I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It’s awful. If I’m on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I’m going, I’m liable to say I’m going to the opera. It’s terrible.
- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Chronicling Mitt’s Mendacity, Vol. XXXII: And Romney continues to lie…and lie…and lie some more. It’s like the truth doesn’t matter to him…because it doesn’t. The campaign has already stated that “We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers.” Welcome to the first post-truth Presidential campaign. It’s a campaign without a conscience…as if it’s being run by cyborgs, because Team Romney has no soul or integrity.
Following Akin Controversy, Romney Shifts Position On Abortion: One day, he opposes abortion under any circumstances with no exception, the next he says he’d allow it in cases of rape or incest. What does the man actually believe in outside of his own ambition?
So, Mitt, what do you really believe?: It seems clear that he believes whatever he needs to in order to win in November.
David Letterman presents ‘Ann and Mitt Romney Lies’: When your lies have grown so numerous and so large that late-night comedians are ridiculing you…you have a problem, Kimosabe.
Abandoning the pretense of caring about facts: Mitt Romney is no longer even bothering to pretend he cares about the truth. Instead, he’s decided to go with whatever lies and misinformation he thinks will get him votes.
Fact checking for thee, but not for me: The Romney campaign’s position is now that the Obama camp should pull its ads when fact checkers call them out as false — but that Romney and his advisers should feel no such constraint. This sounds ridiculous, but it really is the Romney campaign’s position, hypocrisy be damned.
The Internal Contradictions of Mitt Romney: Has there ever been a candidacy this cynical? Not by a long shot. Mitt Romney lies like he breathes- repeatedly and without being conscious of it.
The Romney campaign has, as is strikingly evident at the Tampa convention, broken new ground in its brazen and cynical disregard for the truth.
The audacity of mendacity. It’s lying as a campaign strategy.
How Romney Keeps Lying Through His Big White Teeth: “We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers.” Wow…is there anything more cynical than a campaign admitting that it cares nothing about the truth?
Lies, Damn Lies, and Mitt Romney: The Romney campaign no longer even holds truth out as an option. If a lie works, they’ll continue using it, even after it’s been exposed as a lie.
Romney’s lies about welfare reform part of new strategy of division: When the Big Lie is the best strategy you can muster, you’re a miserable excuse for a human being…and an even worse excuse for a Presidential candidate.
FACTS MATTER: The Ultimate Guide To Mitt Romney’s Convention Speech: The list of lies told by Mitt Romney is miles long…and continues growing. Yet the Mainstream Media continues to give his mendacity a free pass. Do you really think they’d let Barack Obama off so easily?
Mitt Romney, lying machine: His mis-characterization of Obama’s Affordable Care Act is just the latest in a long line of offenses “I’ve been directly involved in seven presidential campaigns, and I don’t recall a presidential candidate lying with such audacity, over and over again. Why does he do it, and how can he get away with it?” He does it because he knows the truth is not on his side. He knows he can’t win with the truth, and so he does the only thing he can- lie. Repeatedly. Shamelessly. And without remorse. He gets away with it because the Mainstream Media refuses to call him what he is- a liar.
7 Facts About Mitt Romney’s Economic Plan He Doesn’t Want You To Know: Because if Romney knows that if he acknowledges the truth, he doesn’t stand a snowball’s chance in Hell of being elected.
