Me thinketh Queen Ann hast told a lie. Like her husband, perhaps it is pathological?
As I watch and learn more about the Romneys I am shocked at how often they lie. Gentle people will call it a flip-flop but, no, it is a lie. There are times when you do change your mind and actually change the actual focus of your goals and work. That is not what I am talking about. That is a true change of course and that is part of growing and learning.
But then there are times when you just say whatever to appease whoever. You know, 'cause you are a liar. Some people lie so much they can't stop and they begin to lie about everything for no reason. Pathological liars lie in many ways.
There are lies of omission, of course, where you just leave stuff out. I do this with my mom so she doesn't worry to much. Ann Romney did it when, during her speech, she talked about the Romney Struggle. In her speech that struggle was terrible. A basement apartment with nothing to eat but an old can of tuna. SO gross. Her lie here is that, while telling the same story in 1994 to the Boston Globe, she talked about the "Romney Struggle" (My quotations, cause I am coining a term--even if just for my own enjoyment) and it included that basement apartment and a can of tuna fish, and their terrible, terrible financial situation that, and I quote, "Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time.
“The stock came from Mitt’s father. When he took over American Motors, the stock was worth nothing. But he invested Mitt’s birthday money year to year — it wasn’t much, a few thousand, but he put it into American Motors because he believed in himself. Five years later, stock that had been $6 a share was $96 and Mitt cashed it so we could live and pay for education." (simple math: "few thousand" =$3000 divided by $6=500 stocks x $96 = $48,000 worth of stocks that they struggled to live on for a few years...30 + years ago. I have seen online estimates that the stock was sold 16X the paid for value and in today's dollars it equals $375,000 )
So Queen Ann now lies by omission about their struggle. And, for her, it was probably very difficult to live on $375,000 so she probably feels she is telling the truth. Mitt told similar lies about the mansion in Paris he lived in. He pretty much said it was a terrible squat with no kitchen for him to use. Yeah, no kitchen for him to use because the chef who cooked for Romney was too busy using to. A lie? You choose.
But those lies were at least omission. Ann and Mitt both seem to lie when they have no reason to. It seems pathological and they can't help it.
Queen Ann has been asked all day about Clint Eastwood's crayz speech and she is sick of it. She was on ABC's "Good Morning America," and when asked about Eastwood's speech she said, "I frankly hadn’t given it much thought. I didn’t know he was coming on stage." (she gave many different answers to this question previously)
Excuse me? Ann did not know Eastwood was coming on stage? That he was speaking? Most of America knew by that point. I know this is a silly little thing. I mean, really, who cares. But it just an example of how both Romneys and Ryan alike can't open their mouths without the lies just rolling out of their mouth. They can't help it. They are so used to being rich and beyond reproach, that their lies have never had any type of ramifications. They can look you in the eye and lie right to your face because they feel it is fine for the to lie to "you people".
There is a saying a friend's grandmother used to say.
They lie because they don't know the truth.
Mitt and Ann are a perfect fit. They do not know the truth.
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and very unsettling.
To me, it is.
