Truth doesn’t matter for GOP candidates

President Obama was born in the United States. Evolution is a fact. Climate change is a fact.

There are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and never were.

The “Great Recession” began under the Bush administration. When President Obama took over, we were losing 750,000 jobs a month.

The “stimulus” created/saved 3 million jobs. More than were created in eight years of the Bush administration.

“Trickle down economics” (cutting taxes on the wealthy combined with deregulation) doesn't work.

All of these statements have been proven beyond any doubt by scientific or historical evidence and are easily verified. I realize that to those of us in the reality-based community they are obvious. But amazingly, among the Republicans running for office, many of these facts are argued or even flat out denied.

The “main stream” media feeds on this because they know controversy sells. When a politician screams out lies about the president's birthplace, or denies the existence of evolution, is he or she ever asked for evidence to back up these claims? No. They can make any outrageous claim they want.

If it is proven they lied, it is quickly forgotten and it is on to the next lie. Besides, if the truth mattered or people voted in their own self-interest, the GOP would never win another election and where is the fun in that?

Torben Platt

Solon