Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Obama lets the cat out of the bag

There are two ways to respond to an onslaught of negative, vicious attacks. One is to say they are negative and vicious and to try to disprove them. But like birthers, the ones making the attacking continue to claim there is an “open question.” The other is to go on offense.
Romney seems to have seized the opportunity to pivot away from talking about when he resigned and his tax returns to this revelation about Obama’s underlying philosophy. In a speech in Pennsylvania he hit his stride:
There is a reason the Romney campaign is highlighting this. Combined with the real possibility that we are heading to 1 % (or less) growth, Obama’s rag on individual merit allows Romney to combine two critical points: the economy is terrible and Obama is making it worse. The reason why Obama has to go, he can argue, is that he’s soaked in the toxic philosophy of anti-capitalism.
There is a moral case to be made here as well. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), picking up where he left off in his interview with Jim Pethokoukis, took to Facebook. It’s worth reading in full, but here is the core of the argument:

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/obama-lets-the-cat-out-of-the-bag/2012/07/17/gJQAq0igrW_blog.html

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