Cindy Simpson:
President Obama “giftwrapped” the truth Monday, when he told Al Sharpton that Democratic candidates are lying when they distance themselves from him. The Washington Post summed it up:
Obama’s comments not only “suggested the election was indeed something of a referendum on him…but that Democratic candidates are actually on-board with him — something most of them have made pains to argue is not the case. Obama’s comments are the kind of thing Democrats might privately say to assure donors and the party base, but wouldn’t really say in public.”
In other words, straight from the mouth of one liar to another: “Do what you need to do to win.”
Habitual lying — a proclivity of Obama extensively documented by American Thinker contributor Jack Cashill in his new book, “You Lie!” — is a disorder that has infected the entire Obama administration, as scandal after scandal festers in the “culture of deception” that pervades the White House.
It’s the culture created, as Andrew McCarthy observed in his column on the Obama administration’s handling of the Ebola outbreak, when “incompetence meets mendacity.” The vastness of this deceptive culture reaches beyond the Obama administration into the entire Democratic Party, on full display in midterm campaigning across the country.
Take the example of candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes, Senator Mitch McConnell’s opponent on the Kentucky ballot. After listing multiple examples of Grimes’s lies, Breitbart’s Michael Leahy described her campaign operation as a “culture of deception.”
Grimes has certainly produced plenty of slick commercials in which she promises she is “not Barack Obama.” Running as another “Great Democrat Rural Hope,” she tells voters she disagrees with Obama on “guns, coal, and the EPA” — but intrepid undercover reporter James O’Keefe’s hidden camera documented how perfectly her campaign follows Obama’s deceptive playbook.
Caught on tape, several staffers admitted that Grimes is lying about her support of coal, calling it all a “lying game.” As one prominent campaign donor put it to another of O’Keefe’s cameras, “She’s gonna f*** [the coal industry] as soon as she’s elected. She can’t say it straight up. She’s going to do what she has to do to get elected and then she’s gonna f*** ‘em.”
Sound familiar?
Yes, Americans, you can keep your health insurance and your doctor.
Yes, Kentuckians, you can keep your coal and your guns.
And yes — Democrats think that the voters who cling to those lies are stupid.
Democratic candidates also count on the fact that their supporters who do recognize the lies and deceptive strategies are as unprincipled as the candidates themselves. As McCarthy further observed, it’s as if “the fibs told to escape the latest jam are more admired for craftiness than condemned as breaches of trust.”
For many years the democratic slogans has been, “We only need to fool enough people long enough to get elected.” It wouldn’t surprise me if they have a secret school that teaches how to lie without sounding like they are.
This isn’t news to anyone who has been listening to democrats run for office since the 1960s.
Remember when dem talking heads claimed that democrats would be running on the success of obamacare?
The sheer hypocrisy of a democrat candidate is beyond description. Truth never matters to leftists, because all that matters is gaining and keeping political power to cram their dystopian collectivist agenda down the nation’s throat. Laws are only useful as tools to bludgeon their opponents.
The fact that they know they have to lie to get elected should, if they had any honest principles, get them to realize their ideology is wrong.
Unfortunately, Republicans have lied to the TEA Party and pretended to be “conservatives” to get elected only to turn “establishment” once they get to Washington.