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Lies From Romney's Past
Friday, May 18, 2012 3:58 PM
KWICKO
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)
Quote:Romney said in a 1978 interview with the Boston Herald, "My father and I marched with Martin Luther King Jr. through the streets of Detroit." It's a claim that he continued to make over the years, most notably during a 2007 interview on Meet the Press with the late Tim Russert. He said, "You can see what I believed and what my family believed by looking at our lives. My dad marched with Martin Luther King. My mom was a tireless crusader for civil rights." A few days after the appearance, The Boston Phoenix reported that they could not find any record of a march that featured both King and Romney. Romney has since walked back his statements, suggesting that when he said he "saw" his father march with King he meant it as a "figure of speech." Then there was Romney's hunting 'experience'. When speaking on gun rights in April of 2007, he declared, "I've been a hunter pretty much all my life." A few days later he backpedaled. "I'm not a big-game hunter," he said. "I've made that very clear. I've always been, if you will, a rodent and rabbit hunter. Small varmints, if you will. And I began when I was 15 or so and have hunted those kinds of varmints since then. More than two times." Romney has had other occasions of "misspeaking" in his many runs for office, including wrongfully saying that he received an endorsement from the National Rifle Association in 2002. These incidents could be indicative of a trend of misrepresentation from Romney, a trend that goes beyond typical political spin. If Romney can't escape the perception that he's disingenuous or even unprincipled it could seriously damage the likely GOP nominee in the general election. And with YouTube, Twitter and other social media tracking his every move -- it won't be easy to get away with white lies.
Friday, May 18, 2012 4:20 PM
6IXSTRINGJACK
Friday, May 18, 2012 5:41 PM
FREMDFIRMA
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Seriously man... I'm not saying it will be any better, but Romney is our next President.
Saturday, May 19, 2012 5:01 AM
NIKI2
Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...
Saturday, May 19, 2012 10:33 AM
Saturday, May 19, 2012 5:10 PM
Quote:Originally posted by FREMDFIRMA: Wanna bet ? The fix, ladies and gentlemen, is in - believe it. Not that this, yanno, IMPROVES matters any, but I'll take weak and corrupt any day over batshit-fuckin-crazy. -Frem
Saturday, May 19, 2012 6:27 PM
Quote: I admit, we really can't take 4 years of what Obama can accomplish when he doesn't need to worry about getting re-elected.
Saturday, May 19, 2012 10:48 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: And seriously, if you hate Romney so much, for reasons I'm not aware of, I respect that belief
Sunday, May 20, 2012 3:11 AM
GEEZER
Keep the Shiny side up
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