2. Deceiving
On the other hand, to anyone paying the slightest bit of attention to facts, Ryans speech was an apparent attempt to set the world record for the greatest number of blatant lies and misrepresentations slipped into a single political speech. On this measure, while it was Romney who ran the Olympics, Ryan earned the gold.
The good news is that the Romney-Ryan campaign has likely created dozens of new jobs among the legions of additional fact checkers that media outlets are rushing to hire to sift through the mountain of cow dung that flowed from Ryans mouth. Said fact checkers have already condemned certain arguments that Ryan still irresponsibly repeated.
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3. Distracting
And then theres what Ryan didnt talk about.
Ryan didnt mention his extremist stance on banning all abortions with no exception for rape or incest, a stance that is out of touch with 75% of American voters.
Ryan didnt mention his previous plan to hand over Social Security to Wall Street.
Ryan didnt mention his numerous votes to raise spending and balloon the deficit when George W. Bush was president.
Ryan didnt mention how his budget would eviscerate programs that help the poor and raise taxes on 95% of Americans in order to cut taxes for millionaires and billionaires even further and increase yes, increase the deficit.
These aspects of Ryans resume and ideology are sticky to say the least. He would have been wise to tackle them head on and try and explain them away in his first real introduction to voters. But instead of Ryan airing his own dirty laundry, Democrats will get the chance.
