Does Lying Pay?

Judging from the recent presidential election polls, if you’re a politician, it certainly does. Starting with the Democratic convention and all the TV ads, the Obama campaign has saturated the screen and media, not about Obama’s accomplishments (there aren’t many), but about portraying Mitt Romney as a rich man totally disconnected from the “working class”, and characterizing him as a felon, wife killer, tax evader, and part of the privileged class; all part of a larger strategy to divide this country on a class basis.


Romney has been vetted much more than Mr. Obama as a public figure, and has an impeccable track record of accomplishments both in business, politics, and charitable work. Yet this does not get much traction with Obama’s constituency, people who vote on race, love of handouts, are chronically unemployed, impressionable young people, unionized teachers and government employees, and uninformed voters who get news via the pop media. The educated element of his constituency are college professors raised by the flower children of the 60’s who hate America and capitalism, but love socialism and believe that government should control most aspects of our life.

In fact, the so-called War on Women was invented during a Republican primary debate when George Stephanopoulos asked Romney if he was against contraception. Of course, Romney had no idea what he was talking about since this was not a national political issue and Republicans never said they were. Everyone knows that contraception is readily available to all people and free for the needy through Planned Parenthood and, in fact, they even hand out condoms in high schools. What Republicans object to is taxpayer subsidy of abortion and forcing contraception on religious organizations against their conscience via Obamacare. This is a violation of the 1st Amendment granting all Americans freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition. There is no War on Women; it is an utter hoax. Women in America in the last decade, mostly under Bush, have enjoyed the greatest boom in their economic independence, professional employment, and higher paying jobs than ever before in the history of the planet.

Here are some other lies in Obama’s ads:

1. Romney wants to raise taxes on the middle class – Romney wants to cut taxes for everyone to stimulate investment and generate jobs.

2. Romney will cut taxes for the rich – yes, but offset these by the elimination of loopholes, credits, and deductions that cause abuse of the system.

3. Obamacare will cut the cost of Medicare – A lie; it will raise the cost of healthcare in general ($2 trillion in 10 yrs.) and will cut Medicare services by some $570 billion starting now.

4. Obama’s foreign policy has made us safe, Bin Laden is dead and GM is alive, – Lie, Bin Laden is dead all right, but that is not a foreign policy. Also, ask the parents of the late Ambassador to Libya if we are safer, and those millions burning our flag in 20 countries. Also, GM may be alive but has a $50 billion debt with no way to pay it off in the future. As a company, it is on life support, or Obama support.

The story goes on and on and this election will be a good measure of whether lying is an excellent election strategy.