The political conventions are over and one reality is very apparent, truth in politics is a scarce commodity. There are no good guys and bad guys when it comes to the truth, both political parties are liars, willing to say or not to say everything and anything in order to win an election. Machiavelli in his book, “the Prince”, extolled the supposed virtue of the philosophy that “ the ends justify the means”. With the end of political power in mind, Democrats and Republicans are performing as royalty, falsely claiming that they know what is best for the people. Therefore, it is O.K. to be a liar and that is the state of our politics.
Both parties assume that we the voters are easily beguiled by the lie. The Democrats are the most obvious distorters of the truth. Almost every day their talking points include at least one such lie. The latest is the chairman of the DNC, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, accusing the Republicans, particularly conservative evangelicals, of unfaithfulness to the state of Israel and the Jewish cause. She falsely quoted an Israeli ambassador when speaking at a training session for Florida Democratic election workers. Her Machiavellian motives are obvious. This lie follows a long list of lies from Democratic mouthpieces intended to degrade Republicans and Mitt Romney. Our royal President is slightly more camouflaged when speaking a lie. His way is to use words like “free enterprise” in his acceptance speech, assuming that the listener will not question whether his policies are friendly to such an environment. This slight of hand was not utilized in his presidential campaign of 08, when he portrayed himself as the centrist Democratic candidate.
One Presidential critique of the Republicans has yet to be explained by Mitt Romney. Why would America want to return to the policies of the Republican Bush years since those policies gave us such a devastating economic catastrophe? The Republican silence at this point is a lie. A lie that must be addressed rationally if Mitt Romney hopes to win election. Every political observer is aghast at the closeness of the election as forecast by the polls, considering the dismal economic numbers. The question for the voter is whom shall we trust, a dismal looking economic future with the Democrats or more Republican led criminal economic catastrophes. It is as if the polls are screaming, how can we trust the Party that won’t come to terms with it’s own past?
At this point, only Mitt Romney can do a meaningful apology to the American voter for past Republican failures, failures that have to be acknowledged and put into truthful context. He must explain the causes of the catastrophe and name all the responsible parties, both Democrats and Republicans. Why is it that no one has been prosecuted and sent to jail? Does anyone really care that the American worker has had to suffer such economic turmoil? The extremes of both parties have staked out there positions but to influence the middle America voter and win the election, we want to hear the truth from Mitt.
G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca
