OMG LOL Romney Campaign totally unable to back up their candidate’s claim against Obama RE: Military

[SunsetDreams]

The Romney campaign is totally unable to back up their candidate’s claim:

Romney’s spokesman, Ryan Williams, in an interview Saturday could point to no place in Obama’s lawsuit that seeks to restrict the rights of military voters…

Romney’s legal counsel, Katie Biber, said creating two separate classes of Ohio voters does not violate the 14th Amendment, though she also did not offer evidence that Obama’s lawsuit would make it tougher for members of the military to vote…

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/08/04/640491/romney-smears-obama-falsely-claims-he-filed-lawsuit-to-restrict-military-voting-in-ohio/

See my two previous OP's here

SNOPES Fact Check Romney Claim "Obama Restricting Military Voting in Ohio" FALSE
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021073570

Beware: Romney and The Right's New Lie: Obama Suing to Keep Soldiers from Voting (Update)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021073202



Romocchio running for Liar In Chief has been called out by his own campaign!

[NYC_SKP]

1. Nutshell: Obama wants to extend ALL voters the same 3 days that the military have, right?

Not mess at all with the military, just expand everyone else's ability to vote.

I have a very short attention span and need concise explanations.

K/R and thanks.

[Canuckistanian]

3. Right, military voters ARE NOT, I repeat, NOT affected in any way by this

And they know damn well military voters aren't.

They've been caught lying big time. And the media is noticing this time.

[savannah43]

32. Putting two and two together: The media is corporate owned.

Mittens is their nominee. They have just discovered that, unlike Nixon, Mittens is too inept to tell a decent lie and get away with it. He is too self-important to back off or admit he was wrong. Therefore, the corporates must dump him in favor of a better GOP liar. What is quite funny to me is that they didn't see this coming. Those Tea-Baggers MUST be driving the train in GOP-ville. The lack of intelligence over there is becoming quite apparent. They seem to have mistaken bullying for smarts.

[xtraxritical]

33. I think they'll nominate Speaker Bohner and Rmoney will endorse him.

a flip and a flop...

[elzenmahn]

38. He's been their nominee for a while...

...remember the Time Magazine cover from over one year ago, showing Mitt as a Mormon missionary, (shirt/tie and all), and asking if the country was ready for a Mormon president? MSM has been in the tank for the Mittwitt for a long time...

I'm getting ready to place bets on who they'll replace the MittWitt with at the convention - perhaps they'll get on bended knees and beg for Crispy Creme Christie? I can see him waddling up to the podium, unvetted by the Democrats, accepting the nomination. With Marco Rubio or Paul Ryan as the fire-throwing veep nominee.
I think it's entirely possible now. My advice to the Repub convention planners - double-check the support columns under the stage and the podium.

[elleng]

4. Right, SKP.

This issue has confused a few today, here and outside. Demands a clear explanation from Dems. Its OHIO that's STILL trying to hinder voting opportunities for many.

[NYC_SKP]

6. Thanks. RW will point at a cow and call it a zebra...

...or an airplane.

[elleng]

7. Coitenly!

And ohio/kasich will agree.

[SunsetDreams]

11. ha ha ha

so true!

[klook]

22. "What's the big deal?

It's just some zebras. Or maybe airplanes."

[malaise]

2. Willard Rmoney is a pathological LIAR

and a deeply secretive man - he's dangerous

[freshwest]

14. Like Nixon, but worse.

[mwb970]

36. I'm smelling Nixon with top notes of Palin. /nt

[mucifer]

5. Question is how much will the msm cover this? Lots of the military watch fox news.

Unless the press decides to cover this, thinkprogress isn't enough. I mean I'm very glad they exist. I just wish the msm was more honest.

[elleng]

9. 'The military' may very well understand it;

its 'others' who won't.

[RedStateLiberal]

10. ABC has picked it up

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/08/romney-says-obama-lawsuit-blocks-ohio-military-voters/

That's the highest profile source I've seen give this coverage so far.

This needs to get out there. It's so obviously false that people may get upset that Romney is using the military with this lie.

[ThoughtCriminal]

24. Typical "He said, they say" coverage - nt

[jmowreader]

8. Romney's got a two-fold problem here

The claim Romney made that Obama is trying to disenfranchise military voters, can't be backed up.

But the claim the Senate majority leader made that Romney hasn't paid income tax for the last decade, can.

[SaveAmerica]

12. this might backfire, lots of miltary voting Obama

An article i read in Columbia SC newspaper (home of ft. Jackson and Boot Camp) said that veterans and military are war weary and supporting Obama. So I say let them vote early.

Don't have a way to link to the article.

It's also a myth that the military goes Republican. Anyway this is just a way to distract from the tax filing thing Romney doesn't want America to talk about.

