Bob Shrum reviews a long series of Mitt Romney lies, in a blistering piece in The Daily Beast. From his first paragraph, to his last two, Shrum skewers Romney's "lyingest campaign ever" in a quick, big-picture view, that is well worth a read.
First, Paul Ryan placed Medicare on the chopping block. And amid the aftershocks of a bold and bad decision to put Ryan on his ticket, Mitt Romney this week also put Medicare on the lying block. Michael Tomasky is on target when he tartly observes that Romney is waging the “lyingest campaign ever”—and utterly demolishes the most “blatant” lie of all, that the president has gutted welfare reform. The third Romney ad leveling this charge brazenly cites a newspaper that was condemning the accusation. ...
The list could go on and on. One Republican operative, a genuine conservative who thinks Romney isn’t genuine at all, renders his verdict: “He doesn’t believe in anything but his own ambition.” Maybe that’s why Romney will say anything. But why, then, should we believe anything he says?
I don’t think the country will buy this phony campaign from a patently phony candidate. He’s struggling despite the economic headwinds fanned by his own party’s obstructionism in Congress. So come this November, just maybe a re-elected Joe Biden will say, fairly and accurately, that our politics has been unshackled from Romney’s chain of lies.
I'm going to resist the temptation to summarize Bob Shrum's narrative to bolster our talking points, because he articulates this story so much better than I could. So, let me just link you to this piece, where you can get it straight from the horses mouth. Readers are welcome to abstract out bullet points for a list of Romney lies, or add others. And, for Paul Ryan, or other Republican candidates, as well.
2:09 PM PT: This cartoon is evocative enough, I want to post it larger so you can read it.
2:39 PM PT: JTinDC suggests how great it would be if our MSNBC crew picked up Shrum and Tomasky for a special segment on Romney's Two-Face Lying
This is good stuff. Would be nice if Chris, Ed. (3+ / 0-)
Rachel, and Lawrence would have both Shrum and Tomasky on to discuss "the lyingest campaign ever".
Ds see human suffering and wonder what they can do to relieve it. Rs see human suffering and wonder how they can profit from it.
by JTinDC on Wed Aug 22, 2012 at 02:08:44 PM PDT
To which I reply
Yes, this is an even more important meme than (3+ / 0-)
the income tax thing, which some folks think "hey, great, I wish I could afford accountants to avoid paying taxes. Romney even bragged at one point, that he would be incompetent to be president if he paid more taxes than he absolutely had to."
To you, and me, the tax issues goes a whole lot beyond, how much he paid, and brings up transparency in a democracy, his evasiveness, etc, but for too many folks, they don't get the subtleties.
But, the two face lier, who cares for nothing but his own ambition, and will lie and say and do anything to be president, we see the oily con man for who he really is -- not of presidential character.
But, there is still tomorrow. I'll bet you $10,000 dollars to donuts we will be hearing more on this them really soon.
P-)
2:45 PM PT: Please donate to our President's campaign fund so our side can respond to these lying lies and the liars who tell them.
http://www.barackobama.com/