Romney running mate's speech 'deceiving' – Fox News
Mitt Romney's presidential campaign hit an unexpected speed-bump this morning: pointed criticism from Fox News – the Murdoch-owned conservative broadcaster that is usually squarely in the Republican camp.
In an opinion piece, Fox News' contributor Sally Kohn says Mitt Romney's running mate Paul Ryan was "deceiving" in his speech to the party's convention in Tampa, Florida.
"To anyone watching Ryan’s speech who hasn’t been paying much attention to the ins and outs and accusations of the campaign, I suspect Ryan came across as a smart, passionate and all-around nice guy — the sort of guy you can imagine having a friendly chat with while watching your kids play soccer together," Ms Ryan wrote.
"On the other hand, to anyone paying the slightest bit of attention to facts, Ryan’s speech was an apparent attempt to set the world record for the greatest number of blatant lies and misrepresentations slipped into a single political speech."
Ms Kohn went on to claim Mr Ryan – who will be vice-president if Mr Romney wins in November – had made misleading statements on issues including the US's credit downgrade, Medicare and a GM plant shutdown, among others.
A RealClearpolitics.com poll of polls shows the race remains tight, with Obama just 1.1% ahead of Romney in Nationwide support.
President Barack Obama has the Democrat's usual West and East Coast backing, while Mr Romney is strong in most of the South.
However, Mr Obama has the edge in many of the toss-up states, including Ohio and Florida.
If he maintains his narrow lead in those marginal states and others, it will lead to a large Electoral College victory – currently projected at 332 to 206.
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If mitt and his running mate are clueless as to what needs to be said at these republican confences then they both need to forget about running for office .. Retards
wow...how can retards ever compete with an intelligent comment like that?!
Obama is doing pretty good slowing down the recession and trying to build economy but I'm sure it has been a shity task .. If anyone is watching the minerals that are in these meteors and how to mine them it will
Be another metal industry boom creating jobs and more technology
Rupert Murdoch is essentially a populist demagogue. Ryan is one of the most promising political contenders, since Reagan. Ryan see's the essence of reducing government expenditure and creating a sustainable government is that the growth of government expenditure on health and the social sector has to be reversed and reduced. The key to this is to massively reduced employment in the health sector and social services. Reaganism failed in part because, the key insight of Ronnie his key 1964 era speeches that the multiplying army of social workers, public health workers etc, was a cancer that fed on itself and deeply against the interests of the public or public health, let alone freedom.
Fox News is in the middle of the road, not left or right. They appear right because ALL the others are so far to the left.
If Obama wins another term, particularly with his fiscal policy then the states is really in trouble. There is no attention being paid to their crippling debt or budget deficit.
Fox News middle of the road? After 11 years of living in the US and 10 further years reading about its politics, I have never seen such an outrageous piece of political nonsense since the Koch Brothers founded the Tea Party movement!
Fox is bible thumping happy clapping right. CNBC is Liberal and CNN middle of the road. No major media outlets in the US are leftist.
To Robert Miles.
What a load of Bollocks and difficult to understand at that.
To Nosy Mouse
What a load of bollocks - you make a negative comment without explanation - if you find the simple facts that he stated as hard to understand, I'm struggling ro understand how you manage to operate a computer - is someone typing for you ?
Read the Rolling Stone article about Romney - enough said.
If he wins, the world will get both Europe and the US in austerity cost cutting. No one wins from that.
We need a little inflation!!
Lots of noise from media people who apparently didn't read, hear, or understand what he said about Obama, and what Paul Ryan specifically said in his speech. See for some clarification: http://hotair.com/archives/2012/08/30/fact-checking-the-factcheckers-on-ryans-speech/