Mitt Romney is a Lying Liar

Posted on June 15, 2012 at 11:21 am by Bob Cesca

I’m sure this will appear in Benen’s mendacity post today, but here’s an advance look via a Sullivan reader who watched Romney’s Cincinnati speech yesterday.

I was startled while watching Romney’s remarks in Cincinnati an hour and a half ago to see him repeat the lie that President Obama has not signed any trade agreements. He even specifically criticized Obama for not pursuing agreements with Latin American countries. A quick Google search of “Obama administration trade agreements” by his speechwriter would have yielded several articles from this past October, including this one, which note the three trade bills Obama signed, of which two were Latin American. These were signed while he was campaigning in the primary! How does nobody on his staff remember this?!

Again, this is the strategy. It’s not an oversight. It’s deliberate. His voters will believe it and the press won’t challenge him on it. Case closed. Romney will say anything and lie about anything to get elected.

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  • gescove

    The most troubling part: “… and the press won’t challenge him on it.” How far the press has fallen. From something considered so vital to the proper functioning of a democracy that it is explicitly protected by the Constitution to a gaggle of corporate-owned hacks and propagandists that I oftentimes wish was explicitly banned by the Constitution.

  • missliberties

    I am waiting for Norm Ornstein’s much needed interview on Meet the Press.

    Come on press, do your job.

    Mitt is just counting on making the people that already hated Obama hate him more.

    This assertion that Obama’s policies have failed is missing something. Most of Obama’s policies have been obstructed by the GOP. But I guess that sounds like whiney complaining.

    The key, in my view, is to get the Democrats and progressives to stand in unison behind one piece of legislation, that is paid for, that Governors and mayors of cities would love to have enacted. The American Jobs Act.

  • mzmijewski

    How many lies has Mitt told since he started campaigning for the nomination?

  • RS Janes

    Romney has learned so much from Goebbels and Rove: 1.) keep repeating the Big Lies and, eventually, everyone will believe them; 2.) keep smearing your opponent, no matter how outlandish the smear, and, eventually, enough people will believe it to give you 51 percent of the vote because they have heard something repeated so often it must be true. (Of course, in Rove’s case, he never did nail down 51 percent of the vote in 2000 or 2004 — he needed help from the Supreme Court and Bush campaign crooks to win.)

  • http://profiles.google.com/rollotamasi13 Rollo Tamasi

    In regards to Romney’s unprecedented campaign of dishonesty, let’s stop suggesting the press is incompetent. They’re not being duped. It’s not that the press is more interested in gaffes. It’s not that they’re too lazy to fact check. It’s not that there afraid of being called the liberal media.

    Let’s just be honest and say they are complicit. The Beltway press in particular hates Obama.

    Would the press let Obama get away with running the campaign that Romney is running?

    We all know the answer to that question.

    The answer to that is all you need to know in order to explain the MSM’s treatment of Mitt the Mendacious.