Sounds like someone we know....
Lie. Liiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Lie. LIAR.
So, hey Mitt...this strategy of promising the moon and the stars all at NO COST TO THE TAXPAYER has been done before. And its a strategy that fails, every time. You keep trying to imply that the Romney/Ryan ticket is the ticket of "math". You keep saying that we can't "afford" four more years of Obama...well, Mr. Romney, Mr. Ryan, you haven't even explain the most BASIC features of your fiscal plan for America. All you have done has promised everyone everything they want. You tailor your message to your audience, and even the most cursory, surface-level glances at your plan for America reveals holes in it a 16 wheel tractor trailer could drive through.
And yet, you would have us believe that you, in all of your Republican-y glory, are THE DUDES that will solve all of our problems at absolute no cost to the tax payer (in fact, everybody's taxes get cut 20%).
Well guess what, your grand strategy to tell everyone what you think they want to hear has been done. In fact, it has been done in politics so many times before. President Franklin Roosevelt's challenger in 1936 did this, and the American people saw through the sham. FDR became one of our most popular, beloved, well respected President's not because he told people what they wanted to hear, but because they told people the TRUTH.
So ask yourself, Mr. Romney -- Do you have the capacity to tell the people of the United States the truth? Do you have the ability to lead this country not just in good times, but also in bad? Because THAT is the definition of a person who can be president. This is not a contest to see who can lie the most. This is an extended job interview, and Mr. Romney, Mr. Ryan, you may be riding high now, but think about it...do you have the courage, the guts to stand up and deliver the not so great news to the American people that not every constituency is get what they want under a theoretical Romney administration? Because, if your lie-a-thon in Denver is any indication, you are all hot air and bullshit Mitt, and absolutely no substance, courage, or resolve.
6:13 PM PT: This diary was originally posted at 1:17pm today, but I pulled it down and fleshed it out a little bit and reposted it.