Taking the lying to eleven:
During an interview with WEWS-TV in Cleveland following a campaign stop, Romney said his views helped save the [auto] industry.
“I pushed the idea of a managed bankruptcy,” Romney said. “And finally, when that was done, and help was given, the companies got back on their feet. So I’ll take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry’s come back.”
He pushed the idea that the government should not give any money to the auto industry, which would have led to their liquidation. Instead, General Motors now stands at 5th and Ford 9th on the Forbes Top 100 corporations.
He’s counting on white anti-Obama “progressives” to depress the vote enough to see him through to a win.
You can see this lining up now with them blaming Obama for no-gay-marriage, and also more generally blaming black folks for Amendment 1.
White anti-Obama “progressives” are republicans’ best friends in this race.
He’s counting on white anti-Obama “progressives” to depress the vote enough to see him through to a win.
I see you can’t go two weeks with out being an arsehole. Does it come that naturally to you?
I don’t know what that particular racial dynamic has to do with this issue. Clearly Romney is terrified of being held accountable for his auto industry stand, and he’s lying, knowing the media will probably give him a free pass and take that issue away from Obama.
As for white anti-obama progressives, I’m seeing that crowd starting to fade. You mainly find them on certain other web sites where they have managed to find each other.
Looking at the trend just in the last couple of weeks, Mitt has been joined by every single GOP pundit to take lying from a mostly reaction to triple down lying. Just add up the blatent, ridiculous, said with a straight faced lies that have been said in front of God and everyone and realize that is their new tactic.
There’s nothing new about that tactic. Not even the bit about taking it to eleven.
It’s gotten to the point when I’m surprised on the rare occasion that (1) someone calls them on their bullshit and (2) they don’t then immediately double-down on the dishonesty.
Yes this is new because it is a ramped up version that doesn’t give a rat’s as** about including even one token semi fact in their storylines. It’s an explosion of lies.
When I see this back-to-back with Paul Ryan shamelessly lying about the incontrovertible fact that he’s an Ayn Rand fanboy, I have to conclude they’d be the perfect all-bullshit ticket.
Your point is well taken Steve, but watch what you ask for. The perfect all-bs ticket may be just what the country wants.
I’ll be the first to admit I was wrong about the auto-bailout.
A reader from TPM puts it like this:
I don’t know about smugness. I was against it because I thought it would backfire spectacularly. Not because of some moral outrage. You know, like it has with the banks.
We know that the oil consumption problem really was driven in part by the car makers. The automakers did indeed put out years of garbage cars. I certainly didn’t and don’t have the money to buy a fuel efficient car. Nor did I live in a very walkable area. I thought it would be a corporate give-away and the companies would not or could not change to become competitive, and instead just suck money at the public teat.
I was wrong.
I was driving a toyota for many years. I never wanted detroit to “suffer”, but I wasn’t really giving them much of a shot at my business due to the poor reliability I experienced with a Ford Escort in the 1990’s.
But recently I bought a new Ford Focus hatchback, and I am loving it. Union-built in Michigan, and drives like a little luxury car. Has all the toys and great suspension for 10k less than the luxury brands.
I did support the bailout at the time, but not enthusiastically. Now I can thank that bailout for this cool car being available when I was looking.
I think too often in American culture in the last twenty years or so all of us have not valued American workers and products enough. It became part of the culture, a sort of self-defeating nihilism. I’m hoping that’s starting to change.
Romney is getting HUGE blowback about this on yahoo finance which is normally well-stoked with wingnuts.
Of course some birthers chimed in in Romney’s defense, but the bankruptcy-bailout seems to be hugely popular and even Republicans know Romney was against it.
Ideology takes a back seat to the brokerage statement.