Comments on: GOP CONVENTION: DAY 2

By: Beth Stanton

Beth Stanton — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:56:21 +0000

Thank you, DJ, for the somewhat positive review of Paul Ryan's speech last night. It was indeed a home run.

By: Truthiz

Truthiz — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 15:36:06 +0000

More food for thought…."Paul Ryan is a talented, well-intentioned man who has been groomed by, and cultivated in the eco-system of, Washington’s conservative intelligentsia. His speech, for all its many fine qualities, is an emblem of the superficial attractiveness and substantive bankruptcy of this intelligentsia."Galupo at TAC: "The Boy in the Bubble"http://www.theamericanconservative.com/paul-ryan-…"The Daily beast Democrats have to raise their game. They’ve never had to encounter this kind of buttery demagoguery before. Their campaign is going to have to be almost as much against Ryan as against Romney. (Does anyone think Romney’s speech is going to be more effective to the intended audience? I’d be awfully surprised if it is.) They have to rebut his lies, and they have to do it without sounding bitter or afraid or superior or haughty. That’s not easy to do. But it’s the challenge of this campaign. If they can’t win the Ryan war, they’re done."Tomasky at TDB: "Paul Ryan’s Convention Speech and His Web of Lies"http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/30/michael-tomasky-on-paul-ryan-s-convention-speech-and-his-web-of-lies.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29" rel="nofollow"> http://;http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/30/michael-tomasky-on-paul-ryan-s-convention-speech-and-his-web-of-lies.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29;http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/30/michael-tomasky-on-paul-ryan-s-convention-speech-and-his-web-of-lies.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29
H/T: A. Sullivan"I noted most of these lies last night. But there weren't just lies, there was a total abdication of personal responsibility in an attack on president Obma's alleged lack of responsibility."The Dish: "The Lies And Lies And Lies Of Paul Ryan"http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/08/the-lies-of-paul-ryan.html" rel="nofollow"> http://;http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/08/the-lies-of-paul-ryan.html” target=”_blank”>;http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/08/the-lies-of-paul-ryan.html

By: Truthiz

Truthiz — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:03:09 +0000

Did a quick drive-by of socio-political blogs to get a consensus take on the speeches last night.In short: DJ's entire breakdown is on point.And added to that consensus pont of view is THIS: NYMag: "Paul Ryan Bets on the Ignorance of America"Paul Ryan has a reputation as a nerdy budget wonk, but tonight in his RNC speech, he transformed into an attack dog. Running the gamut on the many, varied transgressions of President Obama — including the stimulus, the jobs crisis, ObamaCare, the debt, Medicare, and, obviously, "You didn't built that" — Ryan had the crowd laughing, booing, and frequently showering him with piercingly loud standing ovations thanks to a slew of pitch-perfect applause lines. While this is just a hunch, we expect that his focus on Obama's inability to adequately revive the economy probably hit home with a lot of moderate voters. In short, it was, without a doubt, the best, most effective speech of the convention.It was also appallingly disingenuous and shamelessly hypocritical.Most of the millions of people who watched the speech on television tonight do not read fact-checks or obsessively consume news fifteen hours a day, and will never know how much Ryan's case against Obama relied on lies and deception. Ryan's pants are on fire, but all America saw was a barn-burner. […]Read: http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/08/paul-ryan-rnc-speech-lies-fact-check.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nymag%2Fintel+%28Daily+Intelligencer+-+New+York+Magazine%29" rel="nofollow"> http://;http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/08/paul-ryan-rnc-speech-lies-fact-check.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nymag%2Fintel+%28Daily+Intelligencer+-+New+York+Magazine%29” target=”_blank”>;http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/08/paul-ryan-rnc-speech-lies-fact-check.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nymag%2Fintel+%28Daily+Intelligencer+-+New+York+Magazine%29