This year’s Republican campaign may be the most dishonest in history.
A couple of weeks ago I listed 10 major falsehoods and gaffes of Republican VP candidate Paul Ryan. He repeated several of them in his Tampa speech, and added a few more.
In honest political debate, when a candidate says something that is not true, he is confronted by journalists and the public, and either gives evidence that it is true, or backs off. Ryan continues to insist on repeating known falsehoods, to the extent that even Fox Cable News lamented his dishonesty.
Voters need to ask who Ryan represents.
It is people who make a million dollars a year or more. Everything he says is intended to produce policy that benefits them, and which hurts working people.
Millionaires don’t like having to pay for government-provided infrastructure, or health care for workers, and don’t like having to put up with unions.
The rest of us like driving on roads without potholes, over bridges that don’t fall down, and not being bankrupted when we need an operation.
Since most Americans would be crazy to vote for policies that only benefit our three million wealthiest, out of 310 million, Ryan tries to appeal to workers with religion (banning abortion). He needs to put together a coalition of millionaires and some religious workers in order to win. But even that wouldn’t be enough. He has to get people on his side who would be hurt by his policies. And that requires that he simply lie to them.
So here are some new lies he just retailed, along with a reiteration of my earlier refutation of points drawn from his stock speeches, which he put right back in his Convention speech.
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