Paul Ryan and the Irrelevance of Truth

I know the Republican presidential nominee spoke last night; however,  I'll be stuck in Ryan's speech if I don't speak out about it.   I see that even Fox News contributor Sally Kohn has called it what it was, and it's a rare event when a Fox contributor calls out any Republican for misrepresentation of the truth!  Her piece is worth checking out. http://www.foxnews.com/.

Now to what I want to share:  When Paul Ryan took the microphone at the Lakewood Airport Friday morning, I hoped he might come clean about some of the inaccuracies in his Convention speech.  (Help me out here:  If we know a statement is inaccurate, and we say it as if it’s factual, isn’t that a lie?)  So far no corrections.  I know, I know.  Their campaign announced a few days ago that they won’t be influenced by fact checkers; Ryan’s speech showed they meant it!

Ryan condemned the President for not accepting the Simpson-Bowles Commission’s recommendations.  Truth is, Ryan was ON that panel himself and voted AGAINST the recommendations!  No way to square that.   He also blamed the President for the Country’s lowered credit rating, even though the rating agencies themselves pointed to squabbling Republicans in Congress as the ones responsible for the downgrade.

Although there were other inaccuracies, specifics aren’t coming back to me at the moment.  However, we do know, and Paul Ryan knows, the GM plant in his Wisconsin hometown closed while President Bush was in the White House and not on President Obama's watch as he said at the Convention and on other occasions. Mr. Ryan had to know the  things I mentioned above were absolutely untrue; yet he went on to mislead voters who, unlike me, are not political junkies who keep tabs on this kind of thing; some of them probably took his words as truth.  After all, he's a clean-cut young man who espouses "values."  Voters, you might want to do your own fact-checking or plug in to non-partisan groups who check both campaigns for accuracy.  For all the “values” talk, apparently Mr. Ryan doesn’t value truth-telling.