GOP Convention Fails at Principal Political Goal: Convincing Swing Voters That Romney Understands Their Lives

Robert, it sounds like they failed to convince you - but you had all the facts, which made their attempt pointless.



Unfortunately, 'swing voters' are missing a lot of facts. In addition, the President has been MIA the last several weeks (at least there has been no ad presence here in PA while rmoney has been saturating the media).



And true to his 'prim and proper - no matter how self-destructive or generally destructive it may be' self, no counterpoint jabs for the republican convention. Let's see how much respect the rmoney camps (i.e. all the PACs) show for Obama and the Dem convention... and let's see if speakers at the Dem convention will be permitted to produce the facts that you have listed above during major, televised speeches so that the 'swing voters' can become more educated.



If the lies go unchallenged and truth remains too prickly for Obama's fragile sensibilities to permit him to speak it and act on it in ways that confront the movement that is crushing this nation, then it really doesn't matter what happens in November at all.
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The Case Obama Needs Progressives to Make Against Republican Convention Attacks

Why doesn't Obama make the case himself?! After all, he was the one who picked his team and made the decisions to back down to republicans before they threatened, after they threatened, and then a little more for good measure. It was Obama who did everything he could to make it look to everyone like he's working closely and well with republicans.



Now after the President set up this comical facade, we have to explain how and why things were really, really bad? Right.



Your article really makes the point that the President should have fought tooth and nail throughout every day of his term. A public fight has a way of imbuing people with lingering memories punches being thrown in both directions and in the context of the actual battles while they occur. Trying to go through the scorecard of the fight, years later, with people who never knew any fight over things like committee votes existed - is incredibly weak.



And weak is the best word to describe the type of leadership we've gotten from the President. His weakness has brought us to this stage where millions of voters don't understand where he stands. Hopefully, future Democratic candidates will at least learn how NOT to lead.
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Paul Ryan Got Federal Funds To Help With Bush-Era GM Plant Closure He Blames On Obama

If it's becoming more clear, rest assured that several billion dollars of koch et. al. money will fix that right away because the President will not fight back, ever.



How do I know this is true? Because he only rarely fought back against the nonsense floating around in 2008. The people running romney's campaign know the President didn't fight back against lies and smears that arose during every legislative turn of the last 3.5 years. So given that there is virtually NO CHANCE that they will be "outted" by the media or sued for slander or libel, the republican party and it's corporate pals will say anything.



Faced with the same odds, almost any greedy candidate would do the same thing. Unwittingly, the President has helped set up the USA for disaster. Instead of changing the guts of this nation's broken system, he decided it'd be better to use the system to make everyone happy... fail.



Obama is the perfect candidate for the corporate elite to crush in lies. I don't watch a lot of TV, but I've seen nothing but slanderous material from the rmoney PAC ads. Nothing from Obama at all. If he sits by and keeps mum or tries to 'stay above' it, his lead will be gone by election day and we get to become the next Mexico in a couple years. Maybe in 2016, those of us who still have the right to vote for a non-republican can turn the tide.
About Paul Ryan
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On Paul Ryan

It's harder to get away with scams when you're in DC because the dollar numbers are huge and the hands that touch those dollars are few. By contrast, once money slides all the way down to the hundreds of thousands of municipal entities, it's almost impossible to get caught if you run a scam. There aren't enough investigators to track it - and not so shockingly, the ryan types of budgets work to prevent regulators of any kind to police such matters.



Pushing programs out to the "communities" sounds nice and folksy in theory, but in reality, it becomes a pay-to-play form of institutional patronage - which is probably explains exactly why the republican party would like to implement it. It works very well for them in Pennsylvania. Voters have amazing recall for the photos where a politician stands next to wheel-chair-bound folks holding a huge cardboard check.
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Harry Reid Romney Tax Tipster 'Is A Credible Person,' New Source Tells CNN (VIDEO)

From a pure logical or legal perspective, that may be true.



However, when the accusation is based on data traditionally released by every other candidate in this sort of race, it's fair game.



It'd be like leaving 10 years of your work experience out of a resume when applying for a job. Can a prospective employer looking at it prove that you were in prison for 10 years or in the Peace Corp? Of course not. But you can easily clear up the conjecture by releasing the information that everyone else going for the same job puts up.



The ball is in your boy's court. Doubt you will care what the truth is, though. Even if/when he's proved a tax cheat, some pretzel-logic conspiracy theory somehow tied to Soros will probably get the nod from your squad, proving once again that rules of logic fly away from team neo-con the minute facts arrive that crush yet another republican fairytale.
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