This article from TAP's Paul Waldman is so good I have to offer up two quotes.
First, about Romney:
Romney gives the sense that he plans out his breakfast with a Powerpoint presentation. ("Today's waffles will proactively impact forward-oriented goal actualization while incentivizing value-added synergisms. And there will be syrup.")
Second, about Rudy:
Rudy Giuliani has climbed aboard this express train to Stupidville, saying in a recent television ad, "I know that reducing taxes produces more revenues. Democrats don't know that, they don't believe that."
Fortunately for Rudy and the other Republican candidates, most news organizations are too cowardly to simply point out when they're not telling the truth. When the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz attempted an adwatch of the spot (and remember, the purpose of these things is supposed to be pointing out the ad's false claims), he wrote that the idea of tax cuts increasing revenue is "a matter of fierce dispute among economists." I suppose it is, in much the same way the idea that Adam and Eve galloped through the Garden of Eden on the backs of dinosaurs is a matter of fierce dispute among paleontologists.
Man I wish I could write like that.
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