[freshwest]

13. The GOP claims they will win because of voter ID laws, denying millions the right to vote.

Don't take the heat off these crooks.

[Voice for Peace]

18. this is their only trick, to accuse Obama of whatever they're doing themselves.

Next they will accuse him of not releasing enough tax returns, methinks.

[freshwest]

21. To be followed with, the Obamas aren't as rich as the Romneys, thus unqualified for office...

But those with half a brain or a heart will heed this quote from Obama, which many have lived by long before he said it:

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

~ Barack Obama

[progressoid]

15. He can't back up most of his claims.

But that won't stop him from making them.

[Mortos]

16. Republican Governor John Kasich took away people's right to vote 3 days early

as had been the law of the land with no problems prior to him taking office. His change left in place the ability for military members to continue to vote 3 days early but took away that right for regular citizens to do the same. The lawsuit asserts, among other things, that two classifications of voters (military and civilian) is unconstitutional and seeks to have the right restored to citizens that the military retained when the law was changed. It seeks to let everyone vote 3 days early, not to take away the right of military members to do so.

[Voice for Peace]

19. thanks!

[dollyD223]

17. the wing nuts have already taken this.........

and ran with it. On fb just now.......they are already quoting that fruitcake Allen West......who is "tearing into Obama".... The truth does not matter. the GOP is the party of lies.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=447798018594353&set=a.329387673768722.79973.305986132775543&type=1&ref=nf

[firenewt]

20. The photo proves what I've been saying all along - Romney is a dick"

[Warren Stupidity]

26. more precisely, a dick face.

[trof]

27. That looks amazingly like Nixon.

[DallasNE]

23. Odd Military Reasoning Presented

They correctly state that people in the military need more time to vote. But they then conclude that they oppose this suit because if it is ruled unconstitutional under equal protection clause that the State may choose to reduce the military time to what is available for civilians, never mind that that is exactly opposite of what the suit seeks. It is something the Ohio legislature could do just so they could say that Obama forced them to reduce the time people in the military have to vote.

Obviously, the GOP prefers the chaos of 2004 where 8 hour waiting lines happened in Democratic cities to the orderly election of 2008. With chaos Bush won but with an orderly election Obama won.

[cali]

25. They. Don't. Care.

And they're right not to. It'll leave a mark on Obama. The MSM won't do much of anything.

This is actually a problem, not something to make light of.

[Berlum]

28. The ongoing Republican lies are so undermining of American values

Sheesh.

[vlyons]

29. This is a really, really very stupid lie

There is no way in hell that Obama would EVER try to restrict the voting rights of the military. Obama has spent a lot of time courting the military vote, earning their respect, bringing them home from war FOR GOD'S SAKE, finding them jobs, supporting their families, etc. And that's not even counting all the effort that Michele Obama has put into supporting military families. I'll bet Joe Biden has something to say about this! Uncle Joe will be livid. Hope Joe burns Mitt's butt.

How could Romney make such a collasel blunder. Is this man such a narcissist that he just doesn't listen when someone tells him stuff, and just makes up stuff to fill in the blanks? Guess so. Romney is horrible candidate. Do you think the experienced GOP pols go home and vomit when they think about how awful Romney is?

[progressivebydesign]

30. Typical. I did post the snopes link on my FB page last night to preempt the onslaught.

I suggest everyone else do something similar. Truth is power.

[RedStateLiberal]

31. Yet the lying Romney FB post is STILL there.

http://www.facebook.com/mittromney/posts/10150981967501121

The vast majority of people commenting there are calling Mitt out for this blatant lie. The few Mittwits commenting have nothing but blind agreement, attempts to change the subject and stupid tirades on Obama.

How can the Romney campaign just leave this blatant lie as a pathetic attempt to influence people even after they cannot even give any examples of what Mitt Romney's page is accusing of Obama?

The Romney campaign has basically admitted that this is a lie.

This has to backfire on this dishonorable campaign so people see just how blatantly dishonest Rmoney truly is.

[Iliyah]

34. Mittens campaign is flinging shit

to see what effing sticks and thats why Pres O's campaign need to be constantly vigilant. Remember John Kerry the war hero? By the time Kerry's campaign realized the lies were sticking it was too late. Go figure since W avoided the Vietnam war just like Mittens, Cheney and a whole lot of W's cronies, BUT, they convinced enough voters in believing their lies.

Unfortunately, Pres O's campaign must be ahead of the bullshit game, severely & seriously.

[mwb970]

35. This jerk just gets worse and worse and worse and worse.

And it's only AUGUST! How much lower can he possibly sink? He is a terrible candidate, and a terrible man.

[tridim]

37. ..and free to live a life of religious fullfillment