ROMNEY THE LIAR CLAIMS THAT HE WAS "OUTSPENT" (!) IN SOUTH CAROLINA

I keep tellin' ya folks, there is NO lie that Willard will not tell. NONE. Why did he lose in South Carolina 10 days ago? This is his astonishing falsehood:

"You know, in South Carolina we were vastly outspent with negative ads attacking me and we stood back and spoke [lied] about President Obama and suffered the consequence of that," Romney told reporters outside his Tampa campaign headquarters. "Plus also I think some good debates from Speaker Gingrich. we came to Florida and Speaker Gingrich didn't have two good debates, I did." 

Independent analyses show that Romney's campaign and associated super PAC spent nearly double what Gingrich's forces did in the state. Romney's spokeswomen did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the former Massachusetts governor's statement.

Amazing arrogance! Willard not only lies, he lies about things that can be easily checked. Unreal. Next, he'll be claiming that he waged a positive campaign in Florida. By the way, an analysis of Willard's thousands and thousands of ads in the Sunshine State shows that NINETY-NINE PER CENT of them were NEGATIVE. This will be Mittens' tactic if he faces Obama: throw a continuous stream of dishonest filth at him, and try to gain the White House through sheer gutter level lies. 

We have been warned.

DEBUNKING ROMNEY THE LIAR'S "JOB CREATOR" LIES

The New York Times did a brief fact-checking article, right here, about Willard's dubious claims concerning his "job creating" abilities from his days at Bain Vulture Capital. You see, Willard has regularly given different figures about this--10,000, or 100,000, or (more recently) 120,000. The Times sets the record straight:

Mr. Romney arrives at the 100,000 jobs number by combining the current employment figures of three main companies that Bain Capital invested in – Staples, Sports Authority, and Domino’s Pizza. (He sometimes also includes a fourth company, Steel Dynamics). However, that number only addresses a small group of companies that Mr. Romney was successful in starting or turning around, and does not take into account the less successful companies that Bain Capital invested in, some of which went bankrupt or were forced to layoff workers. It is also worth noting that Bain Capital was not a major investor in any of the four companies that Mr. Romney cites. [Emphasis added]

In fact, in the case of Romney's biggest boast, the success of Staples office supplies, Bain wasn't even a major player. Bain only provided TEN PER CENT of the start-up money for Staples. 

In fact, this is how Willard used to describe his role: 

[During the 1994 Senate campaign Romney] emphasized that he always used the word "helped" and didn’t take full credit for the jobs. "That’s why I’m always very careful to use the words ‘help create,' " he acknowledged. "Bain Capital, or Mitt Romney, ‘helped create’ over 10,000 jobs. I don’t take credit for the jobs at Staples. I helped create the jobs at Staples."

But now Willard is the Glorious Job Creator, the Man Who Will Slay the Recession, our deliverer from joblessness--even though the private sector has added more net jobs under Obama since June 2009 than Bush achieved in eight years. Romney's main claim to office is his business "expertise"--as if being a CEO is somehow comparable to being president. In my opinion, Willard has grossly inflated his so-called "expertise".

He does it by lying about his record.

WHY YES, ROMNEY DOES LIE CONSTANTLY. NO, HE HAS NO "CHARACTER"

Jonathan Chait has the goods right here:

These are just a couple of examples plucked from the last day of campaigning. There is an endless supply, large and small. Romney’s whole line of attack against Obama rests upon facts that are verifiably false. His main foreign policy indictment is a lie that Obama went around the world apologizing for the United States – this is the basis for his slogan that he "believes in America," as well as the title of his campaign book, No Apology. His domestic indictment of Obama rests upon his ludicrous claims that Obama "has no jobs plan" and his repeated, specific assertion that Obama wants to create full equality of outcome. 

Even by the standards of politicians, Romney seems unusually prone to dishonesty. Again, you can ascribe this to circumstance rather than character. I see him as a patrician pol, like George H.W. Bush, who believes deeply in public service but regards elections as a cynical process of pandering to rubes. I think you can plausibly make other interpretations, and you can separate Romney the man or even Romney the president from Romney the candidate. But I don’t see how you can paint Romney the candidate as in any way scrupulous about the truth in any form.

I have to disagree with the idea that Romney "believes deeply in public service". I believe Romney believes deeply in the success and advancement of Mitt Romney, period. I am almost 60. I've been following politics since I was 12. I have NEVER seen a more shameless, brazen liar than Mitt Romney, and I remember Richard Nixon. Character? What "character", exactly, does a man like Romney possess? I can't find any at all. To lie as consistently and incessantly as Romney does is a mark, as I have said, of sheer sociopathy. Romney sees other humans as a means to an end. He is for Mitt Romney only. To trust a man of such BONE DEEP dishonesty is impossible. To put such a man in power would be unthinkable.

