| Team Obama Steps Up Attack On Romney's Character |
| Oct-08-2012 |
| Keywords: obama, romney, liar |
Perhaps still feeling the beating their candidate took during Wednesday night's historic debate defeat, the Obama campaign is resorting to calling Mitt Romney a liar.
This new tactic is generating a lot of conversation and ridicule about how the president is likely to come off with voters.
Michael Goodwin, a Fox News Contributor wrote, "Obama's furious response after the debate, that Romney's new tax details somehow make him a liar, is crude and reinforces the image of Obama as unpresidential. The charge is also not likely to succeed. The longer the president sticks with it, the better Romney will look to independents."
David Cohen of The Daily Caller also offered some explanation as to why Obama, considered by some as a great orator, is resorting to such 3rd grade tactics.
Cohen wrote, "Why is Team Obama pushing this "Romney is a liar" narrative with such desperation? The most obvious reason: they need to stop the bleeding from Obama's dismal performance in the first presidential debate. "Romney is a liar" is thus the latest in a long line of excuses that Obama supporters have thrown against the wall to explain the GOP nominee's dominating performance."
Cohen also traced the president's new tactics to the president's roots as a community organizer.
"It's a tactic straight out of the playbook of Saul Alinsky, the radical father of community organizing who has been Obama's guiding light. Rule 5 of Alinsky's seminal work, Rules for Radicals, instructs leftists to ridicule their political opponents: "'Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.' There is no defense. It's irrational. It's infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions." And then there's Rule 12: "'Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.' Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions."
This explains why leftists engage in incessant name-calling and personal attacks, even though such attacks are, in Alinsky's own words, "irrational." "Liar" is the new "racist," an all-purpose epithet that, at least in the mind of the leftist, trumps any logical argument. (Not that "racist" has been retired.) Calling Romney a liar is a classic radical attack, both irrational and personal."
At the center of these latest attacks are Romney's repeated denials that his tax proposal will raise taxes on the middle class, while giving the rich a $5 trillion tax cut over ten years. That's the line the president repeated numerous times during the Wednesday night debate, citing Princeton economist Harvey Rosen.
But even that has backfired on the president after Rosen today took issue with Team Obama's interpretation of his study on Romney's tax plan.
Rosen in an email to The Weekly Standard said that the president's campaign is misrepresenting his conclusions.
"The main conclusion of my study is that under plausible assumptions, a proposal along the lines suggested by Governor Romney can both be revenue neutral and keep the net tax burden on taxpayers with incomes above $200,000 about the same. That is, an increase in the tax burden on lower and middle income individuals is not required in order to make the overall plan revenue neutral."
Who is lying? You be the judge. |
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