Mitt Romney and the Republican Party are betting (literally) that you’re not as smart as you think you are. That’s how they plan to win the 2012 election: Keep telling lies, and even if caught red-handed (multiple times), just keep running the ads, and ignore the facts.
Personally, I’d like elected officials who give me a little more respect than that.
The Republican electoral philosophy: If voters are stupid, then they can be bought with advertising. And that’s exactly what we see happening. It’s always been this way, but now it’s beyond all comprehension during the 2012 election and in the post Citizen’s United world.
What’s stopping this tactic? A billion dollars will be spent on advertising for the Republicans to win… well over 2/3s of that by just three super PACs. Most of that money will be spent on attack ads designed to 1) bend the truth, and 2) scare or anger people.
The Romney Campaign’s ceaseless pounding of the Obama mis-quote “You have a business, you didn’t build that” proves it once again. They’re made commercials, got Fox news interviewing 4 years olds about it, and the world’s worst t-shirts all pushing something that President Obama DID NOT REALLY SAY. Romney is giving a stump speech that says the EXACT same thing that President Obama said in that speech. Astounding. Shameless, really. But he’s counting on the fact that the Average American stupid. That’s what they think. If they win, then they’re right.
Just look at Wisconsin: Scott Walker won, spending more money than ever has been spent in Wisconsin for an election… with millions coming from outside groups (outside of the state) who needed both a test that money works, and they needed a conservative hero all the other governors can site as a leading Republican in politics.
Ahh, yes… Republicans are counting on the fact that the average American is stupid. Fat, lazy, and stupid…
Cynical? Maybe. But prove me wrong. Yes, I’m a liberal who also watches Rachel Maddow, and The Daily Show, but that doesn’t make me wrong. Don’t call me names: prove me wrong with facts.
Maddow (since mentioned above) has been making the point that one very unique thing about the Mitt Romney campaign for president is that, when they get caught in a 100% lie… they don’t care. Mitt doesn’t feel anything is wrong with lying to the public… because with enough money to buy commercials people will believe them. It’s been proven over and over in the past: enough money = enough commercials to bend or block the truth just enough to win the election.
Yup… Mitt Romney and the Republican party are counting on a dumb electorate. Angry and dumb: easy to manipulate those people. Voters who educate themselves and read more media than just that that comes from Fox are dangerous. Those people actually care if someone feels any sort of shame by lying, or if they just lie, laugh about it, and keep telling the lie because they know that it doesn’t matter… because the voters are stupid.
So this election really might come down to: are you as stupid as Mitt Romney hopes you are?
