Posted on 12/20/2007 4:16:22 PM PST by Josh Painter
I think Romney is not only a congenital liar, but a poor one. A good liar keeps it simple, but Romney seems to have this compelling need to over-embellish and add unnecessary detail that makes it easier to expose the lie.
In this latest incident, he could have simply said that he remembered seeing his father march for civil rights in the 60's. But he had to go and embellish it to bring Martin Luther King's name into it, claiming that he saw something he didn't. Now he and his campaign are stuck trying to spin away a false detail that was completely unnecessary for him to have added in the first place.
Mind you, I'd be cutting him more slack if this was an off-the-cuff statement he made. But it wasn't -- it was planned and put into a long-drafted playing of the victim card speech.
piss·ant also piss-ant (psnt) Slang
n.
1. One that is insignificant.
“a candidate who hasn’t exhausted his upside potential” translation: “has been at 1% in the polls for a year”
Enjoy the fall. Look for a soft landing if possible.
That’s a great one!
I just donated to a political candidate for the first time since 2000. Go Fred GO!
It really doesn’t, the Fred was on top but has dropped steadily every since. I think he is now past the point of no return.
Duncan has been looked past all alon because folks have said “Buy he can’t win” “Nobody knows him.” etc.
Now that Fred’s campaign is all but over, I just think it would be smart to try to invigorate the one true full pedigree Republican in the race and see if with a significant (2 digit) number behind his name he might not catch fire with the general public.
It is frustrating that Duncan hasn’t garnered the support we have hoped for. However if you want the one person in the race who could possibly stop Huckabee, then you are looking at Duncan Hunter.
My opinion is that if Hunter doesn’t somehow catch a flame (I realize I may be hoping against hope (No Pun Intended)) Huckabee is a lock for the nomination and most likely the White House.
That may be true to some people, but does it make it right?
You’re absolutely right. Romney supporters keep trying to write this story off with the strawman argument that George Romney really was a civil rights advocate.
But that makes Mitt Romney’s lie *worse* — because all he had to say was that his father marched on behalf of MLK. The fact that he had to lie and say he “saw” his dad march “with” MLK is pathetic. The fact that he went through a series of evasions on this when questioned, ultimately resorting to what the definition of “is” is, is ridiculous. And the fact that this is just the latest in a long series of these incidents rules him out for me completely.
They don’t have access to what Fred plans to DO with his money, do they? They just sound like they want to dismiss him as a viable candidate.
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