Romney: Campaigns shouldn’t run ads that fact-checkers say are false

[maddezmom]

Romney: Campaigns shouldn’t run ads that fact-checkers say are false
By Greg Sargent
Yes, Mitt Romney really said this:

“You know, in the past, when people pointed out that something was inaccurate, why, campaigns pulled the ad,” Romney said on the radio. “They were embarrassed. Today, they just blast ahead. You know, the various fact checkers look at some of these charges in the Obama ads and they say that they’re wrong, and inaccurate, and yet he just keeps on running them.”

I sympathize with Romney’s plight. I’ve said that the Priorities USA ad suggesting Bain is to blame for the steelworker’s wife goes too far. I agree that the Obama ad labeling him as an “outsourcer in chief” was false. It was unfair and misleading of Dems to quote Romney this way: “I like being able to fire people.”

And yet it remains puzzling that Romney would go here. After all, fact checkers have called out his ads as wrong, inaccurate, misleading or false again and again and again and again and again and again and again. If Romney pulled any of those ads, I’m not aware of it.

Many of Romney’s main attack lines been panned by the fact checkers. As the above links demonstrate, many of his ads have been based on complete distortions of what Obama has said or proposed, whether we’re talking about the “didn’t build that” ads, the “it worked” spot, or the latest ad claiming Obama wants to send “welfare checks” to those who don’t work.

more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/romney-campaigns-shouldnt-run-ads-that-fact-checkers-say-are-false/2012/08/09/abe6ca4a-e24c-11e1-a25e-15067bb31849_blog.html

[gordianot]

1. Yes and foxes in the chicken house will not eat chickens.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

2. He meant to say, "Obama's campaign shouldn’t run ads that fact-checkers say are false"

He's rich, he can do as he pleases.

[phantom power]

3. Hey Washington Post, you know why Willard "would go there?"

Because for the last 30 years you MSM jerk-offs have been allowing the GOP to get away with making shit up about Democrats with total impunity. I'm guessing this double standard has been going on for so long now that the GOP has started to actually forget it's a double standard, and that they engineered it that way.

[DCKit]

4. Romney will keep lying, as long as it appears to be working.

What I don't think they get is the slow trickle of voters they're losing every single day. There hasn't been a sharp, dramatic drop in their numbers, so they don't get the cause and effect. The attrition is probably being blamed on anything but their negative, lying ads, statements and press releases.

That said, the MSM and the pollsters have been propping the zombie Romney campaign up by whatever means necessary. They are complicit. I doubt that even people within the campaign know what the real numbers are anymore. However, as in 2008, President Obama is going to have to win by a large margin, just to walk away with a squeaker. Election fraud is a reality, and the GOP have a whole bag of tricks they've been perfecting for decades - and enough Supremes to pull it out at the last minute, if necessary.