This Presidential election could and perhaps should be promoted as a professional wrestling match: it pits the Good Guy(s) against the Bad Guy(s), rendered in such broad strokes by Whoever worked up the story line as to render it closer to a caricature than reality.
Romney cheats, and cheats, and cheats again (those ads that are a tissue of lies), then raises his hands to the heavens and protests his innocence. Who, me? And then takes it that one over-the-top cartoonish step further and points his finger at Obama and accuses him of being the real Bad Guy.
Bad Guy Rule #1: first cheat, then whine.
He and Ryan go Orwellian about Medicare. They're actually here to save Medicare, never mind what objective third-party analysis (and their own prior statements) tell us.
Bad Guy Rule #2: Make shit up. And then get all googly-eyed about it.
They are also world-class flip-floppers. Romney was for it before he was against it with regard to, well, just about everything. Ditto, it now seems, for Ryan.
Bad Guy Rule #3: Do whatever it takes to win.
Wait, there's more! Like latter-day poll taxes to disenfranchise voters likely to favor the Democrats. And so we have more Worldwide Wrestling comedy: uttering non-stop platitudes about Our Beloved Democracy while keeping their foot on voters' throats.
Bad Guy Rule #4. See Bad Guy Rule #3.
So there you have the script: the Bad Guys, playing by their own no-ethical-center rules, running against a fundamentally decent man who (thank goodness) has thoroughly lost his Good Man's patience and bitch-slaps the Bad Guys as required. It's gratifying but kind of pathetic too, that our political culture has come to this.
Is this glaringly obvious to anyone else out there? How castrated is our media that they don't skywrite this?