… because, you know, they don’t read. The just repeat what they hear on Fox News. Sarah Kliff explains where the infamous $700 billion figure came from. And even after explaining this, wingnut commenters just repeat the talking points that Kliff refuted.
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Politics. Society. Group Therapy.
The “Big Lie” worked really well for Reagan — thirty years ago.
Will not ever read? Nothing like a head start, these numbskulls are as stupid as any before. Look out, duck, cover, don’t look down again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lci0pnWk7nM
At this point, the only things the Republicans are good at, are lying, then taking those lies and making them into talking points, and repeating them often enough so that the MSM will absorb those talking points and turn them into meme’s.
And, of course, finding and manipulating wedge issues, like “God, Gay’s, and Guns.”
This all helps them win elections.
I don’t for a second underestimate their ability to make people think that it’s Obama and the Democrats who want to cut Medicare, and not them.
President Obama and the Democrats have been given a great opportunity to turn Romney’s decision to chose Ryan as his running mate to their advantage.
They’d better not blow it.
They need to find a nice, quick and easy way to message this, and use it in every district in the country – sparing NO expense – because the Republicans won’t spare any. And they have more to spend.
Conservatives know that the demographics are against them now, TODAY, hence their voter suppression efforts, and those demographics are getting worse for the every day.
If they’re going to finally finish changing this country into a Plutocracy, they have to win now, TODAY.
And they will do ANY and EVERY thing that they can to win.
On HuffPo this a.m., I noticed a piece on Bill Maher referring to the fact that Ryan and Palin have the same positions, but he’s called smart, and she’s ….. , well.
It is the basis for a potentially great ad. Best part: Palin would protest so mightily that it would get replayed over and over! For free! Ha! as Chris Matthews would say.
Yeah.
It’s a great lie, for the GOP.
Not only does it seriously confuse voters who actually want Medicare protected, especially the old whose brains have shrunk, but also it is a lie that takes about a tenth of a second to tell and ten minutes to refute.
Why the hell would they stop telling it?