Friday, August 17, 2012

That's Above Your Clearance, Citizen

Greg Sargent flags down the Romney/Ryan campaign plan:  You don't need to know any specifics, but trust us.

Advisers say the campaign has no plans to pivot from its previous view that diving into details during a general-election race would be suicidal.

The Romney strategy is simple: Hammer away at Obama for proposing cuts to Medicare and promise, in vague, aspirational ways, to protect the program for future retirees — but don’t get pulled into a public discussion of the most unpopular parts of the Ryan plan.

“The nature of running a presidential campaign is that you’re communicating direction to the American people,” a Romney adviser said. “Campaigns that are about specifics, particularly in today’s environment, get tripped up.”

Shut up and vote, peon, before your betters notice you and make an example of you.  If you were supposed to know the Romney/Ryan GOP plan, they would have told you.

Oh wait, they did.

National media attention has focused on Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) drastic restructuring of the Medicare program, detailing the Vice Presidential candidate’s efforts to transform the current benefit guarantee into a “premium support” program for future enrollees.

But Romney/Ryan’s most devastating changes would impact programs that serve society’s most vulnerable citizens. Americans who rely on Medicaid, food stamps and Pell grants won’t be afforded the luxury of retaining their existing benefits, should Romney and Ryan implement their plans; these programs would experience immediate reductions if the Ryan budget becomes law.

But trust us, the budget we passed making these cuts two years running won't really be the budget we pass...if you got rid of the Kenyan, that is.  Know what I mean, nudge nudge wink wink?

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