In a June 23 Newsmax column, Lowell Ponte purported to describe the appeal to Democrats of the anti-McCain “Baby Alex” TV ad — that Democrats are idiots:
But the political left has an advantage here. The majority of those who vote for Democrats come from that half of our population that has an IQ of 100 or lower.
These sheep neither notice nor care about the irrationality and cynically manipulative nature of this dishonest all-feelings, no-brain ad. It’s no accident that the actress performing this ad spoke her lines like a dimwit, all the better to bamboozle its target audience.
Ponte, you may remember, still thinks Barack Obama attended a madrassa, so he has little room to complain about others being “cynically manipulative” or having a deficit of functioning brain cells.
Ponte then tells a lie in the form of a proposed response ad:
“Hi, Barack Obama. This is Alex. He’s my first. But if you expect him to pay off the $4 trillion in tax increases and extreme government spending you advocate — and to spend most of his working life paying an 83 percent tax rate to fund your socialist schemes — you can’t have him.”
Ponte offers no evidence that Obama wants to raise tax rates to 83 percent — perhaps because there isn’t any. And we don’t know where Ponte got his claim that Obama is planning “$4 trillion in tax increases”; in fact, the only reference to that number we’ve seen in relation to the federal budget is that $4 trillion is the size of the budget hole that will exist if the Bush tax cuts are allowed to stand past 2010 and if the alternative minimum tax is repealed — both of which are not only not “socialist schemes” but favored by conservatives like Ponte.