And that friends, is the truth.

ROMNEY THE LIAR LIES AGAIN AND AGAIN ABOUT OBAMA AND ROCKET ATTACKS ON ISRAEL

When you're an unprincipled, amoral, sociopath like Willard, you lie constantly to get your way. One of Willard's most egregious lies has to do with President Obama's supposed "failure" to condemn Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel. Daniel Larison has the story here:


During the last debate, Romney repeated one of his standard criticisms of Obama on Israel and Palestine: 


This president went before the United Nations and castigated Israel for building settlements. He said nothing about thousands of rockets being rained in on Israel from the Gaza Strip. 


This is one of Romney’s favorites. He has been using a variant of this line for years. The problem for Romney is that it was never really true, and Obama has mentioned rocket attacks from Gaza in every address to the U.N. that he has given. [Emphasis added.]


If we go back to Obama’s first address to the U.N., which is what Romney has been referring to for more than two years, we will find a reference to rocket attacks on Israel: 


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. 


If we want to be very technical and generous to Romney, we could say that it’s true that Obama did not mention the number of rocket attacks, but that’s not the point. Romney wants people to think that Obama simply ignores these attacks all together, and that is not true. 


The 2010 U.N. address contained the most explicit references: 


And efforts to threaten or kill Israelis will do nothing to help the Palestinian people. The slaughter of innocent Israelis is not resistance — it’s injustice. And make no mistake: The courage of a man like President Abbas, who stands up for his people in front of the world under very difficult circumstances, is far greater than those who fire rockets at innocent women and children.


Face it, folks. Willard Mitt Romney is a pathological liar who will say ANYTHING to advance his cause. His lying accusation against Obama on the subject of rocket attacks is yet another example of his gutter-level campaign style. We must work TIRELESSLY to expose Willard for what he is--an out and out lying fraud.

ROMNEY THE LIAR (ACCURATELY) SAVAGED IN NEW AD

By none other than the Bloated Amphibian, AKA Newt Gingrich. Every claim in the ad is irrefutably true, BTW. 'Tis a thing of beauty.

 

ROMNEY THE LIAR CLAIMS HE PAYS A 50%(!) TAX RATE

Man, Willard really does think people are stupid, doesn't he? Now he's claiming that because he donates a lot to charity (even though the bulk of his giving is to his own Mormon Church, and not charitable institutions) that this constitutes "giving back to the community" comparable to being taxed at 40% (even though his 15% rate and 15% in charitable and church giving equals 30%). In addition, he says much of his compensation was originally taxed at the corporate rate of 35%, so it's just as if he were paying HALF of his income in taxes.

Except that he's lying.

...he's saying that thanks to the nominal corporate tax rate of 35 percent, he's actually paying 50 percent in taxes when you add in his 15 percent. Now, if he really believed that he was paying 50 percent in taxes, he wouldn't have said he gives back 40 percent to the community—he'd have said he gives back 75 percent. But he doesn't really believe what he's saying ... because it is patently absurd. 

Paul Krugman has an excellent dismantling of the case Romney is trying to make regarding corporate taxes. First, because most of Romney's capital gains income comes by way of carried interest, it was never previously taxed at 35 percent. Second, almost no companies actually pay the nominal corporate tax rate. Third, even if it were fair to say that the income had previously been taxed at 35 percent rate, conservatives have long argued that corporate taxes come at the expense of worker's wages. Now, suddenly, they are saying it comes at the expensive of investors? Talk about double-counting!

Willard, I think you're lying to us.

Again.

ROMNEY THE LIAR FALSELY CLAIMS OBAMA INCREASED THE CORPORATE TAX RATE

Is there ANYTHING Willard WON'T lie about? Now this shameless, incorrigible liar is claiming that President Obama raised the corporate income tax rate.

Uh, except he didn't:  

The only problem with Mitt Romney's fact check of President Barack Obama after his State of the Union address was that the Republican presidential candidate used "facts" that weren't true.

Romney accused Obama of raising corporate tax rates during his presidency, something that Obama has not actually done, as Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo first noted. Romney also claimed that Obama had lifted some of his ideas from Republicans -- including lowering taxes on corporations.

"Well, in some respects, I have to compliment the president on adopting a whole series of ideas that I've been speaking about for the last several years," Romney told NBC after the Tuesday night speech, according to UPI. "If you want to get the economy going, lower corporate tax rates -- of course, he's raised them." 

But experts say that Obama has advocated for lowering the top marginal corporate tax rate, if anything. Since 1993, it has held steady at 35 percent. In 2010, the U.S. had the second-highest top marginal corporate tax rate of any member nation of the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (after Japan), according to the group.

Again, the news report is saying that Romney is "wrong", as if he's made some kind of honest mistake. He wasn't "wrong".

HE WAS LYING.