WASHINGTON — The Republican National Convention is drawing to a close with some factually slippery statements coming from the stage.
Most prominently, on the eve of presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s speech closing the convention Thursday night, running mate Paul Ryan ignored conspicuous parts of his own record on budget cuts, the stimulus and Medicare in his haste to accuse President Barack Obama of taking the economy off the rails.
A closer look at some of Ryan’s remarks Wednesday at the GOP convention in Tampa, Fla.:
