Professor DeLong asks:
Does this mean that the Ryan-Romney campaign has finally decided that it needs to dial back its most blatant lies?
No, considering that the blatant "apology tour" lie reared its ugly head near the end of the speech, as well as the blatant "enemy of Israel" and "appeaser of Putin" lies. But I digress.
Most of last night's speech---the first half, anyway, with all its insincere homilies about having wanted Obama to succeed, but doggone it, he let us down---was for the undecideds, and to allow the speaker to cast himself in more statesmanlike terms. The welfare chiselers and the young bucks with T-bones are to be held in reserve, as they have been all along, for that time in the future when the next set of polling numbers suggests some slippage in the base, at which point it will be the running mate's chore, as it always is post-convention, to deliver the red meat to the faithful. But I think we can be assured that with Junior Galt on the ticket, we will be hearing many discourses on the Unbound Wretchedness of the Undeserving Poor (many of whom coincidentally happen to be members of the Negro persuasion) throughout the remainder of the campaign. Naturally, would love to be proved wrong, but doubt it'll happen.
---Vitelius
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