# 9: What Hath God Wrought

Post # 9: What Hath God Wrought

I go away for half a month and all hell breaks loose:
(1) Paul Ryan became the GOP VP nominee, and almost immediately indicated that Rape is a method of conception (with no indication whether it was a "legitimate rape" or not, and certainly with no recognition of the emotional and physical toll that it takes on women and the rest of society);
(2) Texas is still alternating hail and drought, is on fire from the heat, and has locusts throughout much of the state.  Well, okay, they're only West Nile-carrying mosquitoes, but that's bad enough.
(3) Louisiana and the states all around it have been hit by Hurricane Isaac, whose outer edges provided enough rain and wind in southeastern Florida to cause the GOP to reschedule some of its convention events;
(3) the Missouri Senate candidate got an Akin-Breaky-Heart, and still needs the Wizard to give him a brain;
(4) Yesterday Ron Paul's delegates tried to outshout Mitt Rmoney's delegates;
(5) Some Texas delegates threatened to leave the convention, and were forced to accept a compromise on Romney-Rules that they opposed;
(6) Several Maine delegates did leave, because of the way their fellow/sister delegates from Texas were treated;
(7) And I missed Ann Romney's pro-husband speech (which several commentators indicated was actually...not bad), and I missed as well any rebroadcast of her comments weeks ago indicating that, in college, she and Mitt also had financial troubles, and even began discussing which stocks they might have to sell.

I kid you not. The Rmoneys are so out of touch with folks like thee and me that I wonder how he can have any support from the middle class.  Not to mention the white males.  Or the elderly.  That last is amazing.  The polls have shown that more elderly prospective voters prefer Rmoney's proposed handling of Medicare than they prefer Obama's.  And this view comes after Obamacare has already made more preventive procedures and insurance coverage available to all Americans.

The Republicans are attempting to lay all blame on Obama, but neglect to indicate the role they played in the too-slow-growing economy, the joblessness, the budget deficit (how DID it change from a Clinton surplus to a Dubya deficit anyway?), the price of oil, and probably the weather. Their role: to attempt to block all legislative progress that didn't extend the Bush tax cuts for the uber-wealthy; and to ignore the middle and lower economic classes.  They're also ignoring the facts, even while those facts are pointed out time and time again.

The Democrats have the logic on their side, but they are not explaining clearly enough--perhaps not slowly enough to some people--what they have accomplished, and why they have not been able to implement more of what they proposed. They need to play and replay Mitch McConnell's 2010 promise to make Obama a one-term president. They need to address perhaps only a very few issues at a time, and hammer those home so that the false information still being perpetrated by the GOP (despite the facts showing the unsoundness of such information) does not maintain its hold on apparently significant numbers of the voting public.

I had hoped to make this post a little more positive, and I will make subsequent posts so, but I was pretty much out of touch with daily events for more than two weeks, and was surprised at the ferocity of some of the events of the past half a month or so.

Let us see what the polls show for a Rmoney bump, to be expected after a "wildly successful" convention.  What's that you say?  It may not be a wildly successful convention?  Let's see also then what the Republican spin will be come late Thursday August 30.