The Amazing, Relentless Dishonesty of the Republican Party
An excellent article by Brian Beutler about The GOP’s Grotesque Festival of Lies.
The night continued like this. Ben Carson denied his involvement with a nutritional supplement scam company that has been well substantiated. When a moderator pointed out that the $1.1 trillion hole in his tax plan would require cutting government by about 40 percent, he said, “that’s not true.”
At one point, a moderator apologized to Donald Trump for misquoting him, because he insisted, “I never said that,” with persuasive adamence. But he did say that. She’d quoted him correctly, to the word.
After the candidates abused the truth for 10 hours, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus attacked the moderators, and conservatives delighted in the knowledge that the base would chalk up the whole mess to media bias, damning GOP primary voters by assuming their oafishness.
One of the distinguishing factors of the Republican Party in the age of Obama has been their relentless, unapologetic, not-even-hidden dishonesty about so many issues: the economy, health care, abortion and Planned Parenthood, the list goes on and on. It’s sad and infuriating to see one of America’s two major political parties totally devoted to lies and trickery for political gain.