The Party of Hypocrisy

Last night was Romney’s acceptance speech for the republican nomination.  So many, many things wrong.

Many of the speeches were so focused around parents of grandparents immigrating to the US with nothing, seeing it as the land of opportunity.  Funny, for a party that so openly despises immigration.

Romney at one point said how important education is.  Funny, when you consider that his plan calls for slashing education grants and scholarships, as well as cutting funding to public schools by a reported $4.8 BILLION.

Ryan and Romney keep talking of the hundreds of billions of dollars that Obama will gut from Medicare to fund Obama care.  Not only is that not true, he’s not defunding Medicare by that amount, and Medicare benefits will actually go up under Obama’s plan, but Ryan’s own budget has the exact same provision in it.  The Republicans keep using this talking point, even though EVERY major news outlet has debunked it as patently false.

Romney paid homage to Neil Armstrong.  Funny, when you consider that the republicans generally consider science unimportant, and have called out the recent Mars missions as wasteful spending, preferring instead to slash NASA’s budget and try to publicly disgrace them.

An overwhelming theme of the convention was the whole “we built it” thing.  Funny, considering you’re saying that in a publicly financed and built convention center.  I’d say that the irony is lost on them, but they don’t consider it ironic, because they either chose to not take Obama’s “you didn’t build that” quote in the context in which it was meant, or they don’t know that it has a context.  It’s even funnier when you consider how many of the “we built that” businesses were assisted by government backed financing, grants and tax breaks.  

And Ryan, how much of that stimulus money that you so viscerally opposed did you end up asking for for your district and interests?  That’s not irony, that’s plain old hypocrisy.

And oh yeah, Misters Ryan and Romney, you’re not allowed to demonize the president for doing things that YOU SUPPORTED and for failing to do things that YOU OPPOSED.  The examples are numerous.  Republicans criticized Obama for not saving an auto plant that was slated to close before he took office.  Funny, Romney wrote an article in 2008 called “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt”.  Ryan criticized Obama for not acting on the Simpson Bowles recommendations.  Funny, he fails to mention that in order for those recommendations to go anywhere, 14 of the 18 members on the commission (which he was a part of) had to vote yes.  Needless to say, Ryan and 6 others voted no.

The rest of the speeches were just peppered with so many lies, and falsehoods and misrepresentations.  It’s sad.  But when your campaign comes out on record saying that they’re not going to let fact-checkers stand in their way, I guess this is was you can expect.  Seems like when Romney was blasting the Obama campaign and desperate and divisive, it was a desperate attempt to cover up his own lack of substance.