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Originally Posted by fatbuckRTO
But back to the original point that the republicans are so far out of touch with facts as to be essentially running against a fictional opponent:
http://news.yahoo.com/romney-says-ob...-politics.html
This is, what, 3 weeks after running an entire convention with the theme "We built that," based on an out-of-context quote from the president, insinuating that the president said business owners didn't build their own businesses.
With this latest quote, Romney has described himself to the letter. So I guess he isn't so much running against a fictional opponent as he is running against himself. Considering his record in Massachussetts, I suppose that has always been the case with his presidential campaigns... |
That is how campaigns have worked for the last 3 decades anyway. It wasn't the Obama campaign directly but their minions (just like the swiftboat crew were Bush's minions) who put out a video of a Ryan lookalike literally pushing an old woman off a cliff in a wheelchair for his proposed Medicare cuts. Clinton forgot to mention that in his DNC speech when he said Ryan and Obama's cuts were exactly the same amount. The Obama campaign also hammers Romney for writing an Op-Ed saying that GM and Chrysler should go bankrupt. They present the only possible result of this would have put a million people out of work. They fail to mention that under Obama GM and Chrysler went bankrupt.
Each candidate creates a caricature of their opponent and runs against that. The bad part about the debates is there is no where near enough time to actually discuss anything, it just ends up being sound bites.
They should hold an open discussion that lasts for hours and hours. They could have breaks every so often where each can fact check the other's stats/claims, check sources, and respond. Have open topics running concurrently for hours on end. Most people wouldn't watch it (they like their reality TV scripted and wouldn't be willing to fuck up a weekend) but I would watch the shit out of it.