads by a pro-Obama super PAC. In the course of his tirade he lamented that in the past, when people pointed out that something was inaccurate, why, campaigns pulled the ad. Romney said this even as he refused to pull his own ads that had been rated Pants-on-Fire lies by PolitiFact. Subsequently, the Romney campaign decided to abandon any pretense to honesty and declare that fact-checkers had jumped the shark, and that they would no longer let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers. In other words, we will lie if we feel like it.
3. At the GOP convention in Tampa, Ann Romney gave a keynote speech in which she told women, You are the best of America. You are the hope of America. There would not be an America without you. It was a naked attempt to appeal to women voters the GOP is having trouble connecting with. However, beyond her flattery she never uttered a word of support for issues of importance to women. There was no mention of equal pay, gender discrimination in the workplace, parental leave, or child welfare services like healthcare or nutritional programs. The only references she made to education were how fortunate her husband and children were to have the benefit of attending first-rate institutions that most Americans will never see. And the GOP platform strikes a markedly different tone by banning access to family planning services and effectively asserting that women, the hope of America, are not competent to make decisions about their own bodies.
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10 "Rankest Hypocrisies of Mitt Romney and the Republican Party" (Original Post)
applegrove
Sep 2012
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Take heart Mr. Howard - perhaps Mr. Romney and Mr. Ryan will read your comments and realize the error of their ways.
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