It’s pretty clear which direction the remainder of the 2012 Republican National Convention will go… it’s not lofty.
Rick Santorum has managed to mostly fix his Google problem by embracing hands. Many hands. Lots and lots of hands. RIck Google Bombed hands in his speech.
Mr. Santorum also took the step to perpetuate a new theme in the 2012 election that republicans want to push: welfare. More specifically, the underpinning imagery and meaning among souther, white, working class people of what a person on welfare looks like. Every single person who has looked at the Republicans’ claims that Obama is waiving the work mandate in welfare has said that it is blatantly wrong. It’s astoundingly fasle. Mitt Romney and the republicans have been called out on the flat out lie on many occasions… but they still run the point. They know they are telling a lie, have been caught doing so, but they keep doing anyway using “welfare queen” as bait. As one Romney campaign official put it, “We Won’t ‘Let Our Campaign Be Dictated By Fact-Checkers’” Amazing.
Love. Oh wait, NOT love. According to Chris Christie, it’s all about Respect, not Love. Poor John Lennon had it soo wrong, Chris Christie takes the torch of social consciousness, I guess. BUT give it some thought and we all know the point he was trying to make: politicians need to make the hard choices even if they are not popular – that’s what Chris Christie meant even though it sounded quite strange in his boisterous claim that Respect is better than love. But we know what Chris Christie meant, so we’ll leave it at that..
… which is not what Republicans are going with their continued use of Obama’s out of context quote about building one’s own business. The republicans have shirts and signs and bumper stickers “I built my own business” and that theme came up in nearly every speech on the first day of the 2012 RNC. This is yet another fully false product of the Mitt Romney campaign. It was taken totally out of context, and the Romney campaign has been called out on it over, and over, and over again. Yet they keep running it… because as the Romney campaign official tells America, “We Won’t ‘Let Our Campaign Be Dictated By Fact-Checkers”
And don’t get me started on how the speakers bastardize anyone and everyone who has ever received government assistance, but then in the same speeches talk about how their own family managed to survive because of… the GI Bill, or grants from the government so they could home school their 7 children.
However, it has been made perfectly clear that “facts” are not something in which the Republican Party is interested. Only fear. Only hate. Only getting more money and more power.
