Lies, Contradiction, and the Danger of Pornography in Schools

If the first night of the Republican Convention was almost entirely about the past, last night's coming out party for Sarah Palin was about incoherence and cognitive dissonance. It was an example of just how logically inconsistent Republican messaging has become and just how crazy some Republican talking points are. When you just grab random bits of propaganda and throw them at the wall, you wind up with a hopeless mishmash of fear, hatred, and self-contradiction.

Mitt Romney started the night off with a speech blaming every problem America faces on liberals. He even accused the Supreme Court of liberalism -- a laughable charge after decades of Republican court stacking. "Listening to Mitt Romney address the Republican National Convention, you'd hardly know that Republicans have held the White House 28 of the last 40 years, nominated seven of the nine Supreme Court justices and held Congress for 12 of the last 14 years," writes Carl Leubsdorf for the Dallas Morning News. That was the gist of Mittens' speech; that liberals have been in charge in Washington for years and years and years and Republicans represent change. It was insane.

And when he wasn't living in opposite world, he was trying to get people to worry about problems that don't exist. "Opportunity rises when children are raised in homes and schools that are free from pornography, promiscuity and drugs," Mitt said, "in homes that are blessed with family values and the presence of a father and a mother."

Pornography in schools? This is a problem? Where?...

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