Mitt Romney delivered a good acceptance speech that will help him in the polls. But it won’t fundamentally change the contours of his campaign, which now depends on compensating for his deficits with women and Hispanics by maximizing the white working-class male vote.This means emitting a series of “dog whistles” — carefully coded messages heard only by anxious white voters inclined to think President Barack Obama is too easy on minorities.Neither Romney nor his running mate, Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, went heavy on dog whistles in their speeches this week. The Republican National Convention was devoted to softening Romney’s image and too much racial subtext would have gone over badly.But both men did assert that Obama was raiding Medicare topay for Obamacare, a coded way of telling senior citizens that the president was taking their benefits and giving them to poor (read black) uninsured people.This is entirely untrue. Obama’s plan doesn’t cut any basic Medicare benefits and, in fact, reduces prescription-drug costs for senior citizens.
IMO the right's insipid and relentless beating of a drum with a hole in it has no resonance with those they are trying now in the 11th hour to convince "who's your buddy"?
but their radical words get in the way, and the would be emperor's new clothes have holes in them, big gaping holes.
Welfare Myth
Meanwhile, a welfare dog whistle continues to account for half of Romney’s paid advertising against Obama. A Romney ad in heavy rotation says that under a recent welfare-policy change “they just send you your welfare check.” That’s false, but it successfully conjures unemployed people sitting on the couch mooching off the middle class.
has it occurred to anyone that if they can code words that insight hate and misleading propaganda and influence people to be complicit in the stripping of other American's rights they claim they while wrapped in the flag are fighting for, selfishly and blindly not even for themselves, they are carrying the water for corporations who don't even have any interest in what's good for them.
what does it say about those who oppose do they deserve to call themselves American? let alone "Real American's" none of their names are like Cochise, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, they claim the mantel but they admit this is a country of immigrants some willing others forcibly, answer not a lot.
