All we have to do now
Is take these lies
And make them true somehow.
- George Michael, Freedom
If you’re one of the millions of Americans comfortable with (and blissfully unaware of) thinking and voting as Fox News Channel instructs you, you probably love Mitt Romney. Somehow able to without a trace of irony lie about being a man of integrity, Romney will claim that he never said President Obama made the economy worse…just after saying exactly that. Adept at making up facts and misrepresenting the truth as, if, and whenever he deems it necessary, Romney’s relationship with the truth is tenuous under the best of circumstances.
A candidate once described by Jon Huntsman as “a perfectly lubricated weather vane” would seem to have a poor political future in front of him. Romney’s front-runner status is a testament to the efficacy of large- nay, obscene- sums of money. Unlimited cash really can purchase unlimited free speech…and with it the presumptive nomination.
The millions upon millions of dollars spent on Romney’s behalf have managed to paper over the reality that he’s an accomplished and inveterate liar. Mitt Romney lies with the grace and ease of a man unable and/or unwilling to distinguish truth from lies. The truth is whatever serves his interests, lies anything that works against him. If he has to treat truth as a fungible commodity to win, then so be it.
This fall, America will get to meet a Republican who’s the living embodiment of the old canard:
How can you tell that X is lying? Are his lips moving?
Mitt Romney’s lips are moving at warp speed these days….
