Almost every statement of “fact” in the following petition — which the Romney campaign is circulating in Iowa, and which accuses the president of misleading Iowans — is a bald-faced lie:
But President Obama led us to four straight trillion-dollar-plus deficits and added more than $5 trillion to our national debt.
Every Iowan now owes over $50,000 in his or her share of this debt, a burden that will be passed on to our children and grandchildren.
We trusted President Obama, but he has let us down.
I support Mitt Romney because he has a comprehensive plan to lower taxes, reduce the size of government, and grow our economy. As president, he will cut spending, eliminate waste, repeal Obamacare, reform entitlements, and bring fiscal responsibility to the White House.
[full post at ABLC]
Nom de Plume
A better Romney story would be one of his advisors opining that Obama isn’t Anglo-Saxon enough.
ETA: I’m pretty sure even the lickspittle media isn’t supine enough to let this one pass. Pretty sure.
freelancer
Also, water is wet and conservatives are bigoted.
jwb
@Nom de Plume: Did you miss the the earlier thread?
Redshift
But without lies, he’d have nothing to say at all!
Oh, wait, that would actually be a good thing…
Nom de Plume
Did you miss the the earlier thread?
Evidently. But I still think it’s the better Romney story.
Another Halocene Human
So, it’s not just white supremacy, which I find despicable (and have been fuming about for weeks).
It’s fucking ENGLISH supremacy.
IT’S ON, ASSHOLE!!!!!
/yesimirishwhydoyouask?
El Cid
If we owe all this money to our grandchildren, well, that doesn’t sound too frightening. Let’s just resolve to tell them ‘no’ when they come to collect.
Another Halocene Human
So, I wonder if it makes me a terrible person if I react more when it’s my ox being gored? I mean, I do my bit to shame white supremacy out of existence, although the whole Trayvon thing really tried my patience. People I thought were halfway decent showed their racist colors. UGH. And I tried not to whine about it because I realize Black people have to live with sick shit like that their whole life. So even though I hate that shit I feel like if I complain too much about it it’s some sort of white whine and I should just shut up. And, you know, go on with my diverting and deflecting people when they start the “those people” rants or confronting them with (hello) facts.
But FUCK IT am I supposed to stay quiet when someone’s shitting on MY ethnic group? Yeah. Kick me out of the so-called dominant group. Toss me in the briar patch. I love it there. No more fear that I’m being a condescending privileged brat who thinks they’ve just discovered racism. English have been hating on my kind since, like, forever. That’s why we learned to fight back.
Norman Lord Romenel can take his British-Israelite shit back to Provo. I hear it plays well there.
Another Halocene Human
Also, too, is there a reason Mormons are hyper-racists? Are they just stuck in a time bubble or was it another way to maintain control over the restless, hungry Mormon masses? I mean, most of those weird 19th century sex cults broke up, knownsayin’, and they ain’t comin’ back for the reunion tour. The Oneida clan is just a silverware setting today.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
It’s all he’s got. ALmost funny, actually, Romney seems to know lies, demagoguery and barely disguised racism are a stronger platform than what he actually intends to do (cut taxes and deregulate Wall St). Almost funny, because…
I’ll be surprised if this is more than a passing story anywhere but MSNBC. It seems to have become and article of faith among the Village that criticizing Bain is no different than the Swift Boaters, and Joe Klein actually compared the Bain ads to Willie Horton. He hasn’t been called out for it, and he’s probably quite proud of his bold truth-telling.
mdblanche
Romney can’t quit lyin’ Somebody’s planted a bomb on his campaign bus and if he drops below telling 50 lies per hour, it’s set to explode.
Joey Maloney
Quit comin’ in, tide.
Dennis SGMM
That sounded just peachy to me so I went to Romney’s web site to get the details. He does have a plan to cut taxes, oh yes. He especially wants to cut taxes on people just like him. He even provides numbers.
OTOH, his “plan” for reducing the size of the government seems non-existent. The only thing that I could find states that Mitt wants government to be “…smaller, smarter, simpler…”
Tell us exactly how you plan to achieve that sort of government, Mitt. Or is that, like your tax returns, something that you’ve already told us as much as we deserve to know?
karen
@El Cid:
So in order to help out our grandchildren, as you say, you think it’s ok for us to starve instead. Gotcha.
karen
@Another Halocene Human:
They thought black people were Satan spawn until the 70s. The NINETEEN SEVENTIES.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@karen: Black skin is the Curse of Cain.
Patricia Kayden
The Obama campaign needs to send out a petition re Romneybot 2.0.
Talk about his plan to lower taxes for himself and his richy rich rich buddies.
Talk about his plan to overturn Roe v. Wade by nominating extreme Rightwingers for the Supreme Court.
Talk about his plan to deregulate business so that more Enrons can happen.
Talk about his plan to support the Ryan Budget plan and Blunt amendment.
Come on President Obama/Dems — fight fire with fire.