Strawman -- and you're better than that, Charles.
Your daughter did not intentionally make four incorrect answers in order to deceive her teacher. (If she did, she was indeed being less than honest.)
There is no foundation, based on what we know of Romney, to accept that he is making an innocent mistake. And false analogies are almost as bad as the false moral equivalences that the more rabid Romney supporters constantly trot out. Please don't become one of them.
Actually, you have NO IDEA if my daughter purposely got those questions wrong.
But that’s OK, because your statement proves my point. You made an assumption, based on NO real evidence, and then asserted a claim based on that assumption.
Just as you do with Mitt when you PRESUME he must be lying, and use that to prove that he is lying. Since you have no idea what is in his head, you can’t possibly know. And you have no evidence of ANY statement he ever made refuting his claim, so you have NO evidence that he EVER knew it wasn’t true. Nor do you have ANY evidence whatsoever that he was EVER deliberately asserting a literal statement.
So what you really have is that you think he’s a liar, so if he makes a statement that isn’t true, it must be because he deliberately lied about it. And now you are asserting that his entire life he’s been a congenital liar, and that’s why in 1978 he lied.
you are simply proving what you asserted by assuming facts not in evidence.