FIRST FAKE TWITTER FOLLOWERS, NOW THIS. YOU KNOW, I’M BEGINNING TO THINK IT’S FAKERY ALL THE WAY DOWN: Fake Republican Women For Obama.

It happens all the time in talk radio: a caller will say that he is a lifelong Republican, and will recall fondly how he voted for Ronald Reagan. Then he says that today’s Republicans have gone too far, and for the first time ever he is voting for a Democrat! These callers are nearly always lying. If you look them up, you likely will find that they are Democratic Party precinct chairmen.

The Obama campaign is trying to perpetrate the same deception. It has just released a video called Republican Women For Obama, which features four or five women who claim to be Republicans, or to have been Republicans until recently. But, of course, they are appalled by Mitt Romney–it is hard to say why, apart from a couple of discreet references to abortion, but did they really just now figure out that the Republican Party is pro-life? The ad is surprisingly ineffective, but it is also dishonest.

That makes sense. If 2008 was “Hope and change,” then the hallmark of 2012 is “Surprisingly ineffective, but dishonest.”

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