Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
I told you about this earlier this week. The lies of Willard 'Mittens' Romney are growing tiresome – Part 2.
For weeks, one of the driving messages of Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign has been that President Obama made the economy worse, not better. The argument is a demonstrable lie, but Romney has repeated it over and over again anyway. Political Animal – Dems hit Romney for comical flip-flop:
Yesterday, asked to defend his bogus claim, Romney flip-flopped: “I didn’t say that things are worse.”
Jamelle Bouie had a good take on this:
Compared to this, Michele Bachmann’s John Quincy Adams gaffe isn’t even worth a mention. Not only did Romney lie about Obama’s handling of the economy, but then — once caught in the lie — he lied again. What’s more, he backed down from the core message of his campaign, and ceded a tremendous amount of ground to the president. For the front-runner in a presidential nomination contest, it’s an extremely amateur performance.
Well said. Lying about lying, on camera, isn’t just foolish, it’s amateurish. Lying about lying on the campaign’s central economic argument offers a reminder that Mitt Romney probably isn’t quite ready for prime time.
The DNC is pouncing on Romney’s flip-flop, and unveiled this video this afternoon.
DNC Communications Director Brad Woodhouse said in a statement, “The fact is that Mitt Romney was plain wrong on the economy, and instead of admitting it, he is compounding the problem by making another ridiculously false statement. Mitt Romney has a well-deserved reputation for flip-flopping and misleading voters about his previous statements and positions – but this really takes the cake. Not only can you not count on Mitt Romney to stand by what he said in the last campaign or in the last year — you literally can’t count on him to stand by what he said in the same week. The only question now is: what will Mitt Romney say tomorrow?”
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I think people are too hard on Mitt Romney. He’s a liberal politician from Massachusetts, and you want honesty? Give the guy a break! If you want consistency, then compare what he says while talking to the SAME crowd. It’s unfair to expect him to say the same thing to dramatically DIFFERENT crowds, because he varies his stances to match what each different group wants to hear. It’s called being a FLEXIBLE leader.
It almost seems that people want his positions to flow from from some sense of morality or underlying philosophy of government. Romney is not bound by those kinds of limitations. He’s a candidate who LISTENS to the people, then chooses the ideas that seem most POPULAR at the moment.
It’s ridiculous to look to Romney for character, honesty, consistency, morality, or wisdom. He’s not Ron Paul, you know!