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Clean Up Your Act - One Man's Opinion

A response to a recent Super PAC attack ad

Enough is enough! I’m sick and tired of hearing this muckraking. It makes me want to turn off the television and take a shower! If this is what you were trying to achieve, you have succeeded admirably, Mr. Politician!

I think that there is an appropriate title for the most recent Democratic Super PAC Mitt Romney attack: "Mudslinging for Dummies.” I don’t know about you, but it insults my intelligence when deliberate distortions are fed to a gullible electorate as gospel facts.

I refer to the most recent political attack ad which implies that Romney’s actions were directly responsible for a displaced worker’s wife dying of cancer because she had no insurance to obtain treatment until it was too late because Bane Capital closed her husband’s plant … and Romney didn’t care.

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Anyone with even a modicum of computer sense, or common sense, for that matter, can see through this insipid smoke screen and quickly ascertain the truth on the Internet with minimal effort. These are the facts: Romney left Bane to become involved in the Salt Lake Olympics long before the alleged incident.

After the worker’s company was closed, his wife still had her own insurance because she was still working for another company, Saver’s Thrift. She lost her insurance, not due to Romney closing the plant that employed her husband, but, rather due to injury, in either 2002 or 2003.

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There’s “something rotten in Denmark” or Washington, that is, when deliberate distortions and misrepresentations are presented as irrefutable fact and appear to be the substance of the campaign to retain the highest office in the land.

Up to this point, as an independent, I have been open to the platforms and rhetoric of both parties; I am beginning to have serious doubts when blatant character assassination supplants addressing substantive issues and proposed solutions.

What about the economy? I lost my job, a house and a car. Others have been even less fortunate. What about the war and the continuous procession of fallen and maimed heroes, returning home to a grateful nation? When does it end?

What about the escalating price of gas or the crop failures from widespread drought and their impact on the price of food? What about Social Security, Medicare or healthcare in general? What about the massive national debt that has mortgaged our childrens’ future for generations yet unborn. What are you going to do about it?

These are some real issues that are crying out for genuine solutions, not “lip service!” They are only a small sample of America’s many needs that must be addressed – there are so many more - instead of the current juvenile name calling and finger pointing that is masquerading as “campaigning.” “Playground politics” have no place in a national election.

Unless this current negative trend is replaced by insightful, responsible action, I intend to express my displeasure at the ballot box and I hope you will too. It is your right and responsibility as a citizen in this land of freedom. 

I don’t think that I’m wrong, but, then again, this is just one man’s opinion. What do you think? 

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