Mitt Romney is a bloviating bag of
bullshit who lies about everything because he stands for nothing.
There is no there there. He has no substance, no intellectual
integrity anyone can grasp or depend on. If you are running against
him, you cannot draw a clear distinction between your policies and
his policies because he will tell each audience what he thinks that
particular audience wants to hear, and he is very good at creating
false choices. This makes it all too likely that you will spend most
of your time fighting the smoke rather than the fire. I am afraid
that is what President Obama did during the last debate.
President Obama must bear in mind that
the polls indicate a close race. Since Mr. Romney's mendacity should
be obvious to anyone paying attention, we can only conclude that a
large percentage of the population does not want to believe the
Nit-Mitt is really such a fraud. It is also obvious that any
thoughtful person running against this liar must find a way to negate
the lies. President Obama must become the prosecutor. He must
prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Romney is a liar and thereby
force Mr. Romney into an honest discussion of the issues.
There was a brief moment during the
debate when President Obama challenged a Romney lie. The moment
occurred when Romney denied that he was proposing a $5 trillion tax
cut. “I'm not looking for a $5 trillion tax cut,” Romney said.
What I've said is I won't put in place a tax cut that adds to the
deficit.” Mr. Obama pointed out that during the past few weeks Mr.
Romney was proposing a tax cut of $5 trillion. “I guess you didn't
meant it,” President Obama added.
President Obama's reply was good as far
as it went but more was needed to fully expose the deception. At
that point Mr. Obama should have addressed the audience: “When Mr.
Romney says he won't put in place a tax cut that adds to the deficit
it can only mean one of two things. He either means he will not give
the tax cuts he has been promising or he is making a promise to us
that he cannot keep in order to prevent us from demanding that he
specifically name the programs he is going to slash.” It is at
that point that he should have gone into the arithmetic argument.
Another thing that struck me about the
debate is how often Romney said he cared about the middle class.
That is when Mr. Obama should have brought up Mr. Romney's statement
about 47% of the people thinking they are victims and refusing to
take responsibility for their lives. He could also say that Romney
would support job act if he really cared about creating jobs, and
that he would tell Congress to pass an extension of the Bush tax cuts
for the middle class if he cared about the middle class!
