Ryan doesn't own the lie machine. He shares it with Mitt Romney.
That gas price lie was so obvious that, once again, it's obvious that when Mitt lies, he knows he lying and doesn't give a damn.
Gas prices have not doubled. "Exactly four years ago," according to Washington Post's Glenn Kessler's fact check, "the price was $3.67 — not much different than today’s price of $3.72." By the time Obama came into office, "the collapse of Lehman Brothers [had] sparked the crisis," and the whole economy dropped into a pit and gas prices also sank before Obama was inaugurated.
Obviously, for someone with Mitt Romney's wealth, it's easier to ignore the recession. And so he did and does. His income was secure; Mr. and Mrs. Middle Class's income dropped because the rest of us were severely hit by recession. And that, says Romney, is Obama's fault. Huh?
And then there's the matter of taxes and defense cuts.
“Unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class.”Romney appears to be referring to mandates in the health care law, but overall Obama has cut taxes broadly for the middle class. He has extended Bush tax cuts, included a “Making Work Pay” credit in the stimulus bill and reduced payroll taxes by two percentage points in the past two years.
Obama has called for raising taxes on people making more than $250,000 a year. ...WaPo
“His trillion dollar cuts to our military will eliminate hundreds of thousands of jobs, and also put our security at greater risk.”
Romney here attributes planned cuts to the military entirely to Obama, but they actually are the result of a 2011 budget deal between Obama and congressional Republicans, which avoided a default on the national debt. ...WaPo
The next one is more like wishful thinking based, as the Post points out, not on hard numbers but on "policy assertions." "Policy assertions" are a more convincing way of saying "hopey changey."
“And unlike the president, I have a plan to create 12 million new jobs.”
This sounds like a pretty bold statement, especially considering that only two presidents — Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton — created more than 12 million jobs. Romney, in fact, says he can reach this same goal, in just four years, though the policy paper issued by his campaign contains few details. It is mostly a collection of policy assertions, such as such as reducing debt, overhauling the tax code, fostering free trade and so forth. ...WaPo
Hopey changey thinking? Sure. Romney indulges in it all the time.
