Mr. Romney Reinvents History.

[elleng]

NYT Editorial

Mitt Romney wrapped the most important speech of his life, for Thursday night’s session of his convention, around an extraordinary reinvention of history — that his party rallied behind President Obama when he won in 2008, hoping that he would succeed. “That president was not the choice of our party,” he said. “We are a good and generous people who are united by so much more than divides us.”

The truth, rarely heard this week in Tampa, Fla., is that the Republicans charted a course of denial and obstruction from the day Mr. Obama was inaugurated, determined to deny him a second term by denying him any achievement, no matter the cost to the economy or American security — even if it meant holding the nation’s credit rating hostage to a narrow partisan agenda.

Mr. Romney’s big speech, delivered in a treacly tone with a strange misty smile on his face suggesting he was always about to burst into tears, was of a piece with the rest of the convention. Republicans have offered precious little of substance but a lot of bromides (“A free world is a more peaceful world!”) meant to convey profundity and take passive-aggressive digs at President Obama. But no subjects have received less attention, or been treated with less honesty, than foreign affairs and national security — and Mr. Romney’s banal speech was no exception.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/31/opinion/the-hidden-subject-in-tampa.html?hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1346387198-ff3cGIHy3r5qwhseO4hmdg

[Lugnut]

1. What a stinking load of pure unadulterated crap!

Mittens' party rallied around all right. They pledged to block any progress the President attempted to make which is exactly what they've done.

[gateley]

2. "...with a strange misty smile on his face suggesting he was always about to burst into tears..."

No kidding! I saw a couple of clips on C-Span and that look! I posted in another thread it reminded me of me lying and trying to come across as sincere and heartfelt (I'm a lousy liar). It was disturbing!

[appal_jack]

3. Condi-sleeza Rice is another one like that

Condi-sleeza Rice is another one like that. The nerve of that woman ever opening her mouth about national security is astounding. Plus, every time I hear her, she sounds like she is about to burst into tears.

Of course, given her inattention to Al Quaida prior to 9/11 and complicity in lying us into war withIraq aftewards, she damn well should be crying... behind bars.

-app

[bulloney]

4. Like when people like McConnell, Boehner and Cantor vowed to work to make Obama a one-term POTUS?

Romney once again seems to forget that we can retrieve all kinds of audio and video evidence to shoot these and other statements right out of the water.

There's always some hyperbole and playing with facts at these conventions. But this RNC was off the charts. Projection was everywhere, all of the time, blaming Obama for problems that their party's leaders caused. The absence of Bush the Lesser, Cheney and others is proof that they didn't want any reminders of what a train wreck they left of this country.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. Ryan, Cantor, Kyl, DeMint, Gingrich, Luntz: 15 plotters porking out at lunch on inauguration day:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/25/robert-draper-anti-obama-campaign_n_1452899.html

[oldsarge54]

5. Where Have I Been?

Funny, how many laws have been passed under a bi-partisan vote, besides declaring pizza a vegetable? Did I miss any others? As for a free world is a peaceful world, perhaps Romney should take up smoking, and not necessarily something that RJ Reynolds would sell. Tyrants are falling, but it has not been a peaceful process. We may not like the governments replacing the tyrants, but they are the people's choice, not ours. After the 112th Congress was sworn in, nothing got done, period. People seem to forget the wonders of hostage taking. Remember the battle of extend the Bush tax cuts to the top tier or the unemployed get nothing? Nice. As for uniting the country, Mitt, consider what your supporters say: "Democrats are on welfare, black, illegal, union thugs, gay, lazy teachers, and public servants. Only Republicans work. And the job creators will take care of us." Yeah right, Obama is the divider, bull hockey!

[LuckyLib]

6. This is the truth that so many Repubicans are happy to forget:

"Republicans charted a course of denial and obstruction from the day Mr. Obama was inaugurated, determined to deny him a second term by denying him any achievement, no matter the cost to the economy or American security — even if it meant holding the nation’s credit rating hostage to a narrow partisan agenda."

Congress sat on its hands for four years, waiting to sabotage the 2012 elections by creating a tableau of failure for Obama. They have failed, they will fail.

[andym]

7. Reinvention of history correlates with the extremes of the political spectrum

I hypothesize that reinvention of history correlates with the extremes of the political spectrum. The more to the right or left a person is, the more likely that they reinvent history, purposely or not, to meet their ideological needs.

The implication is that the current GOP ticket has moved so far to the right, that outright fabrication is necessary!

[russspeakeasy]

8. I nearly threw up. Didn't Kindasleazy say something similar ?

[Zoeisright]

9. God, Willard is a fucking liar.

Banal is too kind of a word. That shit he spewed last night was slander.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Generous they are not. They donate lots of charity money, but as a percentage it is a pittance. nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Federal disaster relief is "immoral" while there is a deficit cause by Corporate Relief: thread

That's what Romney / Rmoney said.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021240887

[razsmith01]

13. its true

Mitt Romney wrapped the most important speech

[CRH]

14. And why the DNC is not hammering this home, ...

is a mystery. The filibustered Senate, the party of 'No', then Mitch saying the goal was to make Obama a one term president. Even those seem mild to the house antics with the debt ceiling, and tabling the jobs bill in the House. And why is no one informing the ignorant electorate, which party has consistently run up the national debt with deficit spending, raided the social security fund to back their foreign and under funded domestic policy, while crying about entitlement spending.

I fear the DNC knows, logic has no place in a democracy of the uninformed, logic can not compete with the thirty second sound bite lie, logic dies with oft repeated lies.

Sorry for the rant.

[elleng]

16. Rant is OK.

I suspect Dems will start to hammer this home after DNC.

[magic59]

15. Like 99% of republicans he is a compulsive liar

They have also proved that they will do every dirty trick in the book to get their power to destroy back. Republicans are the worst terrorist organization this country has ever seen.

[Omaha Steve]

17. K&R!