Who was the biggest liar last night? Gingrich or Romney?
January 27, 2012 in 2012 Elections
Romney wins by a landslide for having told the most whoppers. In other words, Romney is the biggest liar of them all by virtue of sheer volume.
- Romney lied about not voting for a Democrat if there was a Republican on the ballot — He voted for Paul Tsongas in a Democratic primary in 1992 in the same election where President George H.W. Bush faced Pat Buchanan. [SOURCE WIKI]
- He lied about telling us that he never said his Massachusetts health care plan was a model for the nation — the truth is that he’s often said it was.
- Romney claims that his great personal wealth is an asset to help America but he is not investing in America. He has millions in offshore tax havens. Such tax havens cost American taxpayers about $100 billion a year. [Source]
- Romney lied about saying that he would not kick all the illegal immigrants out of the country. He has more than once, even during this debate season, said that if he were elected that he not only would he kick them out, he would veto the Dream Act.
- Romney once again falsely accused Obama of saying “nothing” about the Palestinians launching rockets into Israel during a 2009 speech to the United Nations. [Here is a quote from Obama's 2009 address to the United Nations: "We must remember that the greatest price of this conflict is not paid by us. It’s not paid by politicians. It’s paid by the Israeli girl in Sderot who closes her eyes in fear that a rocket will take her life in the middle of the night. It’s paid for by the Palestinian boy in Gaza who has no clean water and no country to call his own."]
- Romney does not give a rat’s ass about the Latinos. He even tried to make it sound like his father was a Mexican last night LOL. Romney’s father was born in Chihuahua Mexico in 1907, the son of USA Mormon missionaries.
Note: In my opinion, no candidate can say out of one side of his mouth that he is for the Latino community and then out of the other side of his mouth say that he would veto the Dream Act if he were president. Under the Dream Act, young undocumented immigrants who have lived most of their lives in the United States and graduate from U.S. high schools would be eligible for a conditional six-year “path to citizenship” if they earn a college degree or serve two years in the military. Romney has said that he would veto this bill .
Another important point that the latinos of Florida especially should understand is that people migrate to other countries illegally under duress and in a matter of life and death for one of three main reasons: 1) war and/or the threat of a dictator such as Castro; 2) Unfair trade agreements that push people off their land such as NAFTA an unfair trade agreement that decimated the mexican corn farmers who could not compete with the heavily subsidized US agribusinesses such as ADM and Cargill; 3) Crop failure because of climate change. People should not be castigated for trying to survive.
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Thus, when it comes to volume, Romney wins. However, if the lie(s) are to be measured by magnitude + the depth of psychopathic calculation and intent to deliberately deceive victims, then Gingrich may hold the record for his lie that he balanced the budget
Yes Gingrich, with the assistance of a Republican Congress and Bill Clinton did balance the budget–on the backs of the working people of the USA. They “balanced” the budget by dipping into Social Security funds. [More details of that here.]
Of course, even Ron Paul left off the fact that while the majority of the working class pay Social Security tax on 100% of their income, the investor class don’t pay a dime of Social Security tax on amounts above $106,000 that they earn.
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Speaking of Mitt’s Pseudo Latino Father, Newt gets a black mark for missed opportunity last night. Newt Gingrich is tying the wrong person to Saul Alinsky in his bizarre attacks on Barack Obama. BuzzFeed found old pictures of George Romney meeting with Saul Alinsky to discuss the grievances of the urban black poor. [By the way, Saul Alinsky’s “crime” is helping the poor to organized their communities. Saul Alinsky has been compared to Thomas Paine as being “one of the great American leaders of the nonsocialist left.” MORE
Photos of Willard’s dad fraternizing with Saul Alinsky.
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One thing is certain: the tales of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox pale in comparison to the tales told on the campaign trail.
