Republicans debuted a new ad Thursday in which a frustrated former Obama supporter expresses her disappointment with the president. The only problem: The woman in the video is actually an RNC staffer.
The new ad features Republican National Committee Director of Hispanic Outreach Bettina Inclan, who in the ad purports to be an average woman voter who supported Obama in 2008. She describes her disillusionment with the president in the ad as a romantic relationship gone awry.
Inclan began her current RNC post in January 2012, and has worked in Republican politics since well before Obama’s 2008 election. She did Hispanic outreach for Rick Scott’s 2010 Florida gubernatorial race worked on Capitol Hill for Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL), Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI) and as national executive director of the Republican National Hispanic Assembly.http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/rnc-staffer-plays-obama-supporter-in-gop-ad.php?ref=fpa
They couldn't find an authentic "frustrated former Obama supporter" so they simply hired one of their party hack staffers to make-believe portray one.
It fits the, by now well known, pattern though. The GOP has decided that the American people are not deserving of honesty and rational, adult discourse. They are so desperate (or perhaps simply morally and intellectually bankrupt) at this point, that lying and deception, of the type seen in this ad, have become second nature to them. It is an open acknowledgement that they are incapable of competing in the marketplace of ideas and vision and therefore they find it necessary to utilize deception and character smears (just as they attempted in 2008) to appeal to the dumbest and the most gullible Americans.
Let's hope they fail in their dishonest endeavor once again.
----TFG
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