Tonight, 3/13/2014, Chris Matthews challenged democrats to come out swinging and use a strategy of warning people how much worse things will be if they vote Republican in order to best manipulate the public into voting Democratic.
It’s been a winning strategy, but is a much weakened strategy that Mr. Matthews fails to recognize because of his own failure to honestly consider how much people don’t approve of Obama because he lied.
The President’s lie was not a single stray lie such as those you can find on fact-check sites concerning misquoting statistics, or telling half a story, but the bold-faced lies of Obamacare, one of the main series of promises (and lies) that propelled the President into office both times and that disappointingly has proven false in any number of significant ways. The continued lies for most citizens are laughable, except that they indicate how brutally dishonest the Democrats are willing and able to be in order to get votes.
There it is. It’s not that people aren’t terrified by some of the “spokespeople” for Republicans including Ted Cruz who advocates a hard and uncompromising line of philosophies that most Americans have rejected, it’s the fact that no matter what Democrats say, no thinking person can help but consider that it might all be lies after the bold-faced marketing campaign that sold us on Obamacare that has been proven untrue in significant ways.
We voters have a tough job. The issue isn’t about who comes out as more aggressive, as Mr. Matthews misjudges, it’s the simple issue that when it comes to Democrats we the voters are reasonably afraid that they’re lying and that when it comes to Republicans we the voters are reasonably afraid that they’re telling the truth